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  1. The earliest possible documentation of performed "Breakcore"

    Wotcher, "Breakcore" is a marketing or cultural-affiliation term in high post-Fordist capitalism related to the recapitulation of "music" following the lines of Venetian Snares, Bloodyfist (Newcastle), or in some modalities Aphex Twin. It is a high modernist or post-modernist music reliant on...

  2. What if Yul Brynner starred in the Grand Guignol ABBA Cold War Opera: Chess

    One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble. I can feel the devil walking up on me. Historically ABBA's remnants created a Synth Pop opera "Chess." Chess was partly London, partly New York, partly Operettists, partly ABBA, partly Cold War, partly concept. Partly. Let us make it whole...

  3. Spain's revolution succeeds (c18/c19)

    I'm predominantly a c20 historian of labour history, and as a result incidentally of world-systems / imperialism. But Imperialism as a world-system chains back before the 20th century, and Sharpe's Rifles' episode one inspired this thought, as the two brother fight over Spain. Spain did have a...

  4. Let's play: Master and Servants, the salvation of the USSR in the Kyivian Божевільний замок sound

    Wotcher, As we all know, the 1970s and 1980s comprised a revolution in the culture of the Soviet Union. The unstoppable sound of the need for industry began in Kyiv, a home of Soviet Revolution, and was amplified by the Ramtha's School of Enlightenment's smuggling of MDMA into the Soviet...

  5. Stakhanovishchina fails

    ...Not the shitty new factories: they were predetermined by the loss of agricultural productivity and import substitution. What if fordist labour *discipline* failed? In the 1920s being an industrial worker in the Soviet Union was fairly fucking cushie as a job goes: the revolutions' go-slows...

  6. Vale: Stafford Beer, cybernetics war-criminal.

    Wotcher, *Anthony Stafford Beer was a British theorist, American consultant, US government figure, and war-criminal[disputed, see talk]. Hired by Henry Ford II, Beer pioneered a Whiz Kid series of reforms in Ford motor vehicle manufacture leading to what Nicholas Land[1] (U Chic. Cybernetics...

  7. Who'll play the indians? We'll let the gooks play the indians. John Company plays Vietnam.

    Wotcher comrades, As we know historically the UKGBNI state was forced by revolution at abroad and home to force the Windsor's enforcer into giving the subcontinent and its surrounds freedom to engage in imperialist genocide. What if they didn't? What if like the Soviet Union or the United...

  8. 1944: Soviet Halt

    What if the Soviet Union strategically halts their advances in order to politically discipline the Western Allies? We normally have discussions about Western Allied attempts to politically discipline the Soviet Union. Why don't we discuss the inverse. Obviously the timing would need to be of...

  9. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983). Malick dir.

    ...rape, victimisation and suicide as a means to conceal his own homosexuality makes the auto-sycophancy of this quote only the more telling. * * * It is normally the Christian religious films which cause controversy. But historically River Kwai, Merry Christmas, and Thin Red Line were…...

  10. 4 corners special report: What price for Sydney’s trams?
    Threadmarks: S01E01 Credits and Roll 00:00-

    ...Commissions The falsification of coronial inquests “The Incident” The lack of freeways in Sydney And the trams Tonight thanks to a court ruling*1 Four Corners can reveal to you for the first time in New South Wales how each of these relate to the Sydney Goodhouse apartment, or the one very...

  11. A workerist Soviet leader from 1985 at the head of a workerist tendency—fails

    ...people may be unfamiliar with it due to trots and LARPers: men do make history but not in the circumstances of their choosing; and individual mans *don’t* make history social movements of people do 2) that pseudo-workerist nomenklatura failed historically. The nomenklatura in my analysis was...

  12. The Judge, or the Evening Redness in the West (2014)

    The Judge, or the Evening Redness in the West is a 2014 American post-western (disputed: post-samurai) erotic-grotesque / war film directed by Terrence Malick. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall with Vera Farmiga, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Dax Shepard and Billy Bob...

  13. Debray goes to Vietnam, or FOQUISMO focuses on Vietnamese praxis

    Wotcher. Urban foqo bullshit is a meme beloved by historians: from the useless assassination of US generals in Germany, to the Kidnapping of Prime Ministers in Italy, foquismo proved itself to be dilletante intelligentsia 19th century German Idealist bullshit. And Regis Debray is worth blaming...

  14. Hogan's Hero's deals with der osten.

    ...luft stalag. Great series. Germany laughs at itself. You know me Hogan, I know… Who is missing. You know me Hogan, I know nothing. Nothing. * * * Unlike the Academic leftists the leftists around Bob Crane were American (german, Pole, jew, Italian, Irish) through and through. They saw...

  15. "You want Berlin: pay the price." Allies pay the prices.

    ...600K casualties on top of historical for a flag on a Parliament building. The Soviet political system is coherent enough to survive a substandard*1 advance on Berlin. It is coherent enough to survive a different powers agreement (or a different resolution of a prior powers agreement.)...

  16. SACP play hard and nasty

    Wotcher comrades, The SACP appears, despite its penetration of anti-apartheid politics, to have played nice for a longtime. Mandela was disciplined by the SACP to be disciplined by the ANC. The SACP/ANC/TU accord held longer than the ALP/ACTU::::::::::(CPA) accord. As Mandela (SACP CC...

  17. RAF bomb Germany into surrender

    Wotcher, The RAF had a hysterically failed conception of how warfare would occur in a strategic sense, and thus over-committed to bombing campaigns. These campaigns depleted RAF and allied forces dramatically without achieving any real political effect on the German state. But what if the RAF...

  18. Have you heard about the Bird? 1 Air-Dragoons Division's defence of Mombassa [no politics regarding 1972 please]

    Have you heard about the Bird? Air mobility became an issue in the United States with the development of the concept of parachute air assault in the 1940s. This work continued despite air-landing and air-assault during WWII into the post-war era. Air landing and air assault units were...

  19. What if the Long March decimated the CCP’s operational units?

    Gidday the Long March was a historical “retreat” by Chinese Communist Party operational light infantry forces under GMD strategic/political pressure. It resulted in force preservation and “retreat” into Yennan as a “safe” area where CCP forces had to cooperate with actual Chinese communists...

  20. Notes on the FAILS CA-33 Currawong Naval striker, Interdictor, Penetrator, Long range air control weapons system
    Threadmarks: Notes on the Currawong

    Notes on the FAILS CA-33 Currawong Naval striker, Interdictor, Penetrator, Long range air control weapons system Wotcher, Most people know the Federation of Australo-Indo Labor States’ CA-33 Currawong these days from the fuel tank asbestos scandals; or, the pathetic militarist naval aviation...
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