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State of Emergency was a conference/festival/insurrection held in a reclaimed inner-city Melbourne warehouse, squatted and made public for four days over 21 - 24 May, 2004. It was a search for escape routes to galaxies where the word capitalism is untranslatable and to which people only respond with puzzled looks. It was a meeting-place, bar, cafe, cinema, music hall, accommodation and playspace.

This e-book is a collection of essays and articles relating to issues of globalisation, war on terror and fear politics, civil disobedience, squatting and contemporary organising models amongst disenfrachised communities which was distributed as part of the conference.

Excerpt from the State of Emergency Reader:

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Armed guards patrol 'civilian' aircraft. Travellers from suspicious states entering the USA are fingerprinted and photographed. Anti-terror laws allow anyone to be arrested without warrants or legal representation. Arms budgets inflate. The US runs a police state in Iraq while Australia becomes the 'sheriff' of the Asia-Pacific: interning its unwanted visitors here, providing military intervention there. Fear of the 'invading hordes' is the law. For the rulers of the global empire, the time since 9/11/2001 has been a 'state of emergency'.

But for the exploited, the poor, the different, the disenfranchised, nothing much has changed. Capitalism has always manufactured panics. It has always exploited our bodies, our minds, our time, our creativity, the planet on which we live. It has always forced us to move or given us no choice but to flee, reclassified us as illegal to suit its needs, barricaded itself against our strength and life and designed ever more spurious 'threats' to the state in order to shut down its people. Our daily lives are just as difficult as before. The state of emergency is not the exception, but the rule.

--------------------------------------- For full transcripts of the conference check out the State of Emergency website.

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INTRODUCTION: TECHNO INFERNO

PART ONE: POST RAVE AUSTRALIA
Chapter One/ Doof! Australian Post-Rave Culture
Chapter Two/ Propagating Abominable Knowledge: Zines on the Tekno Fringe

PART TWO : SOUND SYSTEMS AND SYSTEMS SOUND

Chapter Three / Sound Systems and Australian DiY Culture: Folk Music for the Dot Com Generation
Chapter Four / Doofstory: Sydney Park to the Desert
Chapter Five / Tuning Technology to Ecology: Labrats Sola Powered Sound System
Chapter Six / Techno Terra-ism: Feral Systems and Sound Futures

PART THREE : TECHNO-ASCENSION

Chapter Seven / Mutoid Waste Recycledelia and Earthdream
Chapter Eight / Psychic Sonics: Tribadelic Dance Trance-formation
Chapter Nine / Chaos Engines: Doofs, Psychedelics and Religious Experience
Chapter Ten / Directions to the Game: Barrellful of Monkeys

PART FOUR : RECLAIMING SPACE
Chapter Eleven / Practice Random Acts: Reclaiming The Streets of Australia
Chapter Twelve / Carnival at Crown Casino: S11 as Party and Protest
Chapter 13 / Appropriating the Means of Production: Dance Music Industries and Contested Digital Space


:::Contributing Writers :::
Ray Castle, Robin Cooke, DJ Krusty, Chris Gibson, Kurt Iveson, Labrats, Susan Luckman, Enda Murray, Rak Razam, Sean Scalmer, Graham St John, Pete Strong, Des Tramacchi, Kathleen Williamson.

To buy a copy of the print book from Common Ground Publishing click here.