konkret was one of the most important left wing print media for 7 decades, edited by Hermann L. Gremliza since 1974 until his death in 2019. Under new editorship it recently stopped the print edition and went digital. We’re looking at its history and its chances of survival in a changed media landscape.
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The Association of Autonomous Astronauts (AAA), founded in 1995 with a symbolic balloon launch near Windsor Castle, was a radical, community-based experiment in space exploration and cultural resistance. Its 30th anniversary was marked in April 2025 at London’s MayDay Rooms, reflecting on the AAA’s legacy as an outernational network blending art, politics, music, and play. Through raves, three-sided football, and space-themed actions, the AAA critiqued corporate, military, and elite control of space—concerns that feel strikingly relevant amid today’s commercialization and militarization of space travel. Report by Neil Transpontine
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“The Most Dangerous Game” was the title of an exhibition in 2018 about the Situationist International and it’s “way to May 68” in Berlin. It was the latest in a long development in the historicisation of the group. Founded in 1957 it is seen by some as the “Last Avantgarde”, an art movement that abandoned art for revolutionary action and served as inspiration if not instigation of the May 1968 events in Paris and elsewhere. This leads to contradictions between mainstream historicisation and attempts at situating it in its real anti-political context and a re-radicalisation of its content.
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A deeply personal tribute to Ian Miley, aka Blackmass Plastics—an uncompromising underground artist, DJ, and friend. Tracing his life from his teens through rave culture, free parties, Teknivals, and decades of fiercely original music-making, it portrays a restless, curious, and principled figure. Despite severe illness and physical decline, Ian’s creative drive never dimmed, expanding into synthesisers, sculpture, and design. His music—dark, stripped-back, and purposeful—remained rooted in the original rave spirit. He lived and created without compromise: a true underground soldier. Obituary by The Reverend
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Compact is a far right magazine which appears in print on a monthly basis since 2010. They also produce daily online and video content. By summer 2024 Compact was the far right medium with the largest reach in Germany. It was founded and is edited by former leftist activist and journalist Jürgen Elsässer. In June 2024 the Interior Minister took the unusual step to ban the media organisation. A year later the highest court has decided to lift the ban.
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The closing text of Break/Flow 2 is an experiment in theoretical fiction that attempts to summarise some of the themes that preceded it: namely voluntary servitude as it coincides with sado-masochism. This latter is rendered as a metaphor for capitalist social relations, their criticism and transformation.
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This speculative text from Break/Flow 2 discusses notions of the unconscious as a dialectical dynamic to be embraced rather than as a forbidden zone to be feared. This latter, propagated in part by Freud, leads to a self-censorship that curtails the auto-theorisation that ensues from creative and political engagement. Music eventually comes to figure as that which frees-us-up.
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A number of factors led me to read this novel. Not least was Félix Guattari offering that to read À la recherche is more worthwhile than to read all the works of Freud. He wasn’t wrong as this novel, seen as the apex of the Haute-Bourgeois, turned out to be not only a decimation of that class, but an affective tour-de-force in which listening to music is a central and organising theme throughout all its pages.
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This text was written to give due to Factory records and their influence on the many music
scenes that followed (not least ‘electronic dance music’). It also aimed to ensure that its cultural and political force was remembered as being drawn from the orbit of The Situationist International. What followed was the post-punk revival and the return of Factory as farce, but nonetheless it is remembered as an ‘anti-university’ by some.