Shock Factory

Foreword     Pascal Rousseau  Acknowledgements Introduction     Alternative Postmodernity     Graphical Perspectives     Cultural Registers and Industrial Themes     Artistic Hybridizations    Part I. The Last of England: Post-Industrial Trauma and a Tradition of Subversion  Chapter 1. Dystopia for Utopia  “Prolétariat & Industrie”: Marginality and Post-Industrial Change          Post-Industrial Context: Transformation of the Nature of Power          Irony and Industrial Détournements           Post-Industrial Zeitgeist and “Global Village”           Atomic Paranoia: The Post-Apocalyptic Iconography of the Nuclear Age           Survivalism, Paramilitary Decorum and the Fear of Death           Breakdown and Continuity of Post-Psychedelic Violence           Post-Beat Culture  Transgression and Destruction: An Aesthetic of Carnage          Post-Apocalyptic Perspectives and Junk Culture           Urban and Industrial Ruins: Dissidence of “Dark Romanticism”           Aesthetics of Destruction: Confrontational Attitudes and Visual Parasites           Bodily Mutilation: The “Industrial Disease”           Industrial Pain           Cultural Terrorism   Chapter 2. The Legacy of Modernity and Postmodern Challenges  Informed, Marginalized Generation         Culture Clash: A Diversity of Artistic Traditions Collides           Knowledge of Previous Movements and Experimental Shifts           Redefining the Avant-Garde in the Post-Modern Era                        Future Tense: Reinterpreting Futurism          Manifesto Culture           Rupture  L’Ordre par le Bruit: Constructivist and Suprematist Precedents          Influence of Propaganda           Constructive Destruction           “Mechanical Eye”: Organic Machine  Dadaist Offensive          Subversive Cabaret          The Dada Cyborg: Doubting the Man-Machine           Post-War Trauma and Prosthetic Men           The Duchampian Model of “Anti-Art”           Alternative Networks  Imaginary Surrealists          Dark Surrealism: Altered Reality           The “Uncanny” of a Mechanical Sexuality  Dreams Less Sweet: Surrealist Dreams  The Neo-Avant-Gardist Factory          “Fluxshoe”: Behavioural Experiments           Actionist Radicality           Post-Situationist Détournements    Part II Nothing Short of a Total War: Industrial Dissidence and Shock Tactics  Chapter 3. “Persuasion”: Burroughsian Strategies of Reversing Mind Control “Spread the Virus”: Electronic Revolution and Industrial Cut-Ups          Post-Industrial Biopolitics and Strategy of Recycling           The “Control Process” and Disruptive Advertising           Televisual Piracy           Bioelectronic Virus  Duty Experiment: Military and Civilian Scientific Experiments          Experimental Scientific Protocols and Torture           “War of Nerves”: Acoustic Warfare and Crowd Control Military Infiltration and Civilian Conditioning           Attacking and Hijacking Popular Culture   Chapter 4. Symphony for a Genocide: Industrial Music and Totalitarianism   Détournement of Trauma and Industrial Provocation          Death Factory: Dictatorship of the Mass Media and “Dark Situationism”           Paramilitary Fetishism and Transgressive Attitudes           Laboratory of Ambiguity           Industrial Anti-Fascism   Industrial Catharsis: Psychological Mechanisms and Cognitive Tests          Shock Impressions and Historical Boundaries           Overplaying Totalitarian Brutality           Human Atrocities: Countering the Inhuman  Industrial Excesses and Political Manipulation          (Re)discovering the Shoah           Fascination for the Historical Archive and the Effect of Complacency           Radicalization of a Political Scene           Fear of Cultural Disappearance  Chapter 5. “Suture Obsession”: Aestheticization of Horror  The Atrocity Exhibition: Anti-Psychiatric Interference and Tolerance Thresholds          Reflective Tradition of the Unbearable Image           Science of Perception: Psychiatric Perversion and Shock Treatment          “The Cathedral of Death”           True Gore: Fascination and Repulsion of the Unbearable Image           The Toilet Exhibition: Shared Trauma  Bleeding Images: Criminal Anxiety          The Manson Family/Jonestown: Sectarian Lure and Collective Suicide           Warped Portrait of a Serial Killer          Murderous Impulses and Creative Desires           Criminal Experience           Sex Crime Atrocities  Chapter 6. “Prostitution”: Sexual Reconfiguration and Industrial Feminism   White Souls in Black Suits: Pornographic Abuse and BDSM Subculture          “Degree Xerox” and Sexual Repression           Psychopathia Sexualis and the Fascination with Sexual Transgression           Sexual Discipline: Effects of Fetishization and Reconfiguration of Pain           Unusual Perversions: Bondage Subculture           Crash Biomechanical Sexual Mutation  Brutality as a Masquerade          Gender Relations Within the Movement          “Obsession”: Infiltration Tactics and Appropriation of the Female Body           “Alpha Females”: Violence and the Power of Gendered Deconstruction           Engaging the Industrial Male    Part 3 “Body and Soul”: Industrial Occulture  Chapter 7. Pagan Day: Occult Rituals and the Re-Enchantment of Reality  Third Esoteric Revival          (Revolutionary) Social Utopias of Magical Awakening           (Re)discovery of Occult and Artistic Practices  Crowleymass: Rehabilitated Contemporary Occultism          Magia Sexualis: Influence of a Magical System            Writing and the Language of the Occult          Astral Explorations and Queer Mysticism   Zos Kia Cultus: The Legacy of Austin Osman Spare          Sigils and Graphic Work           Automatic Drawings Under Spiritual Influence           The Alchemical “Whole”: Occult Androgyny and Hermetic Challenges  The Process: Sectarian Systems and Informal Satanism          “Psychedelic Fascism”: Influential Processes at the Margins           Transparency, Devotion and Overthrow of the Guru           Industrial Satanism            Demonic Possessions and Religious Reconfigurations  Modern Primitives: Neopaganism and Ritualized Body Modification          Wicca Tradition: Nature Worship           “The Orgastic Potency of the Primitives”: The Anthropological Turn           “Traces of the Sacred”: Marks of the Body and Mind    Conclusion           Authoritarian Reconfiguration and Cultural Assimilation           Extra-Planetary Village  Archives and Interviews  Bibliography