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(according to NESTA and The Observer)
Hear Hear!
(with congrats all the same, as we know thgat publicity/PR = funding ...)
Greetz from Athens (last hours) p+1D! (3 in Am* ...)
> Hei James!
>
>> The 50 winners have been announced
>
> FWIW, it may not be a bad thing to strategically keep in mind Hakim Bey's
> Permanent Autonomous Zone admonition:
>
> "THE QUESTION OF PUBLICITY
>
> Recent events in the US and Europe have shown that
> self-organized/autonomous
> groups strike fear into the heart of the State. MOVE in Philadelphia, the
> Koreshites of Waco, Deadheads, Rainbow Tribes, computer-hackers,
> squatters,
> etc., have been targeted for varying intensity-levels of extermination.
> And yet
> other autonomous groups go unnoticed, or at least unpersecuted. What makes
> the
> difference? One factor may be the malign effect of publicity or mediation.
> The
> Media experience a vampiric thirst for the shadow-Passion play of
> "Terrorism",
> Babylon's public ritual of expiation, scapegoating, and blood-sacrifice.
> Once
> any autonomous group allows this particular "gaze" to fall upon it, the
> shit
> hits the fan:-the Media will try to arrange a mini-armageddon to satisfy
> its
> junk-sickness for spectacle and death.
>
> Now, the PAZ makes a fine sitting target for such a Media smart-bomb.
> Beseiged
> inside its "con-pound", the self-organized group can only succumb to some
> sort
> of cheap pre-determined martyrdom. Presumably this role appeals only to
> neurotic
> masochists??? In any case, most groups will want to live out their natural
> span
> or trajectory in peace and quiet. A good tactic here might be to avoid
> publicity
> from the Mass Media as if it were the plague. A bit of natural paranoia
> comes in
> handy, so long as it doesn't become an end in itself. One must be cunning
> in
> order to get away with being bold. A touch of camouflage, a flair for
> invisibility, a sense of tact as a tactic...might be as useful to a PAZ as
> a
> TAZ. Humble suggestions:-Use only "intimate media" (zines, phonetrees,
> BBSs,
> free radio and mini-FM, public-access cable, etc.)-avoid blustering-macho-
> confrontationist attitude-you don't need five seconds on the Evening News
> ("Police Raid Cultists") to validate your existence. Our slogan might
> be:-"Get a
> life, not a life-style."
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