Fluxion4

The first step is somewhat akin to satori--the realization
that the TAZ begins with a simple act of realization.
Waiting for the Revolution
The second generating force behind the TAZ springs
HOW IS IT THAT “the world turned
from the historical development I call “the closure
upside-down” always manages
of the map.” The last bit of Earth unclaimed by any
to Right itself? Why does reaction nation-state was eaten up in 1899. Ours is the first cen-
always follow revolution, like seasons tury without terra incognita, without a frontier. Nation-
in Hell?
ality is the highest principle of world governance--not
Uprising, or the Latin form insurrec-
one speck of rock in the South Seas can be left open,
tion, are words used by historians to
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not one remote valley, not even the Moon and planets.
label failed revolutions--movements
which do not match the expected

This is the apotheosis of “territorial gangsterism.” Not
issue
curve, the consensus-appr
FLUXION
oved tra-
IssUe 4
the map is closed, but the autonomous zone is open
jectory: revolution, reaction, betrayal,
one square inch of Earth goes unpoliced or untaxed...
the founding of a str

Fluxion
onger and even sectION 1
in theory. The “map” is a political abstract grid, Within
more oppressive State--the turning of
the fractal complexities of actual geography the map
the wheel, the r
ART
eturn of history again POLItIcs
can see only dimensional grids. Hidden enfolded im-
In short,
and again to its highest form: jack- mensities escape the measuring rod. The map is not
we’r
boot on the face of humanity for
e not touting

ever
c
.
ULtUre accurate; the map cannot be accurate.
the T
By failing to follow this curve, the
AZ as an
So—Revolution is closed, but insurgency is open. For
exclusive end in itself,
up-rising suggests the possibility of
Ideas
replacing all other forms
the time being we concentrate our force on temporary
a movement outside and beyond the
of organization, tactics,
“power surges,” avoiding all entanglements with “per-
Hegelian spiral of that “progress”
and goals. W
which is secrPearl Andr
e recommend
etly nothing morews e than a
manent solutions.”
it because it can pr
vicious cirwas right: the dinner party cle. Sur
ovide
go--rise up, surge.
the quality of enhance
Insurgo--rise up, raise oneself up. is already “the seed
-
ment associated with the
A bootstrap operation. A goodbye of the new society
uprising without necessarily
to that wrtaking shape etched parody of the
leading to violence and
karmic rwithin the shell of the old” ound, historical revolution-
martyr
ary futility
dom. The T
The sixties-style “tribal . The slogan “Revolution!”
AZ is like
an uprising which does not
has mutated frgathering,” the forom tocsin to toxin, a est con-
engage dir
malign pseudo-Gnostic fate-trap, a clave of eco-saboteurs, the
ectly with the
State, a guerilla operation
nightmaridyllic Beltane e where no matter how we
which liberates an ar
struggle we never escape that evil of the neo-pagans,
ea (of
land, of time, of imagina
Aeon, that incubus the State, one anarchist confer
-
ences,

tion) and then dissolves
State after anothergay faery circles...Harlem , every “heaven” .”
itself to r
ruled by yet one mor
e-form elsewher
rent parties of the twenties, e evil angel.
e/
ferson
elsewhen, befor
If History IS “Tnightclubs, banquets,
e the State
ime,” as it claims to
can crush it. Because the
be, then the uprising is a moment old-time libertarian picnics
State is concerned primar
that springs up and out of T—we should realize that all
-
ime,
e is liberty
ily with Simulation rather
violates the “law” of Historythese are already . If the
—Thomas Jef
than substance, the T
State IS History“liberated zones” of a sort, , as it claims to be,
AZ
can “occupy” these ar
then the insurror at least potential Tection is the forbid
eas
AZs. -
clandestinely and carry on
den moment, an unforWhether open only to a givable denial
its festal purposes for quite
of the dialectic--shimmying up the few friends, like a dinner
a while in r
pole and out of the smokehole, a party
elative peace.
, or to thousands of
Perhaps certain small
shaman’celebrants, like a Be-In, s maneuver carried out at an

TAZs have lasted whole
“impossible angle” to the universe. the party is always “open”
lifetimes because they
History says the Revolution attains because it is not “ordered”;
went unnoticed, like hillbilly
“permanence,” or at least duration, it may be planned, but
enclaves--because they
while the uprising is “temporaryunless it “ .” In
never intersected with the
this sense an uprising is like a “peak happens” it’s a failure.
e is tyranny;
Spectacle, never appear
experience” as opposed to the stanThe element of spontaneity
ed
-
outside that r
dard of “oris crucial.
eal life which
dinary” consciousness and
is invisible to the agents of
experience. Like festivals, uprisings
Simulation.
cannot happen every day--otherwise The essence of the party:
they would not be “nonorface-to-face, dinary.” But
such moments of intensity give shape a group of humans
and meaning to the entirsynergize their efforts ety of a life.
The shaman rto realize mutual desireturns--you can’es, t stay
up on the rwhether for good food oof forever-- but things
have changed, shifts and integrations and cheer, dance,
have occurrconversation, the arts of ed--a difference is made.
You will arlife; perhaps even for gue that this is a counsel of
despairer. What of the anarotic pleasure, or to crchist dreate eam,
the Stateless state, the Commune, a communal artwork,
the autonomous zone with duration, r to attain the very transport
a free society
to abandon that hope in r
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of bliss-- in short, a , a free culture? Are we
“union of egoists” eturn for
some existentialist acte gratuit? The (as Stirner put it) in its sim-
point is not to change consciousness plest form--or else,
but to change the world.in Kropotkin’s terms,
“When the people fear their government, ther when the government fears the people, ther
I accept this as a fair criticism. I’d a basic biological drive
make two rto “mutual aid.”ejoinders nevertheless;
first, revolution has never yet resulted
The “map” is a political
in achieving this dream. The vision
abstract grid
comes to life in the moment of
uprising--but as soon as “the Revolu
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eam and the ideal are already
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