THE BODY AS A MESSAGE
Activism, clothing, reuse, repurpose, resist.
Workshops, interventions, happenings, action.
ABOUT
2 humans, Tottyfuckshame and Milesinfinityloop, making a creative response to the urgent times we find ourselves in. Working to encourage and facilitate others in a movement for positive resistance.
Below is a long list of random thoughts, quotes and notes, taken from a live document made collaboratively in the early stages of the project. This is as it comes directly from a digital sketchbook. Unedited notes taken from inspiration, to remember things by.
WIP
EMPATHY
COMPASSION
RATIONALITY
COMPLEXITY
STAY AWAKE
FUCK SHAME
RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW
UNKNOWN FUTURES - REUSE WHAT ALREADY EXISTS TO COMMUNICATE WHAT WE DO NOT YET KNOW.
NOT FOR SALE. EXCHANGE FOR GOODS, SERVICES OR CREDIT.
LIBERATION
POST CAPITALISM
AUTOMATION - FREEDOM - UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
"Anarchy is the mother of Order," Proudon
Acceleration left
Action not angst
Break it Make it
Complexity rather than reductive clarity
Counter culture / counter current
COUNTER CULTURE
Detournement ("rerouting", "hijacking")
Do it yourself
DIY
Work together. Solve problems. Be creative
Enraged
Ideas in flux
Knowledge is nutrient.
ENGAGE WITH THE MACHINE
Make - Break - Make - Break
IMAGINEER
Engage with the machine
Logo
The question . . .
Utopian Renaissance
Create Utopian Renaissance
Reason in revolt
Post Work
ALT-FUTURE
Avant-Guard
CIRSle
COPYLEFT
CREATE ALT-FUTURE
CREATE
DISBELIEVE
ENDLESS EVERYTHING
Everything is Awesome
EVOLVE
EVOLVE-LUTION
ENLIGHTENED SOMETHING
FANTASY
FREE YOUR MIND
FREE YOUR IMAGINATION
FREE YOUR IMAGINATION & Create Utopia
FREEDOM
FUTURE // NATURE
FUCK SHAME FUCK RELIGION // SEX AND BLASPHEMY
GLOBAL Groundswell
Imagination Collective
Inflame Imagination
Here And Now
Hyperstition
IGNITE
IDENTITY
IMAGINE
Liberation
Make your own culture
Meta
Mobilise
Modern love
NEW WORLD _ _ _
New horizon
NEW
The New
Never settle down
Never give up
Never
OPEN YOUR MIND
PARTISAN
POWER FANTASY IDENTITY FREEDOM
POWER
protagonist
Radical Change
Reason in Revolt
REUSE / REIMAGINE / RECREATE /
RECLAIM
Superhuman
SLAVE
Seek The TRUTH
BORN TO BE A SLAVE
They Live
They Live . We Sleep
Transform Reality
Transformation
Time
Unknown Worlds
Universal
Utopia Now
Utopia in the UK
vice versa Vi Subversa Vi SubVersa
WE
We are the People We’ve been waiting for
We are the dreamers
WEAPONISE CREATIVITY
Its not you its we
POLITICS AND REALITY
THOUGHT COLLECTIVE
SHIFT
PARADIGM SHIFTER
WORLD VIEW
UNDERSTAND OVERSTAND
FREE YOUR IMAGINATION
ALL OF US
Disorientation
TOMORROW IS OPEN
SUBVERT DOMINANT PARADIGMS
FELLOW …. ODDFELLOWS
Surplus population
Dissolve cultural barriers
Cooperate, share, understand, universal race
compression, reduction exaggeration, ….. what is the opposite?
HETERODOX??
Fertile … non-homogeneity
Boundaries traversed
Work is the blackmail of survival
One vast whole
Community not class
Preserve difference - coexist
Respect difference
Threaten the grand narrative of emancipation and enlightenment… sympathy and hope.
IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE FUTURE TO BE DANGEROUS
OUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN
The lives of others,
We need hope without optimism // continuity and friendship
I AM NOT AN ENTREPRENEUR - worker, employee, nonenterprising, non-violent, administrator,
language=money ... Both can be Everything and nothing, and they can also be the same thing.
Radical skepticism…
Words find action in dialogue
I do not have to be my own boss - NONENTERPRISE
REJECT ENTREPRENEURIAL PROMISE REFUSE TO BE SET IN COMPETITION WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
RISK AVERSE
PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
Dogma-free
Glamorous & threatening - ‘without status envy we cannot have glamour’
thinking doing imagining
Wreck patriarchal body politic
Pro-pro, Ante-anti.
ANTI ANTI
Political not personal.
movement.
Cultural is political.
Post political is the most political (nina power) - post colonial is the most colonial, (ash sarkar)
Bifo: Occupy = movement of the workers of the facebook factory
Occupy catastrophe is our best possibility.
WITNESS, try to understand
Do not allow more crimes without witnesses….
No word is more empty than democracy today
Democracy is the camouflage of financialised dictatorship.
Psychopathology of our time - Empathy is the victim of hyper-vertualisation and precariatisation
Begin the project... identity should mean re- defining as other. Refuse to belong. Create solidarity, do not seek belonging.
UNIONISE / UNION OF OTHERS
UNIVERSAL REASON IS BEYOND CULTURE.
Go beyond identity.
Other yourself and find solidarity.
If we have a voice, we must speak for the voiceless.
We created it lets take it over.
Politics is dead, Politics is the art of decision, we cannot decide anything if we never have time to absorb, process, critique
I wish the earth was a kind mother,...
After the last border there is no land
.. Body Politic..
Three feathers - greed hatred and dillusion…
Legitimised crime vs words.
Threaten the grand narrative
Resuscitate empathy
Trigger empathy
Bystander, understander,
Love - understanding -
Open - tenderhearted bravery - smile at fear -
Love is natural and real -
It takes strength to be gentle and kind.
Shopping is civil war - the theft is hidden
The words as an instrument of comfort and security game - the rational prediction from available facts game - Wittgenstein
FUCK THE SELF ATTRIBUTION FALLACY - FUCK NEOLIBERALISM - FUCK MERITOCRACY - FUCK DESPAIR FATIGUE
STAY IN SCHOOL COS ITS THE BEST
escape the tyranny of time starved life by taking social leisure time to explore humanity, love and unity.
What if you could create a form of subculture so offensive it cannot be sold back to you.
You have to be incredibly active to overcome your own prejudices….
… the devils work is done by designers for capitalism.
History is not just a record of what happened and why it happened, it is a provocation of the imagination - Zeldin……... In history, all the time that violence was avoided, curiosity won.