Fwd: the book

[anna balint]

From: Istvan Kantor 
To: anonymous 
Reply-To: amen at interlog.com
Organization: neoism?!

dear conspirators and immortal friends,
my version of The Book of NEOISM?!
(also know as the book of Amen!)
is now done, looking for any possibilities of publishing and
dissemination, here is a short intro:

(a) Monty Cantsin? AMEN!

THE BOOK OF NEOISM?!

ENDLESS NOTES FROM THE NEOIST?! PLUNDERGROUND

a (de)definition hypervaganza

6 volumes (about 500 pages) of impure nonsense that promises to be the
most futile and the most confusing pseudo-literary subvertainment of no
times  

The BOOK of NEOISM?! is based on the concept of accumulationist theory
that takes everything for free values expanding in translinear history's
timeless zone of vertical reality. In vertical reality, symbolized by
the sixoclock arrow, past, present and future are not separated but
everything happens and accumulates simultaneously at the same time at
sixoclock. That's where the definition of NEOISM?! is: in this confusing
mess of millions of accumulating ideas. 

The BOOK of NEOISM?! is a massive accumulation of thousands of
interchangable definitions of NEOISM?!. Most of them are simple
appropriations taken/stolen from various well known, less known and
unknown authors and added, altered, cut, restructured, developed, fucked
up, improved, recomposed, destroyed, deteriorated, reorganized,
dethroned, revaluated, abused, galvanized, anti-freezed, dehydrated,
dehibernated, recontextualized, totalized, reswallowed, welded,
remastered, untouched or distorted beyond recognition. Creating
thousands of different definitions of NEOISM?! is almost the same as not
having written a single definition and therefore leaving the subject
(NEOISM?!) open to any interpretation in any directions one can possibly
go. 

It has been declared many times by both masochist Neoists?! and sadist
anti-Neoists!? that NEOISM?! is nothing but worthless rhetoric.
To repeat this again and again is important because the secret force of
NEOISM?! is in repetition. Repeating worthless ideas is basically
corresponds with meditational methods of Yoga and the teachings of Tao.
Is that to say therefore that there is a direct line that connects
NEOISM?! to Taoism via Yoga? NEOISM?! is not only the story of my
experience with Yoga and Tao but also of Yoga's and Tao's experience
with me.  

To put together The BOOK of NEOISM?! I appropriated the ideas of
Buddhism, Taoism, the Islam, the sayings of Confucius, the Bible, the
Vedas, The Complete Idiot's Guide series, the Gilgamesh, Zionism,
idiots, murderers, gangsters, pop-stars, sex workers, unknown heros, my
father, the Catholic Church, the Rivington School, the Tibetan Book of
the Dead, children books, the ideology of Fascism, Communism,
Capitalism, Socialism, Anarchy and Nihilism, all the philosophers from
Aristotle and Plato to Baudrillard via Hegel, Kierkegaard, Fourier,
Marx, Sartre, Marcuse, McLuhan, Reich, all the isms of the avant-garde
from Dada to Post-Modernism via Surrealism, Futurism, Lettrism,
Situationism, Fluxus, Actionism, Noism, Fuckism, Whatism, Stupidism, all
the ideas of scientific and visionary minds from Descartes to Joe Davis
via Galilei, Newton, Einstein, Edison, Tesla, Stephen W. Hawking.

I also reused and integrated the ideas of revolutionaries and anarchists
like Bakunin, Kropotkin, Lenin, Trotsky, Emiliano Zapata, Buenaventura
Durutti, Emma Goldman, Rosa Luxemburg, Che Guevara, Abbie Hoffman,
Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, Guy Debord, David Zack, writers and
poets like Endre Ady, Orwell, Camus, Henry Miller, Ginsberg,
J.G.Ballard, Bob Black, Hakim Bey, Kathy Acker, Blaster Al Ackerman.

I robbed the intellect of occultist Aleister Crowley, starving fuck-off
genius tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, and countless others from Krishna to
Hitler, from Michelangelo to Dali, from Charles Manson to Jack Smith,
from Wagner to Robert Filliou, from Eric Satie to Yves Klein, and also
Marinetti, Tatlin, Cornelius Cardew, Kaprow, Gina Pane, Vaneigem, Sari
Dienes, Genesis P.Orrige, Juppiter-Larsen, and more and more and many
many many endless more. Their names are imprinted on my mind and are
also listed at the end of each chapter. 

The BOOK of NEOISM?! is characterized by its exalted uselessness and
voluminous emptiness. Because The BOOK of NEOISM?! is just pure bullshit
and unreadable claptrap it can be considered a perfect masterpiece, an
opus dei or opera omnia of NEOISM?!. The only purpose of NEOISM?! is to
simulate and to pretend that NEOISM?! is actually a real movement with
real philosophical background. 

The BOOK of NEOISM?! is only one example and just a small part of the
mindfucking massive chaos of definitions that surrounds us. The BOOK of
NEOISM?! attempts, once and for all, to define NEOISM?!, and, at the
same time, to make the definition of NEOISM?! impossible, through an
endless flow of (de)definitions.

NEOISM?! is only a name and should stay only a name, so anyone can use
it, without restrictions, without any rules, anywhere, and in any ways. 
Call yourself Monty Cantsin? ! Do everything in the name of NEOISM?!.


AMEN! The Book of NEOISM?! 6 volumes / 36 chapters / about 500pages /
text only / images optional / short version possible / volume by volume
or chapter by chapter is also possible



bloody greetings
a monty cantsin?