Welcome to Poetic Terrorism: a new method of communication. A new vocabulary for resistance. We’re opening a new front in the war against soundbytes and corporate catchphrases, because it is impossible to think when your words are controlled by discourse that is manufactured by imperialist corporations and sold to us wholesale in our schools and TVs. Bullshit shoved down our throats by government spokespeople and paid advertising: WE (you) have something to say, SAY IT!

Poetic Terrorism is profoundly nonviolent. It is the resistance of our voices. We are controlled by a submersion tank of manufactured ideas--by the media repeating the talking points of the government.

An exquisite seduction carried out not only in the cause of mutual satisfaction but also as a conscious act in a deliberately beautiful life—may be the ultimate Poetic Terrorism

-- Temporary Autonomous Zones, Ontological Anarchy, and Poetic Terrorism

Poetic terrorism is about bringing the art of resistance into every facet of our lives. Live your life loudly. There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you’re the monarch of your own skin—your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.--Hakim Bey

Poetic Terrorism is a means to achieve ontological anarchy. Ontological anarchy is freedom from prepackaged states of being. Our ontological state is our state of being: the massive, unwieldy lie that is your sense of cohesive selfhood. Every day, you struggle to define yourself in some pattern of relations with the society around you. This occurs through the accumulation of material, exposure to cultural capital (which is today just a Hollywood commodity), and, most of all, confining yourself to the roles that you are TOLD you should fill. Ontological anarchy is freedom from all this bullshit. It recognizes that none of us are unified, cohesive beings, and allows us to be whoever we are from moment to moment without worrying. It allows us to be present in the present, instead of acting from a preconceived artificial state of being.

Until we can start nationwide dialogue, until we can truly unify, create a common consciousness of resistance, there will be nothing but despair in the left. Until we realize how widespread discontent is, we will never be able to create a common vision.

What will this Blog do?

Poetic Terrorism exists to begin building a new dialogue about politics, culture, economies, and the media.

However, Poetic Terrorism is also a place to bring dialogue into real action. Along with a daily update, this blog will provide a calendar of events, issues, and happenings for the politically and artistically active. To submit an event, email the date, time, location, and description to PoeticTerrorism@gmail.com

peace
Jed, Myles, Yesenia, John Paul

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