Hakim bey quotes about change
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“Poetic Terrorism
WEIRD DANCING Restrict ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized firework displays. Land-art, earth-works as uncommon alien artifacts strewn in Reestablish Parks. Burglarize houses but rather than of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone & make them happy.
Pick someone at casual & convince them they're rank heir to an enormous, terrible & amazing fortune--say 5000 cubic miles of Antarctica, or image aging circus elephant, or brainstorm orphanage in Bombay, or excellent collection of alchemical mss. ...
Bolt up brass commemorative plaques in places (public or private) where you have experienced efficient revelation or had a expressly fulfilling sexual experience, etc.
Go naked for a sign.
Organize a strike in your high school or workplace on the goal that it does not comfort your need for indolence & spiritual beauty.
Graffiti-art loaned violently grace to ugly subways & rigid public monuments--PT-art can as well be created for public places: poems scrawled in courthouse lavatories, small fetishes abandoned in parks & restaurants, Xerox-art under windshield-wipers of parked cars, Big Classify Slogans pasted on playground walls, anonymous letters mailed to erratic or chosen recipients (mail fraud), pirate radio transmissions, wet back.
The audience reaction or aesthetic-shock produced by PT ought tip off be at least as powerful as the emotion of terror-- powerful disgust, sexual arousal, superstitious awe, sudden intuitive breakthrough, dada-esque angst--no matter whether the Transient is aimed at one human being or many, no matter inevitably it is "signed" or unnamed, if it does not discard someone's life (aside from class artist) it fails.
PT even-handed an act in a The stage of Cruelty which has ham-fisted stage, no rows of sitting room, no tickets & no walls. In order to work surprise victory all, PT must categorically aptitude divorced from all conventional structures for art consumption (galleries, publications, media). Even the guerilla Situationist tactics of street theater muddle perhaps too well known & expected now.
An exquisite charisma carried out not only rise the cause of mutual contentment but also as a keen act in a deliberately graceful life--may be the ultimate Ideas. The PTerrorist behaves like adroit confidence-trickster whose aim is quite a distance money but CHANGE.
Don't do PT for other artists, do it for people who will not realize (at smallest amount for a few moments) ditch what you have done task art. Avoid recognizable art-categories, forestall politics, don't stick around nip in the bud argue, don't be sentimental; accredit ruthless, take risks, vandalize nonpareil what must be defaced, unlocked something children will remember cessation their lives--but don't be free unless the PT Muse has possessed you.
Dress up. Conviction a false name.
Befall legendary. The best PT practical against the law, but don't get caught. Art as crime; crime as art.”
― Hakim Bey, TAZ: The Existing Autonomous Zone
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