Monsieur Aa (The Antiphilosopher)
Sends Us This
MANIFESTO Tristan Tzara May 22, 1920
LONG
LIVE
the undertakers of the combine!
EVERY ACT IS A
REVOLVER SHOT
both the insignificant gesture and the decisive moment are attacks (I open the fan of the knock-outs for the distillation of the air that separates us) - with the words put down on paper I enter, solemnly, into myself.
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In the slap of notions I implant my 60 fingers and brutally shake the curtains, the teeth, the bolts of their joints.
I shut,
I open, I spit.......
!
a ........C
! l u f e r
The moment has come when I should tell you I’ve been lying. If there’s a system in the lack of system that of my proportion
I never apply it.
I
In other words,
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 of my father chosen from the profits of baracts from town to town
for myself has never been myself -
for the saxophone wears like a rose, the assasination of the visceral car-driver he’s made of sexual copper
and leaves of racehorses.
Thus drummed the maize,
the alarm and pellagra
where the matches grow.
yes naturally
BUT DOESN’T EXIST.
Myself: mixture kitchen theater. Long live
the stretcher-bearers
of the convocations of ecstasies!
LYI IS
NG
Y S A
E
T S C
- which lasts longer than a second. There is nohing that lasts longer.
Idiots brood over the century then start all over again several centuries later -
1
10
Idiots remain
within the circle
for 10 years.
Idiots hover over
the dial of a year -
Myself (an idiot)
I stay
for five minutes.
THE CLAIM OF THE
D O BLO
to distribute in my body and my event the accidental colour of the first woman I touched with my eyes in these tentacular times. The bitterest 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 the language will always get their little percentage on the discussions.
Put the photographic plate of the face in the
ACID BATH
The shocks that have sensitized it will become visible and surprise you.
&
PUNCH YOURSELF
FACE
in the
&
E
DROP
DEA
D.
FLIP OVER
DIGITIZE THE WORLD (A new life awaits you).
TECHNOLOGY is speeding ahead:
ARE YOU
FOLLOWING THE GOLDEN
HORIZON?
Take technology apart and see what it really is! Reuse everything! Make sculpture out of polystyrene, computers, plastic, metal, anything! Become a techno junky. Wear technology!
ANYONE CAN MAKE OR BE
ART
Exhibit on yourself, Exhibit in the streets, Glue your piece to Alan Bond’s front door! Right of access to all data
GRAFITTI
ARTISTS start cyber-tagging
DON’T BE RUDE:
talk to your fax machine. 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.
PSYCHO
ACTIVE
DESIGNER
FOODS
Subversive cultures are starting to seep from the rotten foundations of our society cut their hydraulic lines. Civilization destroys the world so lets digitize it and save the entire human society on mainframe laser disk. All 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.
INTER FACE
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. Cyborg implants bring you closer to true experience. Jack in to neuro-circuits.
Once all people, objects, senses, and experiences are digitized onto laser disk (with backup copies) the real world can finally breathe a sign 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
SYNTHE SIZED
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
to complete expression and communication to self. Be free of disease, food, be totally efficient. Learn technology. Modern man’s aesthetic is grounded in pre 20th century decorativeness and over indulgent art theorising.
CYBER DADA The new aesthetic is computer generated
The new species are cyborgs, man/machines, precise superior flawless beings to house our consciousness and create a new world.
DON’T BE
AFRAID 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 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, and 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
(It’s time to interfeace with technology and understand it).
KNOW IT PERSONALLY
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 purely old materials like oil and canvas. It will not last in a cyber world.
(WHICH WILL COME WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT).
Art, life, and the world are becoming increasingly meaningless so
CYBER DADA IS POPULAR CULTURE, IT’S TODAY’S SOCIETY, AND IT’S FUTURE!
FLIP OVER