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All,

so, i had this idea that we could compile an awesome book full of manifestos. Artistic, polical, and insane. I am sure we all have our favorite manifestos and, as manifestos, i'm pretty sure you are legally allowed to re-publish without permission.

I say we make a BOOK of manifestos. Maybe just ONE or Two for the library or maybe 100 from Pace Print (would run about £150?)

anyone wanna spear head this?

I'll help.

ryan

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awesome! fantastic idea....
SUGGESTIONs....

you can't say "fuck" in radio free america (patti smith)
http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/poetry/cantsay.htm

overcoming tourism (hakim bay)
http://www.hermetic.com/bey/tourism.html

the decadent action manifesto (Shop Now Riot Later)
http://www.monoculartimes.co.uk/counter ... tion.shtml

always be drunk (baudelaire)
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/581.html

in praise of idleness (bertrand russell)
http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

the flaneur's flanifesto
http://www.flaneur.org/flanifesto.html

SCUM (valerie solanas)
http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm

long live the vortex! (wyndham lewis)
http://www.english.uga.edu/~hypertxt/blast.html
::"elephants are VERY BIG. motor cars go quickly"

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If you have the space (or want to fill up some), then the Unabomber had a manifesto.

And don't forget the GNU call to keyboards.

good good. more more.

will discuss at PUB meetiung

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i'd include this one by bill drummond:

http://www.nomusicday.com/home.htm

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"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." --John Cage.

The Futurist Manifesto
10 We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.

Right the fuck on.

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the last song on the new michaela melian album is called "Manifest"

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"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." --John Cage.

Lars Von Trier's Dogme95 Manifesto
http://www.dogme95.dk/menu/menuset.htm
'The auteur concept was bourgeois romanticism from the very start and thereby ... false!
To DOGME 95 cinema is not individual!'

Andre Breton's Surrealist Manifesto
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/courses/Jbutler/T ... ealism.htm
'At this juncture, my intention was merely to mark a point by noting the
hate of the marvelous which rages in certain men, this absurdity beneath which they try to bury it. Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

The Association of Autonomous Astronauts AAA
had any number of manifestos

4) The terrorization of gravity
Gravity is the police force of Gaia's autocracy & should just like every other institution of repressing power be antagonised, bullied, taunted, provoked, wounded & killed just like any other institution. It is essential that the G-forces be weakened, before the AAA space programme commences

the autonomous/anonymous element leads into
The Luther Blisset Manifesto
(we really should write a Jim Davis manifesto.)
'Luther Blissett is not a 'teamwork identity' as reported by the journalists; rather, it is a MULTIPLE SINGLE: the 'Luther Blissetts' don't exist, only Luther Blissett exist. Today we can infuse ourselves with vitality by exploring any possibility of escaping the conventional identities.'

The Decadent Action Manifesto
http://www.monoculartimes.co.uk/counter ... tion.shtml
(one for Bill)
7. Pass on the decadent message at all possible opportunities. We recommend writing, rubber stamping or scalding on bank notes with appropriate pro- consumer slogans such as 'spend, spend, spend' and 'shop now, riot later'.

The Neoist Alliance
ltaken argely the work of Stewart Home's vast, amorphous writings/rantings.
His readings are semi-legendary, reading being somewhat of a misonomer usually as he recites from memory
19-20th MAY 2007
University of Stirling, Central Region, Scotland FK9 4LA.
Stewart Home is a plenary speaker at the "Retelling Tales" conference organised by the Department of English Studies. Home will deliver a paper on: "Losing The Plot: Twice told tales and post-modern rumours of narrative exhaustion". For full programme, exact times and other information: tel 07890775759; or email retellingtales@stir.ac.uk

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Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's K Foundation

had a series of adverts and slogans maybe not a full manifesto

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto

Cho Seung-Hui had a manifesto, but perhaps it is not funny.

Currently reading Billy Childish's My Fault (me recommend)
Find the first of The Stuckist Manifestoes here
http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html

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One of favs , "Detourned Painting" by Asger Jorn


http://www.notbored.org/detourned-painting.html

here is a fine piece, hard words, softly spoken:

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4 ... festo.html

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but they were a bunch a fascists. that's a problem with experimental art groups of the early 20th Century...

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here's one not by fascists:
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/9

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GG Allin Manifesto
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_GG_Allin_Manifesto

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Ever more
Childish
death’s head moth manifesto
http://www.billychildish.com/dhm_manifesto.html

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http://www.penkiln-burn.com/highlights/ ... er_57.html

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http://teaappreciationsociety.blogspot.com/
Our Manifesto
Manifesto of the
Tea Appreciation Society

1. We want to sing the love of tea.

2. The essential elements of our poetry will be loose leaf tea, boiled water, a tea pot, a china cup and a biscuit.

3. Literature has up to now magnified idleness, and slumber. We want to exalt these slow movements of ecstasy, feverish boiling of the kettle, the pour, the perilous stir, the rattle and the clink of the spoon.

4. We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by an old beauty: the beauty of tea.

5. Beauty exists only in considered brewing. There is no masterpiece that has an aggressive character. Poetry is not a violent assault on the forces of infusion.

6. We want to glorify peace - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism; these destructive gestures kill the beautiful ideas of the human race.

7. We want to visit museums and libraries, encourage philosophy.

8. We will sing of the great crowds agitated by work; the revolt, smashing the supermarkets; we will rejoice in the baking of bread; the polyphonic surf of revolutions in modern music as we play our ukuleles: the nocturnal vibration of the worms in our compost; our spirits suspended from the clouds by the thread of cup in sleeve tea bags; and the gliding flight of creativity whose propeller sounds like the sipping of enthusiastic tea drinkers.

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freeculture.org manifesto

transhumanist art manifesto [1]

the hedonistic imperitive (see bltc.com for muuuuch more on this view point)

the posthuman manifesto

future culture manifesto ('cyberpunk' orientated)

a general transhumanism manifesto

the cluetrain manifesto

wireless commons manifesto

free fonts manifesto

the mozilla manifesto

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Came accross that one while visiting the Library's graphic novel exhibition:

Eddie Campbell's (Revised) Graphic Novel Manifesto



There is so much disagreement (among ourselves) and misunderstanding (on the part of the public) around the subject of the graphic novel that it's high time a set of principles were laid down.


1. "Graphic novel" is a disagreeable term, but we will use it anyway on the understanding that graphic does not mean anything to do with graphics and that novel does not mean anything to do with novels. (In the same way that "Impressionism" is not really an applicable term; in fact it was first used as an insult and then adopted in a spirit of defiance.)



2. Since we are not in any way referring to the traditional literary novel, we do not hold that the graphic novel should be of the supposed same dimensions or physical weight. Thus subsidiary terms such as "novella" and "novelette" are of no use here and will only serve to confuse onlookers as to our goal (see below), causing them to think we are creating an illustrated version of standard literature when in fact we have bigger fish to fry; that is, we are forging a whole new art which will not be bound by the arbitrary rules of an old one.



3. "Graphic novel" signifies a movement rather than a form. Thus we may refer to "antecedents" of the graphic novel, such as Lynd Ward's woodcut novels but we are not interested in applying the name retroactively.



4. While the graphic novelist regards his various antecedents as geniuses and prophets without whose work he could not have envisioned his own, he does not want to be obliged to stand in line behind William Hogarth's Rake's Progress every time he obtains a piece of publicity for himself or the art in general.



5. Since the term signifies a movement, or an ongoing event, rather than a form, there is nothing to be gained by defining it or "measuring" it. It is approximately thirty years old, though the concept and name had been bandied about for at least ten years earlier. As it is still growing it will in all probability have changed its nature by this time next year.



6. The goal of the graphic novelist is to take the form of the comic book, which has become an embarrassment, and raise it to a more ambitious and meaningful level. This normally involves expanding its size, but we should avoid getting into arguments about permissible size. If an artist offers a set of short stories as his new graphic novel, (as Eisner did with A Contract with God) we should not descend to quibbling. We should only ask whether his new graphic novel is a good or bad set of short stories. If he or she uses characters that appear in another place, such as Jimmy Corrigan's various appearances outside of the core book, or Gilbert Hernandez' etc. or even characters that we do not want to allow into our "secret society," we shall not dismiss them on this account. If his book no longer looks anything like comic books we should not quibble as to that either. We should only ask whether it increases the sum total of human wisdom.



7. The term graphic novel shall not be taken to indicate a trade format (such as "trade paperback" or "hardcover" or "prestige format"). It can be in unpublished manuscript form, or serialized in parts. The important thing is the intent, even if the intent arrives after the original publication.



8. The graphic novelists' subject is all of existence, including their own life. He or she disdains "genre fiction" and all its ugly clichés, though they try to keep an open mind. They are particularly resentful of the notion, still prevalent in many places, and not without reason, that the comic book is a sub-genre of science fiction or heroic fantasy.

9. Graphic novelists would never think of using the term graphic novel when speaking among their fellows. They would normally just refer to their "latest book" or their "work in progress" or "that old potboiler" or even "comic" etc. The term is to be used as an emblem or an old flag that is brought out for the call to battle or when mumbling an enquiry as to the location of a certain section in an unfamiliar bookstore. Publishers may use the term over and over until it means even less than the nothing it means already.

Furthermore, graphic novelists are well aware that the next wave of cartoonists will choose to work in the smallest possible forms and will ridicule us all for our pomposity.


10. The graphic novelist reserves the right to deny any or all of the above if it means a quick sale.

THE MAD MANIFESTO
by Cynthia Kitchen

we will not go mad!
we will not eat cows!
we will not support the golden arches!
we will not ordain ourselves burgher kings!
we will not excrete the brainwashed masses!
we will not stake our future on beefed up charges!
we will not kow-tow to the meat industry!
instead:

we will become vegetables!
we will juice ourselves!
we will stick to our celery roots!
we will reek our garlic breaths into the onion-skinned mouths of our lovers!
we will pepper our thoughts with salty kisses!
we will lose ourselves in the Garden of Eden!!!

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Wendell Berry

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.

And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.

When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.

Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.

Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.

Listen to carrion -- put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.

Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?

Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.

As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go.

Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

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http://feastofhateandfear.com/archives/andrade.html

CANNIBALISM = ACE

Do we maybe still want to do this? I think maybe I do...

xx

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Manifesto quiz - name that manifesto without resorting to google. I know when you use google. I can see you from here.



1. Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.

2. We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.

3. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

4. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

5. Every individual who, in the current state of affairs, drops a paper into the ballot box to choose a legislative authority or a executive authority is — perhaps not wittingly but at least out of ignorance, maybe not directly, but at least indirectly — a bad citizen. I repeat what I have been saying and take back not a single syllable of it.

6. Though we consider the religious forms and ideas of our fathers no longer adequate, the quest for the good life is still the central task for mankind. Man is at last becoming aware that he alone is responsible for the realization of the world of his dreams, that he has within himself the power for its achievement. He must set intelligence and will to the task.

7. Italians! Here is the program of a genuinely Italian movement. It is revolutionary because it is anti-dogmatic, strongly innovative and against prejudice.
For the political problem: We demand:
a) Universal suffrage polled on a regional basis, with proportional representation and voting and electoral office eligibility for women.

8. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

9. Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

10. No hymns will be sung.
No records will be played.
iPods will be left at home.
Rock bands will not rock.
Conductors will not take the podium.
Decks will not spin.
The needle will not drop.
The piano lid will not be lifted.

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2 - futurists, 3 - communist, 4 - USA, 5 - could be anarchist? 6 - sounds rather secular humanist..

also;

THE PUZZY POWER MANIFESTO

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5 out of 5 (Humanist was 5). Congratulations! Guesses for the others?

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8 sounds like a hacker manifesto that crawled out of a BBS in the eighties.

yes!

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"Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful."

go tautology!

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been re-looking at this project over at the ForPub meetings. Looks like the idea has legs and we are looking into the law etc in terms of copyright and how to put this all together. I imagine it could be great so yes, keep adding manifestos here!

Also - the quiz was amazing jane. could make a nice back of book or online quiz / newspaper quiz to hype the book.

anyway, really enjoying this thread. keep them coming.

R

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Italian futurist painter and musical composer Luigi Russolo
The Art of Noise
http://www.thereminvox.com/article/articleview/117
The Stalker Manifesto
http://digilander.libero.it/stalkerlab/ ... esting.htm
The Euston Manifesto
http://eustonmanifesto.org/the-euston-manifesto/
Dadaism By Tristan Tzara
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jenglish/Engl ... tzara.html
and
109 returns from the search of 'manifesto' into ubuweb
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_a=sp ... sp_f=UTF-8

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Luther Blisset Manifesto
http://www.altx.com/manifestos/blisset.html

Neoist Manifesto (purely visual)
http://neoist.org/neoist-manifesto.html
&
http://neoist.org/whatisneoism.html

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The Cloud appreciation society's manifesto (Swithun and I got a membership for Xmas):

WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.

We think that they are Nature’s poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since
everyone can have a fantastic view of them.


We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it.
Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.


We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of
a person’s countenance.


Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked.
They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul.
Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save on psychoanalysis bills.


And so we say to all who’ll listen:
Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!

I love them! I think we should become friends with the Idler.
x

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hey forest fringe are doing a one minute manifesto show in august, should we try and get this out for then?
D x

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