Enter the Vandalists

Resorting to an automatism characteristic of their class, the gentry of Williamsburg summoned their militia
to dissolve the siege being laid to a conspicuously empty palace of banality, newly erected in the heart of their
spectacular playground. The vandalists had recognized the inhospitablility to life of this sarcophagus for the young
professional class, and did not shy from the conclusion that it lent itself only to defilement. The object of
their critique was not limited to the class for whose consumption the condominiums that cover Williamsburg are
produced, but included the extreme boredom that the proliferation of these kinds of spaces induce. The prevalence of
the condominium is a symptom of the spreading homotopia that is the Metropolis—the endless repetition of the same
forever.

The vandalists will not reconcile themselves to merely appropriating these habitats—designed for gradual atrophy,
optimized for the most comfortable postponement of death. Rather, they want to see them recycled in the urban
biosphere; turned into manure from which unforeseen species might emerge.

It will not only be the police, the rich, and the reactionary press that will slam the vandalists—activists 
will likely join in as well, decrying the occupation as not being social enough, not populist enough. Why did it have to 
be a party, with booze, hip hop music, and NO RULES? Why not an attempted squat? Why was the media not called?
 Why was the action not 'consensed' upon in some public group? No one will understand the vandalists because they are
not of either world; they seek neither professionalist capitalism nor professionalist activism. Perhaps if squatting a social
center were still sometimes tolerated this desperate mayhem would not have occured, just as if there were anything to be
gained from joining Organized Labor or Revolutionary Parties perhaps we would not see the global masses chaotically
rising against singular abstractions of all authority (Wall Street, Mubarak, the IMF, Money, etc).

Activists call protests, the vandalists instead call potlucks. Potlucks of destruction.

We can expect more Occu-parties and general bad citizenry from these vandalists leading up to an ultimate act of
descecration, an intelligibility strike, on May First.

-Geiseric Tendency

Comments

Boom. To the Future.

Boom. To the Future.

sure, whatever. also the

sure, whatever. also the building is/was actively under construction almost every day, you couldn't squat it. but sure, whatever.

Is the use of extraordinarily

Is the use of extraordinarily vague and over wrought language an attempt to prefigure the vanguard for the intelligibility strike?

more like illegibility strike

more like illegibility strike amirite?
actually i guess not as if they were going on illegibility strike it might mean they would start being legible.

God can we change the poll

God can we change the poll aready, jeezus.

-the troletariat

Learn to speak English! What

Learn to speak English! What the fuck is wrong with NYC? The biggest opportunity in 10 years and it seems like folks have got no game at all.

Why would you expect those in

Why would you expect those in the heart of global capitalism to have any game?

They need to call a dam convergence to actually take walk street.

williamsburg and its loft

williamsburg and its loft parties are so boring.
lets have a revolutionary loft party to prefigure something or other

Potlucks of destruction?

Potlucks of destruction?

http://tinyurl.com/78aqv9h

sorry, but I keep thinking

sorry, but I keep thinking this is about Martha and the Vandellas.

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