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's 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.
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
This blog is open to anyone's words and ideas. If you would like to post, email jed.bickman@gmail.com to let me know--I'll give you privileges and then you can post whatever you want.
The difference between language and number is that one has real existence, but is not truth in the Neitzchian sense; language is artificial and has no real existence. How can truths be carried by illusions and metaphors, and what is carried by number? How can we see the illusionary truths of language without using language? Language, therefore, the birthplace of ideology, becomes the most fundamental and inescapable ideology. This is why we can never live outside ideology. Numbers, however, are not ideologies in of themselves, but signify the ideology of mathematics that Pythagoras gave us. We now believe that truth lies in numbers, through science; the only way to escape ideology, we believe, is through objective science. This is flawed for two reasons: 1. Said proved that objectivism does not exist in science, and 2. science is in itself an ideology. It may, however, be an ideology that leads humanity away from the illusionary truths given by language, and thus the number could potentially replace language as the fundamental ideology from which all ideology is born. However, Father Infinity maintains that it all potentialities (including this one) are in existence. How does this change the perceived role of humanity in the universe? It shifts our role from conqueror (Orientalism) to quantifier. We shall traverse reality, assigning numbers to everything.
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" Saturday, May 14, 2005