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Public Smear Campaign by Hey-Look-It's Caleb!
December 13th, 2007 3:13 PMIntroduction
On November 29, 2007, I, along with the other members of the University of Aesthematics received a treacherous message from The Revolutionary, The full text of which can be found herein:
ARISE, YOU WRETCHED OF THE UNIVERSITY!
WE HAVE LIVED IN THE SHADOW of the University of Aesthematics for too long! It has grown too large, has spread it’s fingers too broadly through the community, and has lost the focus of its Trajectory of Desire in its conquest.
THE UMBRELLA OF THE AESTHEMATICS blankets the Task list, such that no Task is not Aesthematic. Too many players have been absorbed by the expanse of the University, while the bulk of the Aesthematic membership acts in the manner of other groups - we all yearn for something outside of the walls!
THE GLORY THAT ONCE WAS THE UNIVERSITY has settled into a swamp of homogeny that has overtaken our community - but the University is obsolete as an institution of artmaking: we no longer need the legitimization of the University in order to create art. The full spectrum of the Praxis will finally be experienced once the University has been demolished. In this, the Glasnost Era, our time of social change, we rise up against the University!
ABANDON YOUR POSTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF AESTHEMATICS AND JOIN US IN THE STREETS!
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The Revolution is imminent. You must revoke your membership to the University before it is too late! But how - you ask – can you leave the University in this Era of fixed groups? Behold, it is not our group affiliations that define the structure of SFØ – it is our actions: “The conscious domination of history by the people who make it — this is the entire revolutionary project. Modern history, like all past history, is the product of social praxis, the (unconscious) result of human activities” [On the Poverty of Student Life, Situationist International and the Students of Strasbourg, November 1966].
Each defecting Aesthematician should collaborate with a non-Aesthematician to complete one task from another group which you have previously been denied them. When this gesture is complete, we will add you to the ranks of the Revolution, and issue you a certificate officiating your abandonment of the University.
A WARNING: those of you who choose to rally behind your dear "Senator" Burn Unit within the thin walls of the University, beware the Player Killing Areas... there is no mercy beneath the Guillotine!
Un seul week-end non révolutionnaire est infiniment plus sanglant qu'un mois de révolution permanente.
L'émancipation de l'homme sera totale ou ne sera pas!
Sous les pavés, la plage!
He then notified me that he considered me his foe, then placed his vile logo in an area adjacent to my Player Photograph!.
These things together make him worthy of smearing!
Part 1: The Counter-Manifesto
As a rejection of his foul stain upon The University of Aesthematics, I sent out a special letter to all the recipients of his foul message. The text of this follows:
FIE FIE, FOR THE PLAUGE BROUGHT BY THE REVOLUTIONARY SHELL BE DESTROYED
YOU WHO DENY THE GLORY of the University of Aesthematics shall be the first upgainst the wall when the true Revolution arrives! The Revolutionary lies to you all! For the power of the University is uncorrupted, nay, it is uncorruptable!
THE REVOLUTIONARY FEARS the Trajectory of Desire! He comes not to create art, but instead to rip you from your home, damage your abilities for making art with meaning! He placates your sensibilities while ruining your ideas!
THIS IS THE GOLDEN AGE OF ASTHEMATICS, one that will be with us for the duration of the Glasnot Era, and far beyond. We, together, are creating a world ruled by art, art that is representative of this world! It is a cycle of growth, change, and creation! The Revolutionary wants to drag you, my fellow Aestematicians out into the Dark Ages of the Trajectory of Desire!
DEFEND THE UNIVERSITY AGAINST THE HERESY OF STAGNANCY THE REVOLUTIONARY BRINGS TO US!
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We must show them that the University stands strong in the face of such insults as this "revolution"! Go through the world, spread art! Produce meaning in that which seemingly has none with all your techniques of aesthematics! In the words of Leonard Bernstein: "Any great work of art ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air." This is the special power of the University of Aesthematics, the power that other groups have not an access to!
Each of you who stands strong in the University should complete a task in a way that is distinctly ours. Create, make, form, combine, do what you will to bring art (and through that art, meaning) to the world and to SFØ! Feel free to collaborate with members of other groups, for they are not the enemy! The enemy is The Revolutionary and his illegitimate army of those who have foregone the grand institution of the University of Aesthematics!
COME, O YOU REVOLTING HORDE: You shall rue the day you ever challenged the might of the University! Come, join us at the Player Killing Areas! We bring all back to you tenfold!
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will. -Winston Churchhill
Part 2: Incriminating Footage comes To Light
Shortly after Part 1 was complete, a person sent me some video footage of The Revolutionary. I shall not specify the person, as he or she wishes to remain anonymous due to fear of The Revolutionary's brutish lackeys. I released an immediate video report of this:
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Part 3: The Grassroots Campaign
As the power of viral people to people connections is often the strongest way to spread news, I posted a warning about the horrors The Revolutionary is bringing upon society into my facebook.

Part 4: Picture proof is found!
Picture proof of The Revolutionary's evil deeds is found!

Part 5: The Art of Haiku
Fie you evil being
The revolutionary
but I respect you.
Thank you.
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posted by Loki on December 22nd, 2007 4:59 AM
Dirty politics would be a lot of fun if more candidates made use of haiku.
Fight fire with fire! Fight effort with effort!