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Poetic Terrorism
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WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized
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pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earthworks as bizarre alien artifacts
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strewn in State Parks. Buglarize houses but instead of stealing, leave
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Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone & make them happy.
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Pick someone at random & convince them they're the heir to an enormous,
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useless & amazing fortune -- say 5000 square miles of Antarctica, or an
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aging circus elephant, or an orphanage in Bombay, or a collection of
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alchemical mss. Later they will come to realize that for a few moments
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they believed in something extraordinary, & will perhaps be driven as a
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result to seek out some more intense mode of existence.
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Bolt up brass commemorative plaques in places (public or private) where
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you have experienced a revelation or had a particularly fulfilling sexual
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experience, etc.
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Go naked for a sign.
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Organize a strike in your school or workplace on the grounds that it does
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not satisfy your need for indolence & spiritual beauty.
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Graffiti-art loaned some grace to ugly subways & rigid public monuments
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-- PT-art can also be created for public places: poems scrawled in
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courthouse lavatories, small fetishes abandoned in parks & restaurants,
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xerox-art under windshield-wipers of parked cars, Big Character Slogans
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pasted on playground walls, anonymous letters mailed to random or chosen
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recipients (mail fraud), pirate radio transmissions, wet cement...
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The audience reaction or aesthetic-shock produced by PT ought to be at
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least as strong as the emotion of terror - powerful disgust, sexual
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arousal, superstitious awe, sudden intuitive breakthrough, dada-esque angst
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-- no matter whether the PT is aimed at one person or many, no matter
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whether it is "signed" or anonymous, if it does not change someone's life
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(aside from the artist) it fails.
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PT is an act in a Theater of Cruelty which has no stage, no rows of
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seats, no tickets & no walls. In order to work at all, PT must
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categorically be divorced from all conventional structures for art
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consumption (galleries, publications, media). Even the guerilla
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Situationist tactics of street theater are perhaps too well known & expected
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now.
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An exquisite seduction carried out not only in the cause of mutual
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satisfaction but also as a conscious act in a deliberately beautiful life
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-- may be the ultimate PT. The PTerrorist behaves like a
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confidence-trickster whose aim is not money but CHANGE.
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Don't do PT for other artists, do it for people who will not realize (at
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least for a few moments) that what you have done is art. Avoid
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recognizable art-categories, avoid politics, don't stick around to argue,
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don't be sentimental; be ruthless, take risks, vandalize only what MUST be
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defaced, do something children will remember all their lives -- but don't
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be spontaneous unless the PT Muse has possessed you.
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Dress up. Leave a false name. Be legendary. The best PT is against the
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law, but don't get caught. Art as crime; crime as art.
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Pirated from
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from Temporary Autonomous Zone
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by
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Hakim Bey 1991 Autonomedia
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