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The Visual Culture of Industrial Music

Nicolas Ballet(Autor*in)

Intellect Books (Verlag)

Erschienen am 3. September 2025

588 Seiten

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Beschreibung

Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly spawned a coherent visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, video) and initiated a close inspection of the legacy of modernity and the growing, pervasive influence of technology.

Originally British, the movement soon outgrew Europe, extending into the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments conducted by industrial bands - designing synthesizers, manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes, either recycled or laid down by the artists - were backed up by a rich array of radical visual productions, deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. Such saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, manipulated through the detournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art), that investigated polemical themes: mind control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry and totalitarianism, among others.

This book introduces the visual and aesthetic elements of 1970s and 1980s 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, who perceptively anticipated the current discourse concerning the media and their collective coercive power.

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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 "Nicolas Ballet's in-depth analysis and comprehensive research provides a valuable insight into the objectives, attitudes and motives behind the imagery used by exponents of the many forms of industrial music." -- Cosey Fanni Tutti "Most publications concerning industrial music dealt with the old cliche of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. For sure there was sex and drugs but rock 'n' roll was the enemy. So I'm very happy with this very deep dive into the iconography of industrial music. It will give you a much better understanding of what it was/is all about." -- F.M. Einheit "If future generations really want to know how it happened, they will now be able to explore the dopamine darkness of this extraordinary history." -- Graeme Revell "This book is a thoroughly researched catalogue of ideas, suggestions, gestures, all intended to push existential issues to the front of your mind. To act on them, to truly explore your own. Z'EV sums it up: 'it's about being.'" -- John Duncan

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Inhalt

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

"Proletariat & Industrie": Marginality and Post-Industrial Change

Post-Industrial Context: Transformation of the Nature of Power

Irony and Industrial Detournements

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 Detournements

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

Detournement 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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