Cut-up technique: Publish Your Wall
Cut-up technique ~ Any Robot Can Become a Poet
“We cannot be done with viruses as long as the ontology of network culture is viral-like” - Jussi Parikka, “The Universal Viral Machine”...
49 minutes to go...
Beat writer Burroughs and the artist Brion Gysin, known predominantly for his rediscovery of the Dada master Tristan Tzara's cut-up technique and for co-inventing the flickering Dreamachine device, worked together in the early 1960s on a publishing project that used a chance based cut-up method. A cut-up method consists of cutting up and randomly reassembling various fragments of something to give them a completely new and unexpected meaning. 1+1=3
'On Negro Poetry' - Tristan Tzara
"The crocodile hatches the future life, rain falls for the vegetal silence, one isn't a creator by analogy. The beauty of the satellites - the teaching of light - will satisfy us, for we are God only for the country of our knowledge, in the laws according to which we live experience on this earth, on both sides of our equator, inside our borders. Perfect example of the infinite we can control: the sphere."
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.
Sing, the weary blues...
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God by George Bernard Shaw
Black Girl would ask Shaw why does the "inspiring force" (God) has to be a "He." She is armed with a knobkerry (a carved stick) to smash the "ridiculous nonsense" that occurs when she interviews God and his representatives. Black Girl discovers how "water from the new fountain" is "sloshed" into "the contents of the dirty old bucket" and concludes that "we are objects of pity to the superficial but clearheaded atheists ["the Caravan of the Curious"] who are content without metaphysics and can see nothing in the whole business but its confusions and absurdities."
http://www.nathanielturner.com/adventuresofblackgirl.htm
39 minutes later, the neighbor is wondering where his kids are...
"My children!" Dali shouts upon meeting the Beats. What an incredible place for kids. Bubbles of light, Art Bingo, Cowboys and Indians, a station for designing your own post cards, and a good old-fashioned set of wooden blocks. What an incredible place for adults. Bubbles of light, Art Bingo, Cowboys and Indians, a station for designing your own post cards...
and not a second too soon...
Realitystudio.org is a weblog that reminds me of the beloved magazine REsearch, with great in-depth articles for digging deeper into Burroughs and the Third Mind...
http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/my-own-mag/yay-a-moving-times-supplement-an-in-depth-examination-of-my-own-mag/#comment-40049
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The cut-up technique, also known as fishbowling, is an aleatory literary technique or genre in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text.
1) Cut-up is performed by taking a finished and fully linear text (printed on paper) and cutting it in pieces with a few or single words on each piece. The resulting pieces are then rearranged into a new text. The rearranging of work often results in surprisingly innovative new phrases. A common way is to cut a sheet in four rectangular sections, rearranging them and then typing down the mingled prose while compensating for the haphazard word breaks by improvising and innovating along the way.
2) Fold-in is the technique of taking two different sheets of linear text (with the same linespacing), cutting each sheet in half and combining with the other, then reading across the resulting page. The resulting text is often a blend of the two themes, somewhat hard to read. A precedent of the technique occurred during a Surrealist rally in the 1920s: Tristan Tzara, founder of the early 20th century Dada movement, offered to create a poem on the spot by pulling words at random from a hat. A riot ensued and André Breton expelled Tzara from the movement.
3) In the 1950s painter and writer Brion Gysin more fully developed the cut-up method after accidentally discovering it. He had placed layers of newspapers as a mat to protect a tabletop from being scratched while he cut papers with a razor blade. Upon cutting through the newspapers, Gysin noticed that the sliced layers offered interesting juxtapositions. He began deliberately cutting newspaper articles into sections, which he randomly rearranged.
In 1963, the Times Literary Supplement announced the arrival of Dead Fingers Talk with a cry of Ugh! Later that year, Burroughs received the first issue of My Own Mag and responded with a resounding, Yes! In Jeff Nuttall, Burroughs found a fellow traveler who delighted in tweaking the noses of the establishment. For the next two years, they created some of the most interesting work of the mimeo revolution. Burroughs taught cut-up technique to Genesis P-Orridge in 1971 as a method for "altering reality". Burroughs' explanation was that everything is recorded, and if it is recorded, then it can be edited (P-Orridge, 2003). P-Orridge has long employed cut-ups as an applied philosophy, a way of creating art and music, and of conducting one's life.
Cut-up technique ~ Turning Oil Into Money/ Is Shit Worth The Paper It Was Printed On?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Tzara
http://www.nechvatal.net/
"Out of Chaos, Brilliant Stars are Born" ~ Henry Brooks Adams quotes (American writer, 1838-1918)
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Crystalpunk is a new name for all AnarchoHomunculi Jezebels who make something out of nothing while not really doing anything in particular. Crystalpunk is the big push of the mercurial dilettanti, a rallying cry for people to make all sort of weird things, things that are radical but hurt no one. Things that are big physically (even though that is most often the easy way out) or things that are big mentally. Things that are ideogrammatic and are above language. Things that are mnemogenic (Nabokov) and slip past the filters of consciousness and stick in the memory like a boot in the mud (things that are made from memory, things that sink in and confabulate into perfect shape). Things that create artefacts through us. Things that are BacterioPoetic and are made from scratch. Things that "build a dream over the world" (Ezra pound). Things that are here to stay for ever. Things can grow into themselves and we have stories to prove it. On their honeymoon William Butler Yeats, that great Crystalpunk, as admirable, and as preposterous, as an Easter Island head, discovered the talent of his wife, Georgiana Hyde-Lees, for automatic writing. From then on the newly-weds devoted one hour every day to record the "disjointed sentences in an almost illegible script", channelled through her by Nomen Nescio Writers from the elemental essence. Only much later these half-intelligent entities were to confess true colour: "We have come to give you new metaphors for poetry", they wrote by pushing their borrowed pen.
http://www.socialfiction.org/?archive=current/archive_10Dec2007.html
The Third Mind ~ The Train of the Future Looking Back at the Past
Determined Indeterminacy A Review of THE THIRD MIND at Le Palais de Tokyo Curated by Ugo Rondinone
When Ginsburg and Orlovsky arrived in Tangiers in 1961, Burroughs was working on an even more advanced use of the cut-up; he and Ian Sommerville were cutting and splicing audiotapes and Burroughs was making collages from newspapers and photographs while proclaiming that poetry and words were dead. Burroughs however soon began work on a cut-up novel, the Soft Machine, drawing material from his The Word Hoard, a collection of Burroughs’s manuscripts written in Tangier, Paris, and London that created the super mother-load manuscript serving as the basis for much of Burroughs’s cut-up writings. This manuscript was soon being “assembled” and edited by Ian Sommerville and Michael Portman; Burroughs’s companions. Sommerville was regularly speaking of building electrical cut-up machines. Burroughs would soon begin collaborating on a book project with Brion Gysin using the cut-up method; cutting up and reassembling various fragments of sentences and images to give them a new and unexpected meaning. The Third Mind is the title of the book they devised together following this method - and they were so overwhelmed by the results that they felt it had been composed by a third person; a third author (mind) made of a synthesis of their two personalities.
http://scan.net.au/scan/magazine/display.php?journal_id=57
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) The Cut-Up Films
http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs.html
- William Buys a Parrot (1963)
- Bill and Tony (1972)
- Towers Open Fire (1963)
- Ghost at n°9 (Paris) (1963-72)
- The Cut-Ups (1966)
Spy vs Counterspy ~ Adrienne Reich, female counterpart to William S. Burroughs
Diving into the Wreck ~ poeme excerpt by Adrienne Reich
We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to this scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our names do not appear.
http://languageisavirus.com/articles/articles.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1099111044&archive=&start_from=&ucat
http://www.languageisavirus.com/author/questions/index.php?search=Adrienne+Rich
Digital Concatenations ~ Merging the XY factor (Z)
{loop:file = get-random-executable-file;
if first-line-of-file = then goto loop;
prepend virus to file;} - Fred Cohen, Computer Viruses: Theory and Experiments
DIGITAL CONTAGIONS: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses by Jussi Parikka (Peter Lang Books, 2007, 327 pages); Reviewed by Joseph Nechvatal.
http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2007/09/28/review-of-digital-contagions/
http://post.thing.net/node/1755
Cut Up Machines ~ What Strange Machines We Are
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This is a cut-up machine working along similar principles to those used by Burroughs in his own work. Basically it works along principles related to photo-montage, create an new image of words out of whatever was put in ~ Type or copy & paste some text into the areas below and click on "Cut It Up"!
http://www.languageisavirus.com/cutupmachine.html
Language is a Virus ~ Publish Yourself !
Publish today with Language is a Virus wordclay...
http://www.wordclay.com/partners/languageisavirus/default.aspx
*How to Write a Cut Up Poem...
1) Choose a newspaper, magazine, several favorite poems or your own journal. This exercise works best if you mix and match the above items.
2) Stack two to four pages of the items from Step 1 together.
3) Cut the stack into four equal parts.
4) Cut each of the parts from Step 3 into another four parts.
5) Spread the pieces of paper out on the table and randomly move them around, making two rows of paper.
6) Tape the pieces of paper together.
7) Write out each line of your new poetry creation.
The Cut-up Method and the Occultist’s State of Trance ~ David Bowie and the Occult
From at least the early 1970s, David Bowie has used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics. The Cut-Up method: "Inspirations have I none"... The cut-up technique was originally devised by the Surrealists who called it automatic writing orcadavre exquis, and later reassembled by Brion Gysin and most famously used in literature by William S. Burroughs: you take a text, cut it into pieces, reassemble these pieces haphazardly, and thus create something new. Because Bowie used the cut-up technique to 'write' many of his lyrics there is not much sense in trying to analyse them as a whole or each lyric individually word by word: instead one has to focus on the recurring images and codes that appear in the entire "David Bowie" 'opus', which connote his kind of gnosticism. Bowie defined his use of the cut-up method as his way of discovering his own past and future. He himself became a cut-up himself too - at least for those who followed his career closely throug the years - these followers were (and still are) confronted by reflections of themselves in the splintered facettes that make up Bowie's often odd-sounding lyrics; in Bowie's ever-changing styles of fashion images; in Bowie's constant name-dropping of keywords of books whenever a micro or a pencil of a journalist was and is at hand. It's probably also worth pointing out that he talks in fractals. The cut-up method makes it largely irrelevant whether or not Bowie is conscious of himself as a Gnostic; that is, whether he knowingly expresses himself in Gnostic terms - or whether he is hiding it ("in an all time low").
http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/bowie.htm
Behavioural cut-ups ~ CrimethInc. ...
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Recipes For Disaster by the anarchist collective CrimethInc. features a recipe entitled "behavioural cut-ups". This recipe is a method of changing one's life by performing activities which are perceived as (at a basic level) cutting up two socially acceptable, routine behaviours and attaching them to form a creative, amusing activity. It is intended that the practitioner perform one or a series of cut-ups for a long amount of time, until it becomes second nature and the practitioner's behaviour is significantly altered. In the basic behavioural cut-up, the practitioner consults a list of things he or she does every day, and a list of things that that he or she finds frightening, and apply the cut-up technique to both lists. For example, the text suggests: "Public Transportation and Public Speaking." The user is supposed to become used to making speeches on the subway or bus. Another suggestion is using a toaster as a prop while performing odd behavior, such as giving the toaster a face and personality, talking to it, and keeping it on one's person at all times. CrimethInc., also known as CWC ("CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective" or "CrimethInc Ex-Workers Ex-Collective"), is a decentralized anarchist collective composed of autonomous cells. CrimethInc. emerged in the mid-1990s - initially as the hardcore zine Inside Front - and began operating as a collective in 1996. It has since published widely-read articles for the anarchist movement. CrimethInc. has had a long association with the North American anarcho-punk scene due to its relationship with notable artists in the genre and its publishing of Inside Front. It has since expanded into nearly all areas of the contemporary anti-capitalist movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimethInc.
CWC Interview in Swedish Anarchist Paper
http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2008/09/11/cwc-interview-in-swedish-syndicalist-paper/
Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recipes_for_Disaster
Wordplay On The Cut-up
http://www.aisleone.net/2008/intervista/intervista-experimenta/
Fusion = Evolution...
Leonardo is a journal published by the MIT Press, dedicated to "documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology". It was founded by artist and scientist Frank Malina in Paris, France in 1966 and began international publication of its print journal in 1968. Leonardo has published writings by artists who work with science- and technology-based art media for 40 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Journal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press
Goals: Focus on your goals. And don’t get caught focusing...
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“We cannot be done with viruses as long as the ontology of network culture is viral-like” - Jussi Parikka, “The Universal Viral Machine”...
49 minutes to go...
Beat writer Burroughs and the artist Brion Gysin, known predominantly for his rediscovery of the Dada master Tristan Tzara's cut-up technique and for co-inventing the flickering Dreamachine device, worked together in the early 1960s on a publishing project that used a chance based cut-up method. A cut-up method consists of cutting up and randomly reassembling various fragments of something to give them a completely new and unexpected meaning. 1+1=3
'On Negro Poetry' - Tristan Tzara
"The crocodile hatches the future life, rain falls for the vegetal silence, one isn't a creator by analogy. The beauty of the satellites - the teaching of light - will satisfy us, for we are God only for the country of our knowledge, in the laws according to which we live experience on this earth, on both sides of our equator, inside our borders. Perfect example of the infinite we can control: the sphere."
.
.
Sing, the weary blues...
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God by George Bernard Shaw
Black Girl would ask Shaw why does the "inspiring force" (God) has to be a "He." She is armed with a knobkerry (a carved stick) to smash the "ridiculous nonsense" that occurs when she interviews God and his representatives. Black Girl discovers how "water from the new fountain" is "sloshed" into "the contents of the dirty old bucket" and concludes that "we are objects of pity to the superficial but clearheaded atheists ["the Caravan of the Curious"] who are content without metaphysics and can see nothing in the whole business but its confusions and absurdities."
http://www.nathanielturner.com/adventuresofblackgirl.htm
39 minutes later, the neighbor is wondering where his kids are...
"My children!" Dali shouts upon meeting the Beats. What an incredible place for kids. Bubbles of light, Art Bingo, Cowboys and Indians, a station for designing your own post cards, and a good old-fashioned set of wooden blocks. What an incredible place for adults. Bubbles of light, Art Bingo, Cowboys and Indians, a station for designing your own post cards...
and not a second too soon...
Realitystudio.org is a weblog that reminds me of the beloved magazine REsearch, with great in-depth articles for digging deeper into Burroughs and the Third Mind...
http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/my-own-mag/yay-a-moving-times-supplement-an-in-depth-examination-of-my-own-mag/#comment-40049
.
The cut-up technique, also known as fishbowling, is an aleatory literary technique or genre in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text.
1) Cut-up is performed by taking a finished and fully linear text (printed on paper) and cutting it in pieces with a few or single words on each piece. The resulting pieces are then rearranged into a new text. The rearranging of work often results in surprisingly innovative new phrases. A common way is to cut a sheet in four rectangular sections, rearranging them and then typing down the mingled prose while compensating for the haphazard word breaks by improvising and innovating along the way.
2) Fold-in is the technique of taking two different sheets of linear text (with the same linespacing), cutting each sheet in half and combining with the other, then reading across the resulting page. The resulting text is often a blend of the two themes, somewhat hard to read. A precedent of the technique occurred during a Surrealist rally in the 1920s: Tristan Tzara, founder of the early 20th century Dada movement, offered to create a poem on the spot by pulling words at random from a hat. A riot ensued and André Breton expelled Tzara from the movement.
3) In the 1950s painter and writer Brion Gysin more fully developed the cut-up method after accidentally discovering it. He had placed layers of newspapers as a mat to protect a tabletop from being scratched while he cut papers with a razor blade. Upon cutting through the newspapers, Gysin noticed that the sliced layers offered interesting juxtapositions. He began deliberately cutting newspaper articles into sections, which he randomly rearranged.
In 1963, the Times Literary Supplement announced the arrival of Dead Fingers Talk with a cry of Ugh! Later that year, Burroughs received the first issue of My Own Mag and responded with a resounding, Yes! In Jeff Nuttall, Burroughs found a fellow traveler who delighted in tweaking the noses of the establishment. For the next two years, they created some of the most interesting work of the mimeo revolution. Burroughs taught cut-up technique to Genesis P-Orridge in 1971 as a method for "altering reality". Burroughs' explanation was that everything is recorded, and if it is recorded, then it can be edited (P-Orridge, 2003). P-Orridge has long employed cut-ups as an applied philosophy, a way of creating art and music, and of conducting one's life.
Cut-up technique ~ Turning Oil Into Money/ Is Shit Worth The Paper It Was Printed On?
.
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Tzara
http://www.nechvatal.net/
"Out of Chaos, Brilliant Stars are Born" ~ Henry Brooks Adams quotes (American writer, 1838-1918)
.
Crystalpunk is a new name for all AnarchoHomunculi Jezebels who make something out of nothing while not really doing anything in particular. Crystalpunk is the big push of the mercurial dilettanti, a rallying cry for people to make all sort of weird things, things that are radical but hurt no one. Things that are big physically (even though that is most often the easy way out) or things that are big mentally. Things that are ideogrammatic and are above language. Things that are mnemogenic (Nabokov) and slip past the filters of consciousness and stick in the memory like a boot in the mud (things that are made from memory, things that sink in and confabulate into perfect shape). Things that create artefacts through us. Things that are BacterioPoetic and are made from scratch. Things that "build a dream over the world" (Ezra pound). Things that are here to stay for ever. Things can grow into themselves and we have stories to prove it. On their honeymoon William Butler Yeats, that great Crystalpunk, as admirable, and as preposterous, as an Easter Island head, discovered the talent of his wife, Georgiana Hyde-Lees, for automatic writing. From then on the newly-weds devoted one hour every day to record the "disjointed sentences in an almost illegible script", channelled through her by Nomen Nescio Writers from the elemental essence. Only much later these half-intelligent entities were to confess true colour: "We have come to give you new metaphors for poetry", they wrote by pushing their borrowed pen.
http://www.socialfiction.org/?archive=current/archive_10Dec2007.html
The Third Mind ~ The Train of the Future Looking Back at the Past
Determined Indeterminacy A Review of THE THIRD MIND at Le Palais de Tokyo Curated by Ugo Rondinone
When Ginsburg and Orlovsky arrived in Tangiers in 1961, Burroughs was working on an even more advanced use of the cut-up; he and Ian Sommerville were cutting and splicing audiotapes and Burroughs was making collages from newspapers and photographs while proclaiming that poetry and words were dead. Burroughs however soon began work on a cut-up novel, the Soft Machine, drawing material from his The Word Hoard, a collection of Burroughs’s manuscripts written in Tangier, Paris, and London that created the super mother-load manuscript serving as the basis for much of Burroughs’s cut-up writings. This manuscript was soon being “assembled” and edited by Ian Sommerville and Michael Portman; Burroughs’s companions. Sommerville was regularly speaking of building electrical cut-up machines. Burroughs would soon begin collaborating on a book project with Brion Gysin using the cut-up method; cutting up and reassembling various fragments of sentences and images to give them a new and unexpected meaning. The Third Mind is the title of the book they devised together following this method - and they were so overwhelmed by the results that they felt it had been composed by a third person; a third author (mind) made of a synthesis of their two personalities.
http://scan.net.au/scan/magazine/display.php?journal_id=57
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) The Cut-Up Films
http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs.html
- William Buys a Parrot (1963)
- Bill and Tony (1972)
- Towers Open Fire (1963)
- Ghost at n°9 (Paris) (1963-72)
- The Cut-Ups (1966)
Click to viewSpy vs Counterspy ~ Adrienne Reich, female counterpart to William S. Burroughs
Diving into the Wreck ~ poeme excerpt by Adrienne Reich
We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to this scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our names do not appear.
http://languageisavirus.com/articles/articles.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1099111044&archive=&start_from=&ucat
http://www.languageisavirus.com/author/questions/index.php?search=Adrienne+Rich
Digital Concatenations ~ Merging the XY factor (Z)
{loop:file = get-random-executable-file;
if first-line-of-file = then goto loop;
prepend virus to file;} - Fred Cohen, Computer Viruses: Theory and Experiments
DIGITAL CONTAGIONS: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses by Jussi Parikka (Peter Lang Books, 2007, 327 pages); Reviewed by Joseph Nechvatal.
http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2007/09/28/review-of-digital-contagions/
http://post.thing.net/node/1755
Cut Up Machines ~ What Strange Machines We Are
.
This is a cut-up machine working along similar principles to those used by Burroughs in his own work. Basically it works along principles related to photo-montage, create an new image of words out of whatever was put in ~ Type or copy & paste some text into the areas below and click on "Cut It Up"!
http://www.languageisavirus.com/cutupmachine.html
Language is a Virus ~ Publish Yourself !
Publish today with Language is a Virus wordclay...
http://www.wordclay.com/partners/languageisavirus/default.aspx
*How to Write a Cut Up Poem...
1) Choose a newspaper, magazine, several favorite poems or your own journal. This exercise works best if you mix and match the above items.
2) Stack two to four pages of the items from Step 1 together.
3) Cut the stack into four equal parts.
4) Cut each of the parts from Step 3 into another four parts.
5) Spread the pieces of paper out on the table and randomly move them around, making two rows of paper.
6) Tape the pieces of paper together.
7) Write out each line of your new poetry creation.
The Cut-up Method and the Occultist’s State of Trance ~ David Bowie and the Occult
From at least the early 1970s, David Bowie has used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics. The Cut-Up method: "Inspirations have I none"... The cut-up technique was originally devised by the Surrealists who called it automatic writing orcadavre exquis, and later reassembled by Brion Gysin and most famously used in literature by William S. Burroughs: you take a text, cut it into pieces, reassemble these pieces haphazardly, and thus create something new. Because Bowie used the cut-up technique to 'write' many of his lyrics there is not much sense in trying to analyse them as a whole or each lyric individually word by word: instead one has to focus on the recurring images and codes that appear in the entire "David Bowie" 'opus', which connote his kind of gnosticism. Bowie defined his use of the cut-up method as his way of discovering his own past and future. He himself became a cut-up himself too - at least for those who followed his career closely throug the years - these followers were (and still are) confronted by reflections of themselves in the splintered facettes that make up Bowie's often odd-sounding lyrics; in Bowie's ever-changing styles of fashion images; in Bowie's constant name-dropping of keywords of books whenever a micro or a pencil of a journalist was and is at hand. It's probably also worth pointing out that he talks in fractals. The cut-up method makes it largely irrelevant whether or not Bowie is conscious of himself as a Gnostic; that is, whether he knowingly expresses himself in Gnostic terms - or whether he is hiding it ("in an all time low").
http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/bowie.htm
Behavioural cut-ups ~ CrimethInc. ...
.
Recipes For Disaster by the anarchist collective CrimethInc. features a recipe entitled "behavioural cut-ups". This recipe is a method of changing one's life by performing activities which are perceived as (at a basic level) cutting up two socially acceptable, routine behaviours and attaching them to form a creative, amusing activity. It is intended that the practitioner perform one or a series of cut-ups for a long amount of time, until it becomes second nature and the practitioner's behaviour is significantly altered. In the basic behavioural cut-up, the practitioner consults a list of things he or she does every day, and a list of things that that he or she finds frightening, and apply the cut-up technique to both lists. For example, the text suggests: "Public Transportation and Public Speaking." The user is supposed to become used to making speeches on the subway or bus. Another suggestion is using a toaster as a prop while performing odd behavior, such as giving the toaster a face and personality, talking to it, and keeping it on one's person at all times. CrimethInc., also known as CWC ("CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective" or "CrimethInc Ex-Workers Ex-Collective"), is a decentralized anarchist collective composed of autonomous cells. CrimethInc. emerged in the mid-1990s - initially as the hardcore zine Inside Front - and began operating as a collective in 1996. It has since published widely-read articles for the anarchist movement. CrimethInc. has had a long association with the North American anarcho-punk scene due to its relationship with notable artists in the genre and its publishing of Inside Front. It has since expanded into nearly all areas of the contemporary anti-capitalist movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimethInc.
CWC Interview in Swedish Anarchist Paper
http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2008/09/11/cwc-interview-in-swedish-syndicalist-paper/
Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recipes_for_Disaster
Wordplay On The Cut-up
http://www.aisleone.net/2008/intervista/intervista-experimenta/
Fusion = Evolution...
Leonardo is a journal published by the MIT Press, dedicated to "documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology". It was founded by artist and scientist Frank Malina in Paris, France in 1966 and began international publication of its print journal in 1968. Leonardo has published writings by artists who work with science- and technology-based art media for 40 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Journal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press
Goals: Focus on your goals. And don’t get caught focusing...
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