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Author:   Nicolas Ballet
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Weight:   1.243kg
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9781835950784

ISBN 10:   1835950787
Pages:   588
Publication Date:   13 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

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   

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""A history of industrial music needed to be written. Nicolas Ballet has accomplished this. Thoroughly. This is the book's greatest strength. It explore the significance of noise as a reflection of a world in decay and screaming as a need. And doing it so it reveals a significant connection between industrial music and contemporary art. This is also what makes it an essential book: its contribution to dismantling categories and rethinking history from mixed creative territories."" -- David G. Torres, art critic

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Nicolas Ballet is an art historian and assistant curator in the New Media Department of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. He is the author of books and articles exploring the visual and sonic contributions of countercultures and experimental artistic practices. In 2023, he curated the exhibition “Who You Staring At?"" Visual Culture of the No Wave Scene in the 1970s and 1980s at the Centre Pompidou. He is currently leading a research project for the Centre Pompidou on pro-sex perspectives in art, from the 1960s to the present day.

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