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 AnarchoTrip
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Registered: 03/26/07
Posts: 487
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 YIPPIES!
#8075190 - 02/26/08 10:49 PM (7 months, 5 days ago) |
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They're not the only example, yippies, but I believe they're the most common or appropriate example of aesthetic obnoxiousism. If anyone's familiar with Hakim Bey's T.A.Z., he has a part about "Poetic Terrorism," which is very similar to what I'm trying to talk about.
"WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizzare alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone & make them happy."
This is the first paragraph of "Poetic Terrorism" by Hakim Bey. It's, like the Yippies performed or Antonin Artaud's "Theatre as Cruelty" was about, being obnoxious, being loud being wild being crazy for absolutely no purpose. Choas, Dischordianism (All Hail Eris, right?) is aesthetically beautiful. Is it? I feel like there's some real passion involved with this ultra-avant garde, ultra-annoying art/music/theatre/sex that is objectively beautiful. Saying 'objectively beautiful' isn't really the right word (I'm opposed to the idea of objectivity in beauty) but it tastes right--if you know what I mean. It's like chaos has a purpose, a real good reason to enjoy electronic clicking at random intervals passed off as "noise rock." Is there? I'm curious as everyone's opinion about chaos as associated with aesthetics.
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YIPPIE!
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 EternalCowabunga
Registered: 04/04/05
Posts: 2,475
Loc: Toronto
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order is most beautiful reflected on chaos
avante garde is beautiful because it is a rebellion against formula, which becomes mundane.
yin and yang
i think this quote is relevant
Alfred North Whitehead:
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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My my my, and so many I's   
My self represents I
I wouldn't have this any other way
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NiamhNyx
I'm NOT a 'he'
 
Registered: 09/01/02
Posts: 3,110
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I the Yippies!
In 1970, several hundred Vancouver Yippies, anarchists, draft dodgers, and others invaded Blaine, Washington in protest of the American invasion of Cambodia, got into a scuffle with some neo-Nazis and just generally made a glorious scene.  Here is a link to a detailed story.
I love this kind of stuff.
If you're into Hakim Bey and the chaotic/egoistic collision of aesthetics and radical anti-politics, I recommend reading "Immediatism." I just finished it and was totally re-inspired.
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MushmanTheManic
AverageFrustrated Chump
Registered: 04/21/05
Posts: 4,307
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Find and read all the Dada Manifestos by Tristan Tzara, or kill me.
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http://www.citizens-united.com
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