From HPOLKIN@UCSVAX.SDSU.EDU Wed May 31 20:51:39 PDT 1995
From: HPOLKIN@UCSVAX.SDSU.EDU (Harry Polkinhorn)
Date: 1 Jun 1995 03:49:55 GMT
Organization: Alternative-X (http://www.altx.com/)
1. Prescript: I have nothing to say.
2. Nothing counts any more; nothing ever did.
3. Culture is dead. It committed suicide because it had become
successful.
4. The liberation of language, a poetics of freedom of the word, the
Futurists' parole in liberta, the jouissance of schizophrenic
discourse, the transrational zaum of the Russians, all fit
perfectly into their preordained boxes, gagging them forever.
5. The violence of pure heterology runs rampant in the streets.
6. Poetry has no impact on people. Right when they think it does,
they are furthest from its transmuting power, to which the weak
look back in nostalgia.
7. Personhood is fictional.
8. There is no synaesthesia right around the corner to bail us out.
9. Only the foolish believe that technology has an autonomous status.
They rush into its arms expecting salvation and find only their
own asphyxiation.
10. In a zero-state world, you can't go on vacation any more.
11. All the so-called great achievements of our generation are
nothing; you can't distinguish between "them" and the versions of
them we are force-fed.
12. The artist has no public. The audience is bought and paid for.
13. After Auschwitz, poetry was written, but it might as well not have
been.
14. At the extreme end of representation, nothing remains, or what is
left is precisely that: remains.
15. The apotheosis of display ends up where it started: with less
value than that of a bad joke.
16. Our only chance is total denial.
17. Language is nothing more than a running back and forth.
18. Nihil obstat everything.
19. The king is dead.
20. Integration: all previous manifestoes are hereby declared null and
void.
[This manifesto, reprinted with the author's permission, was originally
published on paper by experiodiccist in Alabama, then by Mark Amerika,
the editor and publisher of Alternative-X.
Alternative-X (http://www.altx.com/) is recommended for its articles, interviews and manifestoes. The high quality of this site reflects a great deal of time and effort by the authors and artists and by Mark Amerika.
Thanks to Harry Polkinhorn and Mark Amerika for their good vibes. --Zeigen]