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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:42:23 +1100
From: "dr.woooo" <dr.woooo-AT-nomasters.org>
Subject: [postanarchism] Candida TV Swarm Declaration +...reality fiction


Candida was born from the evil blood of the human race. Despite all lack of 
fortune, she emerged from a fertile background of techno organized disorder. 
She grew up in a community network of outlaws in the cradle of necrotic 
European culture, living on the razor's edge of society and brain stability. 

Screenal reality is a realm, a layer of reality, that pretends to be the only 
possible world, materialized trough the seductive words of plastic babies. 
Candida claims that this is the right moment to start squatting screenal 
reality. She moves with her network, like a swarm.

The swarm say: Our strategy is to infiltrate pop culture as a necrotic tissue 
from the inside. In the beginning of the eighties, The Sanz Patiente 
Kollective, one of the first groups representative of industrial culture in 
Europe claimed their POSTINDUSTRIAL STRATEGY or THE CATHEDRAL OF DEATH: 

The Strategy is not dialectic: 
liberation against control 
unconscious against conscious 
deviant against normal sex against chastity 
The Strategy is catastrophic: 
carry the situation to its own limits 
The strategy is symbolic: 
use against the system its own intolerable signs 
The strategy is anonymous: 
we don't want to be categorized as another deviant star 
WE ARE THE NORM 
WE ARE THE TWILIGHT 

"Surveillance cameras are all around us, Surveillance cameras are all around 
us, Surveillance cameras are all around us," Magazzini Criminali (the Criminal 
Stores, a theatre company from Bologna) hysterically sang the in the eighties 
in their theatrical piece "Crollo Nervoso" (Neurotic Breakdown). Surveillance 
cameras are all around us, but instead of howling hysterically, we decide to 
hold the cameras in our hand Candida says: 


Television is a weapon. 
Screenal reality must be squatted. 

One year ago in Rome, we began the experiment of "Candida--the first electric 
household TV." We had the weapon in our hand, BEWARE! almost all our games are 
played with live ammunition … you may shoot ammunition into the emptiness. If 
there exists a big brother, Candida is The Little Sister, the first electric 
household TV. 

Let me explain the meaning of this slogan:
Candida in Italian means Candid as in Voltaire's Candide, for whom this is the 
best of all possible worlds. Isn't this what tv-pop-culture is trying to tell 
us while our bodies are daily dispossessed? 
Candida is Candid as in immediate; she has an immediate relationship with the 
media. It happens in the moment of the experience; a transformation from the 
television for everybody to the television created by everybody. 
Candida is the first electric household TV because her aim is to overcome the 
differences between the consumer and the producer: television can be done by 
everyone, you just have to use the television as a monitor, the camera as an 
eye, the video recorder as an editing tool. 


"MAKE YOUR OWN TELEVISION"--to doubt prefabricated authorities and to promote 
the decentralization of information. Screenal reality has to be squatted, 
Candida wants to be broadcast on the official television channels because the 
television channels are still the mainstream of the collective subconscious. 
Candida has got net streaming, but she is not satisfied with this because the 
actual standards for net streaming are proprietary, as is the Real Network. 
What we need is free software for light net streaming. 

We are invading the pulpit from which everyone is preaching to pour waves of 
vitriol in everyone's houses, we know that nothing is true and that everything 
is possible-the swarm are bastard nieces of uncle Dostoyevski and uncle Bill 
Burroughs. In the merry-go-round of media, as Guy Debord once said, what 
pretends to be true is false and what is false can only appear as true. 
 
Let's play the game.
Book industry, telematics, radio, television: Candida is a nomadic swarm that 
advance as grasshoppers of sense.
no name will be changed to protect the innocent. everyone is fucking guilty. 

http://subsol.c3.hu

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