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Posted by Reader on January 03, 2001 at 07:25:21 AM EST:

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IDEOLOGICAL TERRORISM


THE LUMPEN ILLUMINATES


 


KEEP SENSE COMMON 


NUMBER FIVE IS ALIVE


1. Menwith hill listens nationally to all phone calls throughout europe (e-mails and faxes too!) 2. The townhall bunkers watch locally and special branch 'spins'the mail 3. Cyber sex initiatives are being expanded to take over all tactile functions you perform  and 4. Your spending habits (your tastes) are logged by credit and market research companies, creating virtual identities on floppy discs (pending personality characterization). With the advent of both D. N. A. profiling and i. d. cards being used as tracking devices (in lieu of digital tagging) and everyday genetic capabilities (foods, animals and children) being available in marketable , identikit form surely the time has come  for some sort of action, intervention and ultimately resistance. As the technological prosthetics programme for humans (T. P. P. H. ) goes unchecked the continuing state expansionism and colonization of all levels of existence has trangressesd the classical models of imperialism which traditionally have sought to conquer and occupy territories establishing 'physical' links between lands (via economic and civil coercion alongside brute force). The motivation however remains the same even if the spatial dimension differs -psycho/social cyberspace-. The domination of (a)resources  (imagination) and (b) the exploitation of markets (perceptual) is once again the true driving force of the 'state cyborg replacement project'(S. C. R. P. ) which will eventually own, manufacture, distribute and exchange all experiential phenomena available to you the consumer. We should not be diverted by such distractions as to whether life is real or faked but instead concern ourselves daily with how and who it is controlled by. Count the sense functions appropriated thus far ! for they are there as prophesied ! on horseback ! as the epoch-alypse beckons what hope ? what joy ? As the millennium dawns and dictatorial enslavement increases its dominion to what and where can we turn ?... . But wait !... . there is one weakness !... . . one omission !... . . "ACHILLES" !?!?... . . "HEAL" !


5. OLFACTORY nihilism is proposed as the radical usurpation of totalitarian power. But time is short, the basic pre-requisites and behavioral principles are already in place and are currently being advanced by government laboratories and corporate scientists who are beginning to harness the electrical impulses of the neuro-sinal synapse. The secret states psychologists have produced reports charting the long and short term effects of a range of subliminal manipulation techniques to compliment other 'sensory weapons' (sonic audio light and white noise) and they intend to develop '5th sense'hallucinatory capabilities, via complex cognitive associations that impact on populations and perceived enemies of the state. Response times and reflex patterns are already circulating world wide on the internet, and when one considers the groundwork established as part of cold war detente, the prospect for the total supersession of humanity is closer than one may initially imagine. After WW11 and the consumer spending booms that followed, 'smell for smell'replacement became an intimate pre-occupation for 'individuals'within western civilizations (pubescent rites of passage rituals proving the most expedient for thought implantations and social conditioning). The self image stereotyping and standardization of acceptable levels of '5th sense' output have today been integrated wholesale to all but a few non-conformists. Since the collapse of the soviet economic block the marketing of new age therapies and ecological capitalism have vaunted '5th sense' superiority as a convenient and fashionable distraction from both T. P. P. H. and S. C. R. P. initiatives (body shops and various 'aroma' therapies) what with cultural forays into scratch and sniff for children alongside chic designer fragrances and periodicals for bigger children, the time is  more than ripe for  an upper respiratory refusal and resistance, in fact it has never been more necessary if we are  to counter the bureaucracies authoritarian concentration of power. Direct action in an odorless milieu diffuses, short circuits and disorientates (as with flotation experience) the basic assumptions required to convince the  virtual individual to willingly participate in their own alienation, oppression and confinement -it will also buy time for the formation of revolutionary praxis synthesised from a sixth sense born of confusion- In the absence of categorical distinctions within the '5th element' (yes ! popular culture once more entering the fray) all knowledge and anti-knowledge is at once reconciled and the boundaries of compromise and consolation are illiminated. The practice of transforming abstraction into action through a continual process of disengagement, whilst subjectively interacting with a combination of principles and beliefs, needs to be taken back into the revolutionary movement. For too long now, cynicism and ironic fatalism -couched in kitsch- has replaced a concrete analysis of tertiary marginalisation. We must learn to unite in opposition to one another if we are to use 'paradox and possibility' to their maximum effect. Beliefs whilst having the power to structure reality, do discriminate, and as such should be appropriated and discarded without con-science. At the end of the day it simply an issue of power, discourse, perception and will.


Bulletin of the lumpen illuminates "imitating the forms of alienation instead of colluding with the spectacle of their supersession". 1. 99.



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RHINOPLASTY NOW


THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERA IN COMMUNIST TREPANATION


Subjugates ! It is with great pleasure and pride that we are able to bring you this historic report from our 31st conference (fortress centre 'Oranianbaum' 4. 99) which as many of you will already know is being heralded as the most significant in our entire ten year organizational existence. The gravity of its implications are already becoming clear and those who attended are fondly refering to it as the virtual 'year zero' for lumpen illuminates across the globe. Delegates from the diverse and vast range of the medical arts participated in the formulation of a radical new programme after a thorough and exhaustive examination of the 'transitional programmes' strengths and weaknesses (bulletin of the L. I. 1. 99 ) and whilst its previous emphases were seen as relevant to the historical circumstances of that time, it was agreed that the productive and assimilative capabilities of a voracious state capitalism had necessitated a 'development ' of 'Huges' initial tracts -written over thirty years ago- as even he could not have forseen the speed of technological development in the chemo-sensory industry that has wreaked such havoc with its 'smell to sell'experiments currently being tested on the populace without any consultation or consideration of the potential long term effects (possible psychosis and hallucinatory delusions ). Our attendant contextualised 'addition' to analysis will obviously require clarification in theory and practice over the coming months and years, but we are clear to point out to the few at conference -whose influence is obviously disproportionate to their size- that the new 'continuations' and 'compliments' to ideological primacy are neither substitutes nor counterpositions and as such do not represent the revisionism they proclaim. The 'techniques' and essential 'modernizations' are in fact crucial to the survival and development of our platform if we are ever to become a mass movement with popular appeal and popular participation. Alongside this, the effective collapse of any meaningful opposition since the degeneration and demise of the 'chelsea' deviationists redundant appeals to parliamentary democracy -which had long established its attacks on the welfare state (i. e. ) making any notion of state sponsored surgery 'dead in the water '- in turn forced the issue of extra-parliamentary / direct action to  to become the most significant challenge 'one world' profiteering has recently had to face. So can we please reassure our doubters once and for all , that the rudiments of explorative science form the basis of ALL our conclusions and we remain opposed to any and all forms of collaboration with and capitulation to limited and reactionary ventures replete with their undermining spectacle of reform. We feel confident that this reaffirmation alongside the irreversible 'qualitive' shift proposed below, amply demonstrates and enshrines the fundamental principles of  body modification which has guided us faithfully through the years. We hope the following excerpts from congress will demonstrate this and look forward to receiving feedback from the membership in due course . . ... (1) Delegates believed that whilst guerilla actions in localities served to popularize the 'transitional programme' amongst the 'yoof' they had also been of limited value generally as they tended to reinforce only short term solutions to the establishments sensory supersession and (2) whilst they demonstrated pro-active resistance and sabotage such conspicuously tokenistic and temporary reclamations (piercing, pegging and packing alongside inversion headstands and floral hit squads) simply served to emphasise the powerlessness people feel in relation to the continual barrage of nasal manipulation we all suffer on a daily basis. (3) Such impermanent gimmicks provide only a glimpse of the ecstatic states that await us and only a total negation into an odorless reality will suffice, so if it is not to much of an insult to our dearly departed comrades ... "the transient effects experienced thus far by our organisation have merely been a small taste and glimpse of  the sounds our minds are  potentially able to touch upon, within our final doctrine". (4) The executive would also take pains to point out that with reduced opportunities and prospects c/o the crisis in the N. H. S. even the munchausian /intrasal sinus option is no longer available. However the foundations laid in the exemplary spontaneous uprising in S. W. London on the 12. 3. 99. has shown the way forward and merits further debate and discussion on how to actuate new memes into branch life. (5a)Apart from distributing the usual historical data (late stone age through Ensisheim / Hippocrates / Pergamon / 'Razi et al including the ever popular Davinci breaches of church bans and more recent Kisi activities) the S. W. adepts detailed (5b) basic cell stimulation and free nerve/nasal patch links to the brain. (5c)They were also unequivocal in their condemnation of the unprincipled, politically motivated misrepresentation and appropriation of civilizations pre-conscious history, along with its current day paternalism witnessed in the conceited and sanctimonious celebrities on their "we've done our bit , now its up to you" unofficial, a-historical 'Red nose day' . These 'capitalist -relief 'centrists neither know nor care for the origins of their dismembered bulbous sign -though such signifiers are strangely in keeping with their predecessors farcical mediation and role play as 'shaman-conductors' providing spiritual justification (by all manner of clowning ) for the newly instituted social relations (actualising subordination, hierarchy and control into subconscious beliefs and values) leading to such bizarre notions of symbolic experience and culture which oppress us to this day (the ancient power play in cave-dear daubings have a direct parallel in the Rudolph myth also) - All this made (5d) the counter demonstration that occurred on the 12th of the 3rd  even more fitting and its inspiration informs the central plank of the memberships new responsibilities. The rapture recorded photographically and also the S. W. comrades subsequent admission papers to hospital are now formal records within our archive, showing a dedicated and devout number as they proceeded to 'self-deviate'their own septums and thus achieve the up until now dreamscape desire of 'OLFACTORY NIHILISM' (previously only enjoyed by a select few who had induced the final 'apo-polyps' and of course by a certain t. v. chef , who can neither smell nor taste the delicacies he enthusiastically swoons over ) ...  Now we will no longer have to wait till we are 60 years old !. . Nor fantasize about head injuries ! for it is now and only now that we can soar in unmediated experience marching forward, backward and disorientated without the 100 fag a day dampening of our most revered of senses !For we want to remember a world of primary sensation and recall the fragrant ether above the mind-body precipice ! We want to go forth to short circuit the conditioned responses of our brains !With eyes blackened ! and splints on our brows !  with perceptions heightened ! and egoism suppressed !, whether carapaced or not our imaginations will live and the neglected 10th's revive ! still a pro-hole polemic ! we implore you to SMASH YOUR BRIDGES AND BURN ! Immaculate brothers and sisters of the 'brain-blood volume' orthodoxy, come look ! hear ! see ! touch ! and smell ! once again ! a life beyond your 'bio- medical highs'! come join us and join us now ! before its to late ! lose your sense of smell ! BEFORE IT IS TAKEN ! for DEVIATION IS THE ONLY CURE !

Bulletin of the lumpen illuminates , "unconcerned with the past and dissolving the present into being  /non-being there is only a future in negation". 4. 99



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POPULAR NECROMANCY


END THE 24 HOUR FAMINE


G8 : After a fabulous and farcical 'Debt Wish'concert in mid '  99 amply demonstrated the reactionary role of parliamentary democracy in containing opposition and absorbing dissent via its co-opted stoolies in the sychophantic entertainment industry (pleading their reformist collaboration and rallying to the governments call) we the lumpen illuminates are now launching our appeal to all officially endorsed sad and selfless altruists, in the hope that they will re-evaluate and reconsider the harm they do during their regular 'by proxy'saviour routine. We implore them - and you too -to join us in our compassionate crusade to abolish the establishments jaded and bloody ball of manipulated false consciousness commonly known as 'red nose day'. The measly concession heralded at G8 - a similar % to an agents commission - was decided long before Blairs P. R. department and his celebrity surfers had any notion of drawing us into opportunistic and 'worthy' posturing at 'debt wish' (though its timing was fortuitous for one performers career re-launch weeks later, replete with his mock grimace and 'sincere'stare to camera as he and his rabble became ' serious ' for us once again)  : CHARITIES WATCHDOG: The lumpen illuminates have been examining 'spectacular' relief projects that claim to prevent 'senseless' deaths because the misinformation and obvious bias they detail is in clear contradiction to our thesis of sensory supersession ( L. I. 1 & 2 ). We are clear to point out that all underlying dynamics and practical imperatives remain unresolved and that people are still dying everyday (in fact death rates are increasing )and as long as 'survival' is not an option, it remains our task to expose glimpses and sparks of life wherever they can be located in a people targeted endlessly by the mechanisms of control. To do this we urgently need  your help focussing on the following  areas of  priority. (1)  INJECTION /VACCINATION PROGRAMMES : Obviously the need to vaccinate against distortion and mythrepresentation by existing political structures and vested interests that promote psychic dependence along with physical exploitation - the direct causes of survival sickness - must be tackled head on . It is vital we prevent the flagrant projection of desires for resurrection onto purposely underdeveloped peoples, as this lack of self awareness -shackled and nurtured by guilt -is a significant obstacle to self actualisation and as long as  consumers continue to sublimate in defeatist rationalizations, pouring their repressed feelings into secondary and tertiary realms  -allowing all manner of placebo spirit guides to lead us through alienated thoughts and frustrations -we will always remain prone to hostile infections, ideologies and fetishes from parasitical substitutes and virulent anti-bodies already present in the system. This relinquishing of responsibility and its endless embrace of knee jerk quick fixes, allows the shameless entrepreneurs to introduce their feverish memes  into our  brains which then gradually but devisivley begin to overwhelm and exploit our weaknesses, paving the way for a complete negation of the subject-object relationship. We desperately need to start tackling infections at source, fighting the causes instead of the symptoms of death so we are better equipped when destroying and creating in the future. PLEASE , PLEASE , PLEASE help us stop the comedians and politicians before its too late. (2) ESSENTIAL OPERATIONS AND TRANSPLANTS : These are desperately needed to restore naval cavities devastated by one world, cross class (plastic and spherical ) signifiers, which have obscured the left-right dialectical relationship, without which no synthesis of capitalisms inherent contradictions can be a achieved. We urgently need your help to remove the burden of entertainment, so that we are no longer obliged to clown with the imposed and manufactured coping mechanisms handed down to us. (3) EDUCATION : The cognitive territories and impressionable minds invaded by the mass hallucination of charity are effectively having their development deliberately halted by the leisure industries market imperatives and the politics of celebrity. The so called aid projects have 'aided' many careers and whilst we can understand the reluctance of several charity millionaires to leave the paternalism and conceit of the mid 80's behind, their mint making mentality should not automatically turn us all into capitals version of Orwells proles (dependent on  a small  and dedicated group of professional 'teachers' hoping to preserve their privileges). The discredited and not so 'New' realism and the apologetic platitudes it fostered and promoted should no longer be included in stratifying national curriculums, and any poor spelling and understanding of dispersed and divisive social-isms amongst the new and up and coming cronies, should be vigorously challenged and illiminated. (4) FOOD STAPLES: As content is inherent within form , the nutritional value of repeatedly spoonfeeding 'syrup'to desperate people is worse than worthless and is not conducive when attempting to involve and empower isolated individuals in their own lives. The pathos, condescension and puerile dumbing down, when combined with disengenious back slapping and flattery is too watery a mixture to feed anyone wishing to sustain an ounce of dignity and self respect. The totality of such a 'past its sell by date' approach degrades our lives, lowers expectations and feeds - only - cynicism. Dont be duped, demand the impossible, remember ingested faeces kills and  "any food that does not contain the stimulus to activity is useless". (5)BLOOD SUPPLIES : These are basically none existent having been all but depleted by the vampires of rebellion and protest, who greedily gorge upon our thwarted attempts at reconciliation, so STOP DONATING YOUR LIFES BLOOD ! without it they will surely 'wither away 'and make room for all and any one of us to administer our collective needs on a daily basis. DISINVEST NOW  : The cultural weaponry used by the state obviously serves the dominant social relations, but the frequent problem surrounding the diversion of  our 'funds'into the hands of ruthless gunmen and mercenaries serving the bureaucratic elite must be counteracted, we must ensure that statist reactionary's and naive wannabee's are no longer the main beneficiaries when focussing our will against injustice. CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS in developed countries promote the distraction of charity as exploitations 'alibi' -to avert attention focussing upon the need for consistent and coherent applications of internationalism -by confusing their populations with a florid litany of cloaked events encouraging us all 'to do our bit' but in fact they are deliberately hijacking the everyday attempts by ordinary people to make sense of their one dimensional existenz. Fooled by the vain and smug self deceit afforded to them, whilst reinforcing partisan philosophies of value and exchange (the work ethic in sponsored events and pay to view on stage and t. v. ) leaves only the numbness of self delusion, non achievement and a 'by -product' of INCIDENTAL amounts of currency. However THE NEW THREAT : faced by the famine business and its franchise in the political and entertainment 'industries' is somewhat severe. The extra-parliamentary and direct action movements with their post political power strategies and autonomous federative structures, when coupled with the crisis of parliamentary democracy (less than 50% voted in local elections and only one in four of us in euro-elections )has officially become the existing systems 'nemesis'in waiting (post cold war and I. R. A.  losses for the intelligence services )as mainstream politics struggles to rationalize its viability and relevance -clearly becoming increasingly remote and potentially obsolete - the ideological defences of a dying peoples political form are desperate to undermine and usurp events like the 'stop the city' intervention as this was the only real opposition to the crippling debt indightment capitalism holds over its w. c. 's in underdeveloped countries. The J18 configuration with its broad and popular front against profiteering, preceded the hapless and hopeless 'debt wish' PROPAGANDA  by months in planning and this is what was really meant when we were told 'debt wish' was a "hastily arranged , last minute affair" (i. e. )they saw the window of opportunity for their eternal positive facade and we clearly were not meant to see the cynical handling when diverting attention into the parliamentary cul -de - sac and away from the decisive and assertive support the carnival would have received . It is power itself that must be challenged and broken, the enemy is 'within' and must be cast out so that we may begin to live in an unmediated and post spectacular world, where the full range of foods are made directly and readily available to all, irrespective of creed , colour, income or status and so that no-one ever need go hungry again. The 2nd counter demonstration is planned to occur on exactly the same date as any pseudo events. Please bring your punctured inner tubes to all venues and sites across the country, though be sure to leave all repairs to the B-list celeb's and do gooders as they parade their virtual humility for all to see... . DON'T LET THEM RELIEVE THEMSELVES FROM A HEIGHT ... !NO TO COMICS !... . . NO TO RELIEF ! ... . NO PASSARAN !

Bulletin 3 of the L. I. ' 7. 99. "For a unification of discourse and expression"



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MASLOW'S PROLE


nEver vigilant or even concerned to keep abreast of the latest developments at the white -and right- heat of the technological revolution (though constantly amused by the chaotic consistency from its semi-permeable boundary) we disembarked from our non-nordic spears and spied a curious 'gift' that dripped seductively from the listings section of a recently received 'fringe culture'catalogue. In our eagerness to chart the focussing and subsequent correlatives surrounding the presence of this  - by now - oscillating oracle we quickly reached down and purchased the newly formatted and updated games disc called 'Celebrity Snuff ' (T. M) . Upon  its receipt and perusal we were initially struck by the extraordinarily excessive  amount of accompanying background blurb and unnecessary pre-run sequences , which despite being both turgid and convoluted are also rather cleverly designed to work on a number of levels, depending on the age and mindset brought to the console. On one hand it is a straightforward shoot 'em up - peopled by real life extra's in a sort of true crime mag posing, end of pier historical photo style -that is badly overacted and cheaply video edited, yet on another it taps into that  ' messianic crusade with lives being lost at this very moment ' kind of vibe, aimed at the bereft and schizo-politicised inadequate. Its instructions are cloaked in the usual allegoric banality and inevitable air of separation we've come to expect from such formulaic promotions , that said the first character we come across is a tad different from the usual kind of sycophant we encounter as this time our 'on screen host and narrator' is a trans-sexual named 'Martha Davis' who begins by taking us through the scene setting abstract with an incongruous blend of alacrity and nonchalance and ends by her slicing shank from an effigy of Will Self and mercilessly liquidating Alan Titchmarsh. However we found her references to an 'axiomatic manifesto' rather intrigueging (initially anyway) and as such felt the game warranted further investigation as it was becoming more and more obvious that the makers of  Celebrity Snuff had gone to 'just a little bit too much trouble' for anyone who considers themselves a transgressive to either overlook or ignore the game . For example Davis pipes up "You comrades are about to engage in a bloody war waged against the enemies of reality... set not in the future... but now... in the present!" she goes on to shout that she is fully aware of how unscientific these terms are , but for us to please bear in mind that we've joined  "... A PRE-BAUDRILLARDIAN BAND OF PROLETARIAN NIHILISTS... within a ... FRONT. . organisation called the ... 'RETRIBUTIVE FORCE'... who have apparently devised and began to implement a radical new programme for the post modern epoch entitled ... 'REACH OF THE STARS'* ... this tract she explains "advances the novel idea that in order to overcome the 'totalizing effects of capital' within the dictatorship of appearances, we must first learn to stalk, murder, maim and film as many popular media icons meeting their deaths as is humanly possible". Having supposedly been nominated by  "cultural studies tutors impressed by our contemporary sensibilities and enlarged ears and fingers"  this recruit and enlistment phase ends by selecting from a staged dexterity and proficiency test which awards points according to how many radical poses and political soundbites we can effectively demonstrate at public and branch events supporting our cadre leader who is promoting her book 'reminiscences of a cuban revolutionary bore'. Davis begins to salivate  uncontrollably as she mutters "ya know ... to altruistic sociopaths . . offin' professional personalities is da new rock 'n' roll" she fades out tilting her head backwards and laughing to reveal an eight pointed star tattooed amongst the track marks on her neck. The scene promptly cuts to a smoke filled Groucho club where our first set of instructions have been left on the back of a packet of cigarettes, these welcome us to the ' semiotic insurrection ' and introduce us to our glorious leader a  'R. Palme-Mutt' who explains "that in order to subvert the impact of an overiding sense of marginalisation in ourselves and our constituency we must first destroy the plethora of self referential signs that are currently used vicariously to maintain a semblance of personal equilibrium and social cohesion " at this point Martha re-enters crushing the fag packet and feeding herself unprocessed coca leaf as a line of khaki clad guerillas run past behind her , at which point she announces and gestures  as Alan Wicca "this army... has overcome the debilitating illness that renders. . (get this). . tertiary recipetents of secondary information liable to develop primary delusions !" Panning back , her outstretched arm starts to beckon the camera past to enter ... 'Pinnochio's Playground' ... . where we are encouraged to blindly "challenge, question, feel or fuck our way through all we encounter in order to avoid becoming the metaphorical puppet, donkey or ass in the spectacle's masterplan . As we progress through "this maya filled themepark" - purposely being allowed to view the stage set parephenalia and props that emphasise the "constructed points of accommodation and diversion involved"- we are randomly rewarded with binoculars, electoral rolls and phone bills for little more than answering the pressure of speech inquiries spat by the cloned caricatures approaching us from the variety of  "recuperative rides"  therein - including a youth wing appendage to the tourist industry called ... 'Manu-piss-on' ... where you are obliged to get . . 'Hi- di-High' . . before you're allowed to -as it were- "move on " ! this is followed by a succession of suburban middle class crack houses making XXX pornography, offered to you the consumer ... 'with nothing to pay for a month' ! ... we finish by  visiting places of religious and political worship in Georgetown, Downing street and Waco - The standardized answer we have to repeat and confirm is "I want the meme not the scene" and if we do , we are allowed to progress to the 'meta of sexuality' section , only to be interrogated further as to whether we find the portrayal of womanhood by 'drag kings' intrinsically mysoginist in nature. The next extract of the manifesto surfaces - literally - from the throne of a trouser ankled Aleister Crowley look a like, as he hands us a soiled piece of paper, his head on his shoulder whining coyly "in Plymouth my mummy's brethren say I'm their lickle beast... . will thou maketh me yours ??? ... I'll lend you instant credibility with a  ' dark / neo-classical  / apocalyptic  / death ambience' that can be endlessly re-packaged year after year ... really I WILL... . I WILL... " as he is about to plead some more he is chinned by an irreverent masked wrestler called 'Kerry' who telepathically transmits - in thought bubbles - an assurance that "by busting caps in the automatons of infor-tainment we are directly serving the interests of the 'Pupkin Proletariat' and that it is not only a rational and understandable course of action but that our non-obsessional spontaneous acts  of beauty are in fact a desirable form of resistance, supremely beneficial for those of us looking to rewire our data banks and short circuit the mechanisms of control" he continues "iconoclastic narodnism contrary to -not so- popular authoritarian socialist belief is never the empty, emotional gesture of the misanthropic loner nor merely a short term panacea from the confused minds of the mentally ill, but rather a sincere and spiritual pursuit of the disenfranchised and noble seekers of a life without a living" he later adds that "equal opportunities stalking and its bloody end" must become a sociological imperative that wipes (i. e. Aleister's tissue ) layer upon layer of conditioning clean away , each heroically inspired kill supposedly transporting us 'from a particular instance... to a general principle' consequently igniting a "holy trinity of death, resurrection and union , bringing us closer to our goal of direct and unmediated access to genuine experience. " Several discretionary items are then added to our 'flaks and packs' -including wire cutters, bleach (?) and a hyperdermic syringe- before our entering a scene complete with rolling newsflash text at its base which displays the legend 'Pandora's box please lock the door behind you'... the inside is actually a cage allowing random snippets of information sporadically - and mostly unintentionally - to fall through. These occasional insights into the nightmares of a damaged claim are embarrassingly missed by the  'alternative target audience'seated respectfully outside watching 'the show'. Inside the makeshift prison is littered with Sadean texts, ermine furs and Whitehouse c. d. s but rather more amusingly pungent red fish that are alternately consumed first by the punters and then the 'supermen' walking round -and round and round -its perimeter shouting into the buckets that are fixed permanently to their heads. The task at hand is to discriminate between "genuine creative endeavour as opposed to the production and distribution of taboos that are conspicuously consumed in the marketplace of meaning" if you succeed a piece of golden faeces lights up and if you don't the rolling text flashes its reminder that 'support and opposition are just different sides of the same coin' (it repeats 'coin' over and over as if to remind us of their mutually beneficial and reciprocal inter-dependence ) . If we manage to pass these trials relatively unscathed we are permitted to "go deeper" where we find "a sort of laboratory cum workshop" full of electrodes , operating tables and "vices"  progressively leading to an editing suite . But before entering this penultimate stage we are met once more by Martha Davis - though now clad in a sheepskin coat - and a team tied  Palme-Mutt who - commentator to manager - treat us to some of the most god awful pastiches of crass left wing rationalizations ever to see the light of day. Firstly they tender -in tandem - that  "the need for a vanguard is precipitated due to the masses inability to synthesize non-televisual consciousness and further to this they will require a more sympathetic mediator to lead them walkey round the garden" (Davis actually mimes this to camera) secondly "as everyone is defined at the point of consumption and because we are not in a revolutionary situation at the moment we  must all wait until our - new jewel type - elected officers can shovel and pick from the skeleton of  Marx's oeuvre for the right and proper time to get a handful of 'social democratic' M. P's to start things for us. (Davis by now tapping her foot and looking at her watch impatiently) Mutt goes on to say  "it is naive to expect proles to abandon such reformist inclinations as they are not capable of switching off the television or even wiping their own arse with newspapers , let alone stop believing in them! and so it falls to us to orientate around their 'choices' gradually gaining their confidence and learning about the mentality of those willing to accept the crumbs that 'fool' from the table" . He tells us "we must work within the prevailing historical limitations in a policy of 'No-cialist' realism, accepting the complimentary role of centre left newspapers like the 'Guardian' and  'Mirror' despite the blatant paternalism and distortion apparent in their choice of names , and the peace meal thought framing in both"  (After all this gobble-de-gook and looting I suppose we should be grateful they steered clear of the arguments surrounding the monopolisations currently devastating a 'democratic' and purportedly 'free' press). Finally in response to Martha's question of where next for the club the wise one responds that "we must translate our  "f... ff... fear... feories" so that the average harbinger of the cathode consensus can understand them in terms relevant to themselves and their virtual lives" ... Davis interjects "and the form Raj tell us a little bit about the teams form" , at which point Mutt says ". . its  got to be back to basics hasn't it. . good strong defence in the parliament of perception... with the midfield supporting a developing and entertaining entrism... and the attack... well we've got to look for any gaps left in the industry and exploit them. . I'm thinking patronisation of morbid fascinations... pandering to the visceral dialects and psycho-somatic manifestations that the lumpen rump are powerless to resist... you see we owe it to the supporters... we've worked hard  and bided our time ... I reckon the only way up is down... to the dungeon . . where notions of well being and fulfillment are purposefully inverted as we begin to film ... CELEBRITY SNUFF" (his emphasis). Pastiche turns to piss-take as the games graphics go into overdrive coming forward at speed toward the screen with a number of detourned news items - for example what were Lockerbie, Iraq, Kosovo and Ocalan crudely become spliced redirections  of dubbed footage and photographs showing    -severed- heads of the B. B. C and 'Noose' international alongside suggestions that the N. U. J. and equity are responsible for bankrolling a recent spate of cowardly aesthetic attacks upon innocent civilians - minor figures are then fired at the player including images of . . 'dead Ken'. . Charles Satchi and radiohead before proceeding to layer scrawled blood slogans like. . 'better dead than red'. . and . . 'never have so many. . given so little . . and taken so much'. . across press photograph's of 'all the usual suspects' arriving at a film premiere. This last piece of sensationalism is linked to a serene, sanctity and stillness that quells the previous epileptic bombardment with lingering, poised and sainted snaps of Jill Dando and Princess Diana that are suddenly undermined by headlines like 'the tears will never stop' and 'it was the pun wot won it' as we cut to the coked up guerillas of the previous scene rolling and hollering with tears of laughter while their cadre leader reads extracts from 'turn illness into a weapon'and Saguinetti's 'on terrorism'.


All in all this general and overiding reliance upon an existing journalistic style and content -which is apparent from the moment we start to play the game - just obscures, replicates and compounds the underlying authority pose struck by the current owners of the means of expression, and veils the vested interests of the standby salvationists who fetishize the state hoping to inherit the whole debacle with summary lies about extending the length of our chains and creative promises about co-opting a symbolic and cultural placebo to the nations fevered brow. The romanticism associated with the numerous references and longing for a 'genuine, true, actual or real experience' is synominous with the faded and jaded sounding out we've come to expect from the sub-cultural right, who seem oblivious to the extreme reification and simulation that has rendered such fantasies obsolete, but these 'instinct' based 'natural orders' of the philosophical fascists -who apologetically hope to avoid detection by vainly suggesting that they "would be the first up against the wall" if the nationalists came to power-don't bare up to close scrutiny when one considers the inductive nature of their  'still believing' clutched to catch phrases and credo's. The morphing scenes that allow us to click mug shots onto doctored 'guinea pig' footage occur in the editing suite and directly parallel the police's attempts to drown  out physical confrontation and support for popular protest in mounting its panoptical putsch and successfully entering manipulated  and re-contextualised footage  into the collective unconscious. The constant referalls and name-dropping proof of sale , tendered in the games subjective reading of  Nietzsche (another right wing trait) exacerbates matters further when they overlook the implication that in establishing that 'god is dead' he is in principle detailing the demise of the real, and as such they are guilty of deliberately ignoring the pervasive strength and full potential of the virus. Personality cults aside the whole premise of Celebrity snuff  is akin to the investiture carried out by the number 12 shirt wearing followers of sport across the globe, who in responding to such purposely nurtured distractions are conned into staking personal, regional and national pride -along with their respective identities- on the fortunes of a football team . This reliance upon role models and traitors fosters a desire to escape ones class but never one to redress the inequities it suffers, and shows just how the makers of C. S. would have us join other 'fans' in other domains that aimlessly bounce off of who, when, and where the real is located as foretold by P. R. marketing machines and style 'programmers'. Needless to say the attacks advanced in Celebrity Snuff do nothing  to impact on the procession or principle of the real and the pre-occupation with the political patsies of the minority economic racket obviously leaves the need for a radical offensive on the mental order effectively unbreached, as if to suggest that the numerous instances of a disappearance no longer occurred ! (if anyone still subscribes to such folly they should examine the christ-mass viewing figures for an east end dope opera where of the 11. 1million viewers, a stunning 73 % of us actually got up to check if it was snowing outside when one actor mentioned it was... in a non live broadcast !!!) Several organisations within the anti-media-ocracy movement have previously detailed how the intelligence services routinely fund the making of  'snuff  films' so as to provide a convenient censorship debate that injects the idea that the more 'extreme' end of cultural production in the 'arts' - and consequently anyone that endorses freedom of expression - can become responsible for a range of social problems as opposed to the  more accurate analysis of  it being a pox ridden 'profession' that robs and disarms while triumphantly screaming "life we'll get others to do that for you" , we should point out that whilst we may share an inclination in our ideas about the counter productive role of 'art' and agree that those who live by the sword must not expect preferential treatment when dying by it , the illuminated rank and file does not endorse the retaliation as suggested in the game as we believe people must learn to bypass and outflank the coercive mediation we face, and whilst it is felt that this particular attempt to agitate against manipulation is politically incorrect  (don't you know it's currently politically correct 'to be' politically incorrect ? ) we also believe there are obvious lessons to be learnt, especially when one considers how cheap the technology to  make such 'objects of desire' have become. However another point of divergence we have is regarding the adolescent address snuff attempts to employ when communicating with the internally slaughtered child we all carry, as it perishes in the hearts and minds of both the directors and viewers lost in the fixated ambiguity of 'death' on film -including mondo editing and re-enactment techniques-which are designed to placate a craving for something -anything- that connects or alludes physically to a tangible, evident experience in a world of encroaching uncertainty and erosion. These dramatic replays and searches echo the  florid pubescent cravings we all tried to negotiate when trying to metabolise the harshness of exteriorised script after script, within a system that is designed to crush the spirit and determination of psycho-sensually orientated human beings. The subtext within snuff is supposed to stem the flow of anxiety and open the floodgates of apathy when creating de-sensitized objects that we can own -and by association master- to use within anti-septic interactions based on pseudo - empirical evidence. This genre's brand value  is associated with an acute alienation from oneself and equates with the apotheosis of an economic derive that has an insatiable appetite for dispossessed sensations, divorced from unfamiliar emotional currents that can readily be split off to become temporary titillation and abject relief within a  simulated refuge of terror. Celebrity Snuff whilst at times thought provoking , ultimately fails to distinguish itself from its contemporary's by refusing to detail the geography of interpersonal and social confrontations at their points of production and presentation. As to whether we actually bother to finish the last parts of the game - with its endscene , scanned canonization enabling us to join our peers who've "successfully stalked the lifestyles of the rich and famous" - it simply doesn't matter as the whole thing reeks of yet another aping of socialist -and capitalist- realism's 'heroes for zeroes' policies employed by the numerous retail intelligence departments that make and market cheap accessories for those of us who require a more proximate and insular relationship than the one we have with our t. v's, newspapers and 'battoned' down front doors.



(Bulletin 4 of the L. I. 'subverting the de-humanizing  process by allowing its cognitive manifestation'. 2. 00. )


PROJECTS


'POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE' is an ongoing, international trawling expedition focussing on the media's reporting and promotion of national stereotypes aimed at -and often utilised by -various sections of society, for political purposes (see Britains carefully cultivated enmity toward France and how useful it proved recently when it avoided the details of legitimate questioning concerning the B. S. E. crisis, whilst simultaneously rallying an intensely euro-skeptical populace to support european legislation ! )What we need are superficial, 'paper thin characterizations' and 'postcard images' based on the output of  your current country's various consensus forming machinery (especially the ignorant and crass) and for you to send these along with text or occasional words summarizing its portrayal of 'britishness'we in turn will do likewise for the country you stipulate. ALSO send your randomly (if you believe in that sort of thing ) selected and found photographs of unknown people , places. pets and other projections alongside the spontaneous words and phrases that you dis-associate and re-associate in response to the said image, compliment these attributes by adding some personalia (names. hair, gloves, jewelry etc. ) to create a VIRTUALLY RE-ANIMATED  existent/concretion that redesignates and challenges the nature and origins of a fixed identity (subjective and objective) allowing possible and partial aspects to develop independently of conscious control. This detournement -or development -of A. O. Spares sleight of mind techniques, can be enlivened further by placing these entities in boxes, facilitating intimate and private realms in which to commune with ones recesses, whilst also providing an erstwhile and loyal companion /functional resource as you attempt to negotiate the phenominological -ontology that manifests and masquerades all around and within. you can send either full or partial pro-creations (note: for shared processes send one aspect which in turn will be either immediately reciprocated or circulated amongst contacts ). For both projects follow the 'CONTACT' link for further details.

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FOR 'INFORMATION' PURPOSES ONLY


What follows is the rambling incoherent tract 'BY ANY MEMES NECESSARY' that was randomly disseminated as a consequence of the expulsion of a centrist faction within the L. I. whose 'platform' only began to ferment when the privileges enjoyed exclusively by their number were being reviewed in a party wide consultation document and after the failure of a motion from the floor (including a physical confrontation at a disciplinary appeals committe ) at our 31st congress. As a result  it was formally decided to  expel the unconstitutionally appointed 'Fedavi' section that had so patently shown their unwillingness to adapt to the  process of change initiated after years in the wilderness under 'old L. I .  Despite desperate and cheap attempts to gain publicity and a laughable attempt at refoundation the ( now ) re -named O. T. O. continue to lurch from left to right in an established tradition of opportunism -stink- bombing and gurning in aktions directed at perceived enemies of their self obsessed naivety and its knee jerk reductionism that together produce an undialectical, emotionally determined 'agenda'. The document  was obviously written -and meant to be read - after one   sacrament to many, but as it continues to be the focuss of their activities we felt it was important for us to  detail     - mainly for entertainment purposes - the 'organizations'  obvious ideological confusion and their members delusional  fanaticism ... So here it is  ! the only communique to date from the 'olfactory terra organisation'

FIGHTING TERROR WITH TERRA/BY ANY MEMES NECESSARY


After our suspension at the treacherous 31st conference, the Fedavi within our order heeded the call of  G. A. O. T. U. to cast off the yoke of bondage, aside our duly elected leadership and break centuries of tradition by severing all ties with the mounting stronghold at Oranianbaum. Henceforth the olfactory terra organisation rejects the folly and tran-science of revisionism (veiled as re-structuring and modernization ) as it reeks of betrayal and heresy. In so doing we re-assert our fervent belief in the historical necessity of symbolic culture, its manipulation and our subservience to its dictatorial emphases. Infidels beware the campaign we wage is wholly - irreligious and sacred. By 'invoking' the intractable smell that permeates ALL life in death, we are advocating -a- sensual engagement and summon the stench bound in grief suffered each day, that it may taint our every breath !!! ... . Come join us in casting off our clips as we soar ambiviantly, cultivating the authentic and screaming in the shadow of its loss.

(Pro -illuminist realism on behalf of lumpens and 'anti-bourgeois'constructivist form)    


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: MERCHANDISE:


In the strict interest of giving false hope to the desperate and needy we are offering consumers a deliberately limited range of  ' a ' career  brokering gimmick -in the increasingly popular specialism of the patenting and commercialization of concepts and ideas- via the auto destructive glyph entitled

'LIBERTY IS A COMMODITY'


We must point out that as Marxist-felonists the spectacle of Metzgers folly exists only to serve as a reminder of the redundancy of art as a separate and specialized activity with no place outside the domain of everyday life. Bearing this in mind we are proud to present a pathetic piece of 'G. M. ' free non-art reality in a tuppenny bar of soap, crudely inscribed with the above pomposity. This once in a lifetime expression of an overiding anxiety to preserve meaning before our imminent return to monotony, can be yours for the ridiculous price of $50 (cash only) or better still why not subvert the whole system of objects  by just sending the cash with no expectation of the 'goods'being sent to you (please advise).

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LINKS


*THE HYPER-REAL DEAL : Several tapes and a documentary  provide an all to  brief  introduction to the oceanographic alchemy of the high priest of his own existence  'Mr Stevie Ocean' who exists  exclusively for those of you who refuse to discriminate between the various modes of knowing - and who believe in the neuromantic possibilities beyond the numerical enslavement of a saturday night 6 number tax system - for he serves to remind anyone without an allusion regarding their ability to fight that we can still insist upon our right to wear a big hat , walk an existential walk and talk a derivative talk ... . . In a world full of ignorance, conditional acceptance and with a pre-determined , non negotiable route to a -mediated- sense of self worth, Stevie is a living testament to the sub-evolutionary pantheon that knows "life will find a way"  (whether the means - and transitory definitions -of value, purpose and meaning recognise it or not) ... . He is in short a liminal avatar of 'artistic' autonomy and the all knowing all seeing ' id ' of the ' show ' business. He can be contacted at by telephone : 01534-605032 or FAX: +441534-605032:


*FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TREPANATION : We would refer you to the Eli Kebillio documentary a hole in the head


*CONTACT: For Further information , projects , photocopy graphics and merchandise you can  e-mail us at. . .

    Lumpenilluminate@aol. com





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