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TitlePolitic contained herein highly suspect ...
Author
PublisherFree City Collective
PlaceSan Francisco
Year
Date 111/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
Publication
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Page(s)
MediumBroadside
DimensionLegal
Extent
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CatalogFC-2-008
CollectionSOLA-o; SS-o (MH)
Cit. No.
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FC-2-008
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Notes
The design relies on superimposition, with prison-like vertical bars laid over photographic imagery and a small classical figure, reinforcing the sheet’s tension between confinement and revelation.
Abstract
This sheet is one of Free City’s more explicit meditations on the problem of “news” in a revolutionary culture that is not, at least yet, founded on armed struggle. The text rejects the authority of mass media and official politics in favor of “instant real,” social theater, sexual candor, self-liberation, and the making of one’s own life as the valid ground of revolutionary speech. The layered imagery—part prison bars, part planetary or ritual apparition—suggests both confinement and breakthrough, as though the task were to invent forms of consciousness and communication adequate to liberation on one’s own terms.
Full Text
Politic contained herein highly suspect to
     all authority prisoners.
Social possibilities of real theatre ritual
     and instant real.
What does real mean in the context of
     mass media?
Texts dealing with national problems in the
     midst of armed revolution are often the
     only valid news.
What texts are valid in an essentially non-
     shooting revolution?
Paying for sex is one good place to begin
     exploring.
What is an electric janitor?

[Graphic image]

The troops returning with Tibetan chancres--
     Cambodian bowel conditions--jungle emmis-
     sions of all kinds. Troops deserting.
News is riots in Detroit hooker hotels.
News means reflexive self-liberation in terms
     of being on one's own terms
Liberation as evolutionary handling of your
     own evolution.
In terms of never being afraid again.
In terms of creating your own lifestyle.
In terms of celebrating the planet.
In terms of man to man confrontation because
     we love to fuck and fight and eat and
     run and speak for ourselves.

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