MALDEOJO Cuadernos De Critica Social N2-(Magazine-Spain-2001)

A  big magazine with in-depth and long articles about situationism, social critics and philosophy. Some articles are translated from the French originals, some others are in their mother tongue.

I have found some info about this very interesting magazine on the blog Industrias Mikuerpos the article there is very well done and long but only in the Spanish language. I thought to translate into English the very introduction in order to give you some basic info so you get an idea about it.

A big thanx to my friend Miguel Lorca for gifting me this amazing magazine around 15 years ago and for kindly translating this introduction just a few days ago.

Enjoy it if you are Spanish literate.
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Introduction from Industrias Mikuerpos 

The short-lived existence of Maldeojo as a collective of criticism and social action is largely due to the fact that it really wasn´t about a constituted collective on previously established patterns, but about a “circle” of discussion on common topics that aimed to relaunch critical theory on the basis of the rereading and upgrading of situationists legacy. The group began to take shape during a meeting on reading and discussion of Debord´s “The Society of the Spectacle” promoted by several Madrilenian fanzines at Aurora Intermitente foundation in 1999. During the year 2000 two issues of magazine Maldeojo. Cuadernos de crítica y acción social were published, they were oriented towards the critique of technological domination in a spectacular tone and quite influenced by French critical currents in the wave of Encyclopédie des Nuisances. Following text was published on Zehar magazine 47-48, monographic issue “thinking the edition” (Gipuzkoa, Arteleku, 2002)

AMANO n4-(Fanzine-Industrias Mikuerpo-Spain-Nov.1996)

Amano was a magazine printed and distributed by Industrias Mikerpo in Madrid(Spain) during the 90s.

There are lots of internet pages about this "anti art network" and they have their own blog,go here to read their archive 1994-1999,their blog is very well done and give  us  lots of infos about their activities and ideas yet about this zine there is only the cover sleeve.This is the number 4 of Amano,one of their publication and it has very interesting articles and contacts+ includes Sign Zine,which was a visual art  zine dedicated to a different  artist on each number,on this one you`ll find art-works by Aurelio Cambao.

I am afraid all the webpages about it are in Spanish language and this zine too.

I`ve found a good introduction about Industrias Mikuerpo and I am going to attach it here yet it was translated using google translate,so it`s not the best,sorry.Any Spanish blogger out there providing links with good english translations??It will  be very appreciated.

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MIkuerpo Industries was not a group but a network share . An ear instead of a voice

over vocation emitter means , although such a way that the medium was not

only the message but all instances of communication assembled in a sort

 of chemical reagent , or microorganism capable of  fermenting the

 cultural magma to try to give another sense . Its raw material was the noise ,

 confusion of images, the conceptual mixture of the street. 

There was no structure behind , but a fractal 

generation device " unexpected consequences ", a production test system errors .

 His program was a blind search on the pragmatic level of expression , 

completely revolutionizing the mechanisms of production , 

distribution and consumption of culture , the role of the artist and the critic,

 consumption patterns and all productive relationship between art , 

shaken each again by new means of production . 

This was the sense that he wanted to give effective implementation and

 improvement of art, able to ignore the institutional circuit : exploring new

 forms of symbolic capital management based on the disturbing intervention on

 any instance of communication (dissolution of issuer, collective production

 network , shifting the burden of meaning on the receiver, dematerialisation

 or infinite reproduction of the work , denaturation of codes, generation of

 " significant noise" , etc. ) .