could be described as an indirect
culture jamming outgrowth of the
The concept of TAZ was first
Dada movement, and the Situation-
put into practice on a large
ists. One of its central concepts is
scale by the Cacophony
the Trip to the Zone, or Zone Trip,
Society[The Cacophony Society is
inspired by the Temporary Autono-
“a randomly gathered network
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mous Zone.
of free spirits united in the

pur-
According to self-designated
suit of experiences beyond


Fluxion
the
members of the Society, “you may
pale of mainstream society.”
already be a member.” The anarchic
in what they called Trips to the Zone,


issue
nature of the Society means that
or Zone Trips. One of their Zone Trips
membership is left open-ended
YY
gave birth to Black Rock City, AKA 4 the
and anyone may sponsor an event,
Burning Man Festival
though not every idea pitched
garners attendance by members.
Cacophony events often involve cos-
o
tumes and pranks in public places
and sometimes going into places
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that are generally off limits to the
—Marshall McLuhan
public.

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symbol of the “Indian” for its focus: for its formless form which took the sympathy for it, a feeling of yearning cination with the inchoate, a sneaking also informed in part by an actual fas abundance. But this alchemical vision is spiritual perfection as well as material transmute into “gold,” that is, into or inchoateness which the adept would and all-possibility (“V hyle, the “state of Natur associated it with materia prima or The alchemical view of the New W
oject of “higher” or owth fr
om the very start with the magic
ild Man, is lodged like a virus in the
oached by “surfing the wave-fr
eturn” which is also a step forwar
AZ AS A CONSCIOUS radi
AZ involves a kind of ferality
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“When the people fear their government, ther when the government fears the people, ther when the government fears the people, ther
The “map” is a political
abstract grid
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