The Cyberpunk Project & Tristan Tzara
manifesto in two parts
Monsieur Aa The Antiphilosopher Sends Us This Manifesto
by Tristan Tzara 22nd May 1920
LONG LIVE
the undertakers of the combine!
Careful!
The moment has come when I should tell you I’ve been lying. If there is a system in the lack of system - that of my proportions I never apply it. In other words, I lie. I lie when I apply it, I lie when I don’t apply it, I lie when I write that I lie because I do not lie because I have lived the mirror
chosen from the profits of baccarat - from town to town - for myself has never been myself - for the saxophone wears like a rose the assassination of the viceral car driver - he’s made of sexual copper and leaves of racecourses. Thus drummed the maize, the alarm and pellagra
where the matches grow - both the insignifcant gesture and the decisive moment are attacks (I open the fan of knock-outs for the distillation of air that separates us)
- and with the words I put down on paper I enter, solemnly, into myself.
In the scalp of notions I implant my 60 fingers and brutally shake the curtains, the teeth, the bolts of their joints.
and my event the accidental colour of the first woman I touched with my eyes in these tentacular times. The bitterest of banditry is to finish one’s thought-out phrase. The banditry of the gramophone, the little anti-human mirage that I like in myself-because I believe it to be ridiculous and dishonest. But the bankers of language will always get their little percentage on the discussion.
The presence of (at least) one boxer is indispensible for a match- affiliated members of a gang of dadaist assassins have signed a self-protection contract for operations of this sort. Their number is extremely limited
- the presence of (at least) one singer for a duet,
or (at least) one signatory for a receipt, of (at least) one eye for a sight,
being absolutely indispensable. put the photographic plate of the face in the acid bath. the shocks that have sensitized it will beome visible and will surprise you.
Punch yourself in the face
CYBER DADA MANIFESTO
by The Cyberpunk Project 11th October 2003
DIGITIZE GITIZ THE LD WORLD
(a new life awaits you)
TECHNOLOGY IS SPEEDING AHEAD :
are you following the integrated golden horizons?
take technology
and see what it really is
REUSE EVER THING!
RYmake sculpture out of polystyrene, computers, plastic, metal, anything! Become a techno junky.
wear technology!
ANYONE can make or be art
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EXHIBIT ON YOURSELF
Glue your piece to Alan Bond’s front door!
right of access to all data graffiti artists:
START CYBER TAGGING
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work things out for yourself
go beyond current standards and values and make your own. Master computers and you will have hacking power over banks, governments, and the military through technology.
subversive cultures are starting to seep from the rotten foundations of our society - cut their hydraulic lines. Civilization destroys the world so lets digitze it and save the entire human society on mainframe laser desk.
humans and the
JUNK they produce will be sealed inside a huge computer
FORGET THE MEAT OF YOUR BODIES
full-on brain experiences await you inside a computer. Even have sex with a computer. Interface! Your true life and aspirations are inhibited by the weak flesh of your body - your body is a burden. It is simply meat. Wetware can enhance it.
once all people, objects, senses and experiences are digitized onto laser disk (with backup copies) the real world can finally breathe a sigh of relief as man has disappeared forever. He has
already tried to create his own environment, now the potential is here! Organic life is no longer a valid lifestyle. Fully synthesized environments where all physical and emotional feelings can be chemically simulated
SOON IT WILL BE
POSSIBLE
to inject a biological computer to program your brain, extend your life, anything. This is your future. You are your consciousness, don’t let a physical existence fool you. Physical bodies are now superseded, replace your body with machine and computer components. And become superhuman!
self sufficient society, solar powered. We can now venture to the limits of the cosmos because we are not bound by earthly dimensions. Cybernetics does not discriminate by looks, race, disabilities, sex, species because it is pure brain to brain communication.
jack in your neurons
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CYBER DADA.
The new species are cyborgs, man/machines, precise superior flawless beings to house our consciousness and create a new world.
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learn technology DON’T BE AFRAID
by wearing circuitry you will represent the new age. take electronics apart and see what they are. learn electronics, computer programming:
the arts of the future
don’t be intimidated by the flashing lights and buzzing, and computers that look like microwave ovens!
Master technology so it wont beat you as it rapidly fills the world. Technology controls the world so if you control technology... THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING, BUT IT IS THE BEGINNING OF A PERFECT TECHNO WORLD. STOP reviving old cultures
HAVE NEW ONES
the youth of today have become complacent and apathetic, easily controlled by advertising, the media, unscrupulous governments. Let the top of hierarchy know that they can’t use technology to control us, but that we are fully integrated with technology and it is ours.
DIGITIZE THE WORLD!!!
PERSO
it’s time to interface with technology and understand it. KNOW IT
ONALLY get TECH. out of the establishment and into the streets. Dive in CYBERSPACE where all feelings and physical realities can be psycho-chemically simulated. DON’T BE AFRAID: EXPOSE YOUR CIRCUITRY COME TO TERMS WITH TODAY’S MATERIALS
the future will come whether you like it or not
so be ready for it
PAINTING HAS DIED AGAIN :
stop using pure materials like o it will not last in a cyber world.
ely old oil and canvas. n (which will come whether you like it or not)
CYBER DADA IS POPULAR CULTURE, IT’S TODAY’S SOCIETY,
“I shut, I open, I spit. Careful!” “You are your consciousness, don’t let a physical existence fool you.”