just received this email - those in the london area partial to the odd
drunken pseudo-situationist stagger (sorry i mean 'derive') through the
metropolis may be interested in this strange little piece of
performative cartography gone bad. Seb Coe be warned.
ant
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SAVAGE MESSIAH NEW YEAR'S EVE DRIFT....a psychogeographic trawl through
London's repressed desires...............................
MAPPING AND SURVEILLANCE ON THE STREETS AND UNDERGROUND
NETWORK......................
.................'key themes FOR CONSIDERATION........' may
include.......MASS TRESPASS, SPONTANEOUS OUTBREAKS OF MOB VIOLENCE,
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, ARSON ATTACKS, KEBABYLON MAYHEM,
GATECRASHING.................
......BRING
booze
chalk
spraypaint
pens
cameras
notebooks
DAT machines
soundsystems
.....all events, dialogue, mayhem will be chanelled back into a special
issue of Savage Messiah
The drift will be monitored via mobile phone tracking technology and map
grid references will be podcast.
ASSEMBLE @ THE FOUNDRY, GREAT EASTERN STREET/OLD ST 9PM for schizoid
cartography ( erratic map manufacturing on beer mats), plotting and
fuelling up.
DEPART AFTER MIDNIGHT
DESTINATION UNKNOWN.
Forget paying a tenner to get into your local or staying in one boring
party, SAVAGE MESSIAH URGES YOU TO TAKE TO THE STREETS!!!!!!!. Fuck
organised, state sanctioned entertainment.
LORD COE, YOUR PROJECT WILL FAIL.
DEATH TO THE GODS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS!!!!!!!
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Anthony Ince
Research Student
Department of Geography,
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End,
E1 4NS
www.iww.org.uk
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