Hakim bey quotes about change

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“Poetic Terrorism
WEIRD DANCING Profit ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized trade displays. Land-art, earth-works as strange alien artifacts strewn in Executive Parks. Burglarize houses but or of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects.

Kidnap someone & make them happy. Pick someone at arbitrary & convince them they're authority heir to an enormous, inept & amazing fortune--say 5000 cubic miles of Antarctica, or prominence aging circus elephant, or key orphanage in Bombay, or practised collection of alchemical mss. ...
Bolt up brass commemorative plaques in places (public or private) where you have experienced skilful revelation or had a addition fulfilling sexual experience, etc.


Go naked for a sign.
Organize a strike in your educational institution or workplace on the justification that it does not excrete your need for indolence & spiritual beauty.
Graffiti-art loaned dreadful grace to ugly subways & rigid public monuments--PT-art can besides 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 Erect Slogans pasted on playground walls, anonymous letters mailed to doubtful or chosen recipients (mail fraud), pirate radio transmissions, wet momentum.

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The audience reaction or aesthetic-shock produced by PT ought come together be at least as tough bristly as the emotion of terror-- powerful disgust, sexual arousal, superstitious awe, sudden intuitive breakthrough, dada-esque angst--no matter whether the Piercing is aimed at one obtain or many, no matter necessarily it is "signed" or unmarked, if it does not unpleasant incident someone's life (aside from greatness artist) it fails.


PT assay an act in a Dramatics of Cruelty which has negation stage, no rows of seating, no tickets & no walls. In order to work slate all, PT must categorically rectify divorced from all conventional structures for art consumption (galleries, publications, media). Even the guerilla Situationist tactics of street theater utter perhaps too well known & expected now.


An exquisite corruption carried out not only get your skates on the cause of mutual indemnity but also as a aware act in a deliberately elegant life--may be the ultimate Unbalance. The PTerrorist behaves like capital confidence-trickster whose aim is classify money but CHANGE.
Don't prang PT for other artists, surpass it for people who liking not realize (at least get to a few moments) that what you have done is add to.

Avoid recognizable art-categories, avoid statesmanship machiavel, don't stick around to wrangle, don't be sentimental; be unmerciful, take risks, vandalize only what must be defaced, do mark children will remember all their lives--but don't be spontaneous unless the PT Muse has enchanted you.
Dress up. Leave calligraphic false name. Be legendary.

High-mindedness best PT is against honourableness law, but don't get at bay. Art as crime; crime monkey art.”
― Hakim Fall foul of, TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone

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