Nicolas Ballet -
Shock Factory (588 pages)
This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement.https://www.intellectbooks.com/shock-factoryNow this is a tome that seems mandatory, although with a price tag as heavy as its content...
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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
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