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Seizing The Media
The Immediast Underground Pamphlet Series
Spring 1992
Immediast International - New York City / Amsterdam /
Seattle
Version 1.1 N Copyright; 1992. Public Domain.
SEIZING THE MEDIA is a work in progress. The version
that you are holding is the second to circulate. As
Immediast thinking and strategy develops, this leaflet
will grow and change, and new versions will circulate.
IMMEDIAST projects are against all forms of coercive
communication, cultural monologue and media control.
We acknowledge non-violent public insurgence as a
legitimate response to sustained violations by media
and state. We recognize the air as public property,
and the signals that travel through it to be the
domain of the public.
Version 1.1 was first released in New York City March
1992 - 320 Copies
Version 1.0 was first released in Amsterdam January
1992 - 250 Copies
2nd print Run of Version 1.1 April 1992 - 1000 Copies
Open Media PO Box 2726 Westfield NJ 07091
Hypertexture by dimitri
Seizing the Media
Asian philosophy instructs enlightenment. But given
our daily exposure to a barrage of persuasive
messages, monologues, sales pitches, come-ons, and
uninformative hyper-sensational news, common sense and
intimacy are tough enough a struggle to maintain.
We can each see how extended exposure to television
and mass media dulls people with a sense of numbness
and nausea. From every public space a monologue of
coercion penetrates our senses and rapes our
attention. Wherever we look, wherever we listen,
wherever we go: the pornography of billboards, bus
side placards, subway cards, glaring storefront signs
and displays, the glut of junk mail, stupid fly-by
beach planes and blimps, coupons, obnoxious bumper
stickers and breast pins, embarrassing service forms,
plastic banners and ribbons, absurd parades,
street-corner handouts, windsheild wiper flyers,
matchbook ads, business cards, screaming radios, the
daily papers, every nanosecond of television, the
package wrapped around everything we buy - from the
label in our underwear to the robot computer that
calls us in our homes - only the upper atmosphere and
the ocean floor offer any sanctuary from America's
ecology of coercion. At every turn the monologues
drone on, imbedding the psychological mutagens that
coax us to become pathetic customers and unquestioning
flag wavers. At every turn we are under subtle attack.
The media serve the interests of the State and other
corporations, but never the interests of the public.
The media's screen of agression and seduction is
designed to mesmerize and captivate the largest
possible sector of population whose attention is then
sold like scrap metal to advertisers and gang raped by
their slogans, jingles, and manic images. Protected by
an uncrossable media moat, agents of the State profit
from war and relax behind a web of information laws,
censorship powers, and vapid explanations that swat
the public of detailed intelligence and mass
resistance.
So long as we do not control our own government, our
own state, and our own broadcast media - the mirror
with which we reflect on the reality of lives - we
will continue to be forced to see fun-house mirror
distortions of ourselves projected onto a dumpster of
products that promise to make us each desirable,
sophisticated, and correct. At every turn we are under
attack.
Incest Of Corporations And The State
The State controls information, debt, and violence and
targets collective identity. Corporations control
commodification, work, and media and target individual
identity. Both deploy the same psychological
strategies for imbedding the public with their
messages and directives. Never were their common
strategies more transparent than when US
disinformation and propaganga service, the infamous
USIA, decided to step-up its psy-warfare campaign
against the people of Cuba in the Spring of 1989.
Until then, attempts to psychologically destabalize
the Cuban people were comcentrated in the broadcasts
of Radio Marti, the Florida based, Government owned
pirate radio station that to this day illegally
transmits propaganda and disinformation into domestic
Cuban radios. In the Spring of 1989, the USIA added
images to their psy-war arsenal and began transmitting
tele-broadcasts from a hot air balloon controlled from
the Key West signals station. Sibling of Radio Marti,
the project was dubbed TV Marti.
A few things are to be held in mind here. First, after
the Creel Commission saturated Americans with pro-war
propaganda during WWI, the level of public disgust was
so intense that laws were enacted forbidding the State
from ever subjecting the public to its propaganda
again. Thus, the USIA's Voice of America propaganda
broadcasts that we can hear today in Amsterdam,
Berlin, and Prague, we are protected against hearing
here on our own turf. Propaganda is so disorienting
and confusing that Americans have actually passed laws
forbidding it here in its crude verifiable forms.
The fact that we must now face and destroy is that
advertising, entertainment, and news have become the
government's Trojan Horse into the psyche of the
public. What was TV Marti's first propaganda broadcast
aimed at the minds of the Cuban people? MTV. Think
about it: The USIA's first broadcast of
tele-propaganda delivered MTV's corporate rock videos!
At every turn we are under attack.
State Private Media
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1. Representation is reality. 1.
Representation is reality.
2. Secrecy is security. 2. Ownership
is identity.
3. Violence empowers the violent. 3. To consume
is to connect.
The Assault Of Spectacle Media is twofold: while
immersing the public in a barrage of coercive
messages, commercial media serves as an accomplice to
political felony, murder, and treason by censoring the
details and dimensions of State activity from
democratic processes and public intelligence. Culture,
awareness, and democratic power are what we surrender
for an internal economy that is dependent on the
relentless preparation and sale of public attention
for penetration by corporate and State advertising.
The Immediasts stand in solidarity with all groups and
individuals who act in opposition to this situation
and whose work assists omnicultural vocality, public
production libraries, public media and an open state.
Methods of Mind Control
Immediast research has turned up two invaluable
sources revealing State tactics of behavior
modification, subliminal manipulation, and mind
control. The first is the Psychological Warfare Manual
authored and distributed by the CIA to the Nicaraugan
terrorists, the Contras. The instruction manual
directives state:
In effect, the human being should be considered the
priority objective in a political war. And conceived
as the military target of guerrilla war, the human
being has its most critical point in his mind. Once
his mind has been reached, the "political animal" has
been defeated, without necessarily receiving
bullets...
This conception of guerrilla warfare as political war
turns Psychological Operations into the decisive
factor of the results. The target, then, is the minds
of the population, all the population: our troops, the
enemy troops and the civilian population...
Communication is a way to ask and give the answer to
the same question.
The manual goes on to instruct its readers how to
effectively deceive, blackmail, and assasinate
individuals antagonistic to the imperatives of the
State.
Our second source of documentation exposing State led
programs of media subversion is found in the video
documentaries and published articles of Fred Landis.
Landis first discovered the presence of mind control
tactics in commercial broadcast media by monitoring
daily newspapers produced by the CIA in Chile in 1973.
His resulting Ph.D dissertation outlined CIA tactics
of subliminal manipulation and mind control and was
used against the CIA in Volume 7 of the 1975 Hearings
of the Senate Church Committee; "The CIA and the
Media," and in the 1977-1978 Hearings of the House
Intelligence Committee. Landis' observations and
research exposed a now easily identifiable method
deployed by the State to psychologically destabilize
and subliminally coerce a given population. Based on
the cross- cultural linguistic theory and research
generated by Charles Osgood (funded by the CIA), the
government deploys the following method, called
Semantic Differential:
* First, media agents identify cultural symbols which
have deep emotional associations within a target
population's everyday domestic, cultural, and
spiritual lives. Agents then use these symbols as
in-roads to the people's unconscious and manipulate
these symbols as subliminal imbeds which can be
antagonized or resonated in accordance with situations
being manufactured by the CIA. "Indirect attacks on
government ministers employ the juxtaposition of
photos of the targeted official with unrelated
headlines, subliminal propaganda, and pre-selected
word associations. By simply placing the key word near
a photo of government leaders, a crude behaviorist
attempt is made to condition new associations and new
values to familiar personalities."
* "The combined effect of word associations (derived
from the semantic differential) with subliminal imbeds
is so strong that it displaces any other message" -
even ones which disprove the connotations and meaning
of the effect.
State tactics of media control deliver subliminal and
disinforming directives in the guise of news.
Targeting deep psychological imbeds present in every
culture, the State instills shock, terror, confusion,
sexual arousal, awe or uncertainty by antagonizing or
coupling these imbeds with sensational headlines
associating such things as Satanism with enemies, and
religious miracles and good luck with leaders
implanted or puppetted by the State. The symbols
change from culture to culture. During the US Supreme
Court Nomination Hearings of Clarence Thomas, the New
York Times ran a cover photo (Sunday 13 October 1991)
of Senator Hatch holding up a copy of The Exorcist and
associating it with Anita Hill! This was not an
accusation, it was a psychological tactic. According
to the semantic differential, the deep and negative
feelings experienced in people by such associations
outlast evidence which demonstrates their falsehood
and perversion.
Immediast Tactics
Asian philosophy instructs self-realization and
awakening, but when under attack, Asian philosophy
also instructs methods for overpowering an assailant
with the force of his own assault. We herald this
approach. Immediast tactics aim to neutralize the key
images and text being imbedded into the public by the
media and the State. Our work is the liberation of
public space from the broadcasts of corporations,
businesses, and departments of the State; and the
abolition of public captivity as spectators to the
ceaseless barrage of billboards, manipulative images,
State constructed news and propaganda. The question
is, how we can lockjaw the spectacle with its own
force?
Returning all airborne commercial broadcast media to
public direction, access, and control will naturally
release cultural forces difficult at present to
imagine - the mind turned inside out won't be a viral
imageslogan on a Gannet billboard, it will be living
people on the airwaves and in the streets.
We interpret Freedom of Speech to mean the facilitated
ability to both access and produce information and
cultural material through the development of public
production libraries where we can each and all produce
cultural print, radio, television, and radio broadcast
materials in library studios equipped with desk top
publishing facilities, graphics technology,
multi-track audio recorders, film and video cameras,
and editing equipment. Freedom to broadcast can be in
the power of the public. Corporations can be evicted
from the airwave. We can charge them staggering rent
for the low end frequencies if we want to. The State,
under relentless public scrutiny, can be kept nude of
its power to hide from, indebt, and subvert the
public. Democracy can be as open and dynamic as our
public libraries.
Of course we anticipate struggle on the part of the
State and corporations. Let them struggle, doing so
opens up new fissures and points of access. In the
meantime, we call on you to engage in your own
actions. We call on artists, writers, posterists,
activists, and networkers from all countries to assist
with our project. Vocalize your disgust. Speak up.
Fight back. Liberate the public spaces in the zones
that most need it - the ones in your everyday life.
Organize Networker Congresses. Strike. Send to our
journal, Noospapers, your statements, manifestoes,
critiques, tracts, tactics, poetry, posters, collages,
documentation, graphics and art. Together we can begin
the liberation of public spaces and end our forced
captivity in a spectator democracy.
Revolution And Insurgence
Revolution is the overthrow of government; our aim is
to overthrow the media. Armed insurrection is
unnecessary in so far as it is words and images which
are shot at us, not bullets. But the words and images
which keep us in bondage, which inundate us with the
political muzak of disinformation, halk baked
scandals, shock, empty desires, and subliminal imbeds
are what enable State and corporate men to shoot
bullets at people outside our borders, slaughtering
people like you and me by the thousands in Iraq, in
Panama, in Grenada, in El Salvador, in Libya, in
Nicaragua, in Africa. With the media in the hands of
the public, State agents who order secret wars,
election riggings, destabilization programs and other
covert actions will be forced into open view and the
democratic control of the public.
The New Servant Class
Establishing democratic legitimacy in America begins
not with overthrowing our governments, but with
diminishing them to the role of public servants. After
all, in America, State agents are still employees of
the public. The Immediast goal is to make government
officials the only servants in our society, the
audience of public expressions, the assistants of
public cultures, economy, and the archivists of public
histories. The legitimization of democratic government
will come from multicultural public movements, not
State initiatives. The airwaves are public domain to
be used by and for the public - and public movements
will converge through the establishment of national
public media - liberation of the airwaves. This is our
work for the 90s.
The Case Of USA vs. John Poindexter
The outcome of the federal court case USA vs. John
Poindexter has pushed us from long standing civilian
silence to insurgent Immediast action. Look carefully:
North and Poindexter reversed their felonies by
proving that extended media exposure destroyed case
witnesses' ability to think independently of the words
and images the media had saturated them with. This is
now American history, a legal precedent. Admitting the
mind-control action of mass media protected State
felons from public law. The precedent of USA vs. John
Poindexter thus establishes that:
Spectacle representations derived from actual public
events manipulate perception and control the natural
outcome of our events.
Spectacle media disables the public to think and
perceive freely of the biases imbedded by exposure to
mass media noise and images.
Spectacle media serves as a moat protecting the
National Security State from public participation and
democratic scrutiny. Meanwhile, North and Poindexter,
both felons, are back on the streets again.
These crimes and their accomplices in the White House,
CIA, NSA, CNN, DOD, ABC, USIA, MTV, CBS etc are too
much to tolerate given the increasing violence, debt,
recession, and systemic deception forced upon us every
day by the government and consumer media.
Our drive to connect, to create, to love and make
love, to play, to communicate, to share, to live
freely, to participate or be left in peace, to
represent our own desires and author our own cultures
and live with meaning that we together create are
under relentless invasion and constant assault. The
time to change has come.
We no longer tolerate being besieged with manipulative
messages that we don't want to hear and cannot respond
to. We no longer tolerate an inaccessible State that
censors, blocks, denies information to the public. We
no longer tolerate the spectacle that ultimately
serves to absolve criminals like Poindexter, Bush,
North and their lickspittles from crimes of
international violence and domestic debt. The time has
come to turn the ecology of coercion on itself. The
time has come to veto, overwhelm, and subvert the
messages of all airborne commercial broadcast media
until they are returned to complete public direction,
access, and control. How long should we wait to
liberate public spaces from the blister of billboards
and advertisements? The air is public domain, and the
airwaves are ours to hear our own voices, see our own
colors, enjoy our own conversations, and celebrate in
the vast community of cultures. Remember: dialogue
offsets the hegemony, and intimacy empowers.
The time has come to restore the democratic power and
public space that have been coopted and colonized by
commercial media.
Celebrate public culture. Reconnect. Seize the media.
The air is yours.
In 1992 we begin the work that needs to be done. Asian
philosophy instructs enlightenment.
Towards An Ecology Of Information - The Immediast
Approach
0. Participating in the proliferation,
crosspollination, and consolidation of
counter-commercial print, audio, visual, modem,
activist, and correspondence media.
1. Documenting the basic sources, dynamics, and
effects of corporate and State media control. Exposing
methods of mind control, behavior modification, and
image imbedding.
2. Openly discussing tools and methods that strengthen
immunization and freedom from deceptive, disinforming,
and subliminal media exposures. Upgrading public media
literacy to decode, produce, and broadcast in all
communications media.
3. Open cultural expressions, education, networking
and resistance.
4. Reclaiming public sovereignty of the airwaves.
5. The liberation of all public space from government,
corporate, and business messages.
6. Public takeover of all airborne commercial
broadcast media and the creation of public production
libraries.
7. Liberation as glasnost: the emergence of democratic
public communications and media networks.
The Immediast Approach
The Immediasts invision liberation changes in public
access and cultural freedom. We draw from the powers
of public domain and personal freedom to counter the
systemic penetrations of commercial media into
individual privacy through public space.
Our actions are exerted through immediate and
unpredictable means. We believe that the institutional
restraints imposed on social change drain cultural
growth and momentum rather than nurture their
innovations and initiatives. We recognize insurgence
as a legitimate response to sustained violation. We
experience decommodification of consciousness and
liberation of public space as simultaneous projects,
that occur together, side by side, and at the same
time. Immediast activity releases public insurgence
mounting to these ends, and works not only to reclaim
the inviolability of public attention and
intelligence, but to equip and serve them with the
technology for cultural freedom and democratic power.
This is not a theoretical exercise aimed at
intellectuals and folk on the left, this is about
equiping all sectors of the public to engage in the
development of a public media and an open State.
1.Civilization has known no golden age. When people
organize to create powers greater than any one
person's ability to manage or maintain, power is used
to advantage the few and control the many. Remember
that human slavery was a brisk business in the United
States until little more than 100 years ago. Saudi
Arabia practiced slavery until the 1960s.
2. In industrial societies where people are organized
into physical production, physical forces are used to
control the public and, in turn, used by the public to
vanquish over-concentrations of resources and power.
In Information societies where populations are subject
to abstract economies and manipulated by a landscape
of images, infotainment, and advertising people can
seize democratic management of their political,
cultural, and educational lives by gaining control of
media. Such is the heart of Immediast theory, art, and
action.
3. Revolution is the overthrow of government by its
forced subjects; Immediaism is the seizure of media by
its captive audience. The Immediast presence will
amplify until all airborne corporate and commercial
broadcast media are under complete public direction,
access, and control.
Towards And Immediast International
I. Immediast actions, art, and insurgent networking
reach their first sphere of realization in the
development of public production libraries and the
complete public seizure of all airborne commercial
broadcast media. We believe that consummate upgrades
in the structure of social, cultural and political
life can only occur by public action outside the
channels of delay and diffusion operative in State
institutions. Remember USA vs. Poindexter. Remeber
Dept. of Defense vs. The Nation, Village Voice, Mother
Jones, The Progressive, and Pacifica Radio et all.
Remember.
We have zero interest in passively watching the
collapse of America's two-wing business party that
markets Leaders as a set of images and vapid patriotic
sentiments that can be grasped by a first grader
through three word bumper stickers and 20 second prime
time TV commercials. Our goal is to liberate public
intelligence from such inane violations of space, time
and attention. Our efforts rest when Leaders, business
party or otherwise, are public servants whose every
plan, project, and viewpoint is under relentless
accountability and scrutiny to an uninhibited public
press. Subscription government, public media, and an
open state are what we're after.
By abolishing commercial imperatives, press pooling,
and censorship, media accessed and directed by the
public paralyzes State ability to conceal covert
actions like Iran/Contra or the actions leading up to
the invasion of Panama and the abduction of that
country's figurehead. Domestically, we aim to collapse
the ecology of coercion that depends on buying and
selling public attention through advertising - and the
stupor, numbness, bigotry, and general ignorance it
promotes. When our work is done, advertising and
billboards will fly beside the Soviet flag in the
museum of dead totalitarian experiments.
II. Immediast projects advance cultural ecologies that
facilitate public education, access and creativity. We
support efforts to expand, defend, and upgrade public
space as free space.
The real oppressiveness we experience is an oppression
against our cultures, awareness, and democratic power.
Our revulsion with the violence of the State and
coercion of the media restrains our impulse to employ
like meaures against the people whose work it is to
perpetuate the present system. It is our greater drive
for liberation from these conditions and life in
fuller freedom tht directs our actions towards
systemic change rather than impeachment,
incarceration, or execution of individuals, though
these may inevitably occur by non-immediasts.
>From the vantage point of public media we can strip
State agents of all power beyond accountable public
service, insuring that oppression has no voice and
coercion no media. Public media can gently remove the
trump card of "National Security" from the hands of
the NSA, DOD, CIA, FBI, DOE, etc, and begin organizing
a democracy while dismantling the warheads of
America's covert State. As the people of the Russian
commonwealth have vanquished the central monologue
controlling their lives and culture, so too will we
squelch the studios of coercion that prevent our
democracy, violate our intelligence, disrupt our
space, and sell our attention. This we will do by
reclaiming the public airwaves.
Creating Public Production Libraries - An Immediast
Project
If literacy measures people's ability to read and
write, people living in information societies are
media illiterate - unequiped to decode the effects of
media on intelligence and intimacy and unable to write
in the language of broadcasting. While the media's
ecology of coercion assuages public desire to
participate in the media by emphasizing the
bottom-line significance of public polls, Gallop & its
pathetic epigones merely totalize a few public neurons
into the status of a collective brain. How many of
your comrades and kin have ever participated is a
Gallup poll, anyway?
Public seizure of all commercial broadcast media
establishes what public production libraries nurture:
liberation from advertising, the decommodification of
public attention, the upgrade of public intelligence,
the development of media literacy, the documentation
of public productions, facilitated cultural
expression, the termination of covert State action,
violence, propaganda, and media control, and the
inviolable ground for a public media and open state.
Such are the aims of all Immediast plans and projects.
Public production libraries will be built in
sisterhood with the public libraries that now exist.
Within each production library will be the facilities
to produce print, audi, visual, and database material.
"Librarians" will serve as technicians, maintainance,
and repair people. Production libraries will give
people a larynx through which to speak. The media
seized, corporations silenced, and the State under
relentless scrutiny, we will reconect and celebrate
who we are.
III. Regardless of their ostensibly radical message,
alternative media have generally reproduced the
dominant spectacle-spectator relation. The point is to
undermine it - to challenge the conditioning that
makes people susceptible to media manipulation in the
first place. Which ultimately means challenging the
social organization that produces that conditioning,
that turns people into spectators of prefabricated
adventures because they are prevented from creating
their own. - Ken Knabbs, "The War and the Spectacle",
Retrofuturism 15.
During recent years, artists and intellectuals have
stopped talking about Orwell and have begun talking
back to the real media. Collectives have formed and
ink has flowed. With few exceptions, the main gripe
articulated has been against media misrepresentation
and censorship. Thinkers like Chomsky and Parenti have
gone so far as to discuss the underlying mechanisms
used by the media to control perception, "manufacture
consent", and modify public behavior. Who, however,
has presented any clear plans or proposals for
overcoming the hegemony of US State and corporate
broadcasting? The Immediasts are only the beginning.
Recent activist initiatives have begun targeting the
public vulnerability to news, images, infotainment,
and the pus of coercive images that we all wallow in
daily. All such critiques seem to presume that a
sudden outburst of free thinking and artistic
disruption will somehow wheedle, cajole, or enlighten
the snakes coming out of the media Medusa. With even
less telos are those who devote their academic
scrutiny to media watch-dog activity, vulturing over
the lies and propaganda as our history is diswritten.
Significant as their efforts, newsletters and intent
are, media reform in response to public pressure will
never and can never reorient the media's fundamental
activity of preparing and commodifying public
attention for penetration by corporate advertisers.
Alternative viewpoints find airtime only if the
corporate hegemons are convinced that they can
captivate an untapped public sector. Its always about
markets, never about movements.
While diligent media activism can and eventually will
alter media representations of misgyny, racism,
homophobia, and displays of violence, sisyphean is the
hope that anything short of public insurgence can
restructure the ecology of coercion systemic to our
spectacle culture and Security State. Because
advertising is persuasion and propaganda is news,
"challenging the conditioning that makes people
susceptible to media manipulation" - to quote Ken
Knabb's tract in the recent issue of Retrofuturism
Magazine - is like challenging the air to reject
pollutants. People perceive that McDonalds and Burger
King, republicans and democrats, coke and pepsi, are
actually alternatives to one another because the
imperatives of commercial media are to commodify
choice, operate through immersion, and totalize public
perception. There is no escape, no sanctuary, no
retreat. Only deluge and bombardment, and the desire
and addiction that come with imbeds left by long term
over-exposure.
Immediast tactics are not against challenging the
conditioning that make people passive consumer of
spectacle politics and a culture of coercion; we are
against allowing our projects to stop at either
personal immunization or watchdog activity which are
both only defensive positions. The first asks us to
mutate to the degraded environment, the second merely
documents it. Implicit in both approaches is an
inertia about media's fundamental activity of
captivating, preparing, and selling public attention
to advertisers.
In the 20th century, he who controls the screen
controls consciousness, information and thought. The
screen is a mirror of your mind. If you're passively
watching screens, you're being programmed. If you're
editing you're own screen, you're in control of your
mind.
Americans voluntarily stick their amoeboid faces
toward the screen seven hours a day and suck up
information that Big Brother is putting there.
Americans spend more time looking at monitors than
they do gazing into the eyes of family and friends. -
Timothy Leary
IV. The Immediast counter-offensive studies and exerts
tactics that direct the spectacle against itself. Our
rage and disgust are rooted in our bondage as captive
audience and forced spectators. Every billboard is a
repulsion to encounter. Every commercial that rapes
our attention is no less defiling an experience than
the tourniquet of yellow ribbons that strangled out
American information and scrutiny during the 42 days
the US slaughtered Iraqis.
Immediast tactics play on the immediacy of information
systems and experiment with ways to direct them
against themselves. STaggering as our situation has
become, it is still only people and machines that
maintain it; the first we will overcome, the second we
will seize.
Stopping the spectacle involves engaging directly with
it. Our preliminary work must neutralize the key
images and methods of coercion repeated through the
media and spectacle politics, while our final job is
to silence commercial media completely. The Immediast
International exists to provide these basic public
services.
The insurgent tactics of ACT UP, Earth First!, Art
Fux, the Sits, the Gorilla Girls, and the Weathermen
are rich with lessons. We see now that in a spectacle
society, paradigmatic cultural, economic, and social
upgrades need not be spearheaded by revolution and
violence. What we do need to do is orient our
connections, critiques, cultural production, and
collective action toward a state of democratic
critical mass.
Insightful, artistic or illuminating as our discourse
may otherwise be, without advancing the awareness and
insurgence to take-over the media, our discourse will
continue to be pre-empted.
Synesthesia mixes the senses.
The Networker, A New Perception
In societies where information and media are as
inaccessible and undemocratic as the governments that
run them, uninhibited public communication,
expression, and cultural production are acts of
freedom and defiance. Rooted in the drive to connect
and exchange with others, Networkers' openly engage in
international mail art, travel, copy-art, computer
bulletin boards, fax art, cassette exchange, cultural
disruptions, media hacking, pirate broadcasting,
festivals, sex, and all forms of improvisational
communication and direct action.
"Despite bountiful resouces, corporate profits and
state security continued to prevail over public needs
until..."
Immediast Underground
c/o Noospapers
PO Box 2726
Westfield, NJ
07091
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