I’m really into zines. Homemade low tech magazines. Zines. Get it?
I’ve made zines before. Collaborative efforts that don’t exist anymore, and solo efforts like this one:
The Principia Discordia is a zine. It’s full of esoteric-sounding, totally nonsensical prose, poems, illustrations and madness. A bunch of hippies wrote it in the 70s but were so committed to the bit that the religion it invented has a mostly-serious wikipedia page dedicated to it, and Robert Anton Wilson is listed as a “philosopher”. Lmao.
Here’s the pdf:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/downloads/Principia%20Discordia.pdf
And here’s some pictures for those of you who are too lazy to click a link and scroll for 20 seconds:
In more recent years Alan Moore made a magazine from 2010-2013 called Dodgem Logic and it is a work of both art and genius. I wrote up articles from it because it is not available anywhere on the internet, except for this useless website:
Here’s my links to the article on magic and a picture:
Magic, Running in the Gutters Like Lightning
Alan invited all his crazy cool friends like Steve Aylett and Margret Killjoy to write articles for every issue, and it’s a magical mag that nobody has ever heard about.
Further inspiration: Aleister Crowley
It is a table of magical correspondences … based on the Hermetic Qabalah.
Who wouldn’t want to write a table of magical correspondences based on the Hermetic Qabalah? That’s what I want to do.
I want to create an occult compendium of everything that we as ingroup have learned.
I believe that in my parts of Twitter, something incredible is happening. Knowledge, theories, methods, language and art from throughout history and from throughout ourselves are being mixed, performed, fed back and mixed again on a continuous basis. We are surfacing knowledge and creating new metis in a distributed, networked way and on a new and unknown scale. This is knowledge-maxxing in an unprecedented time, known as the Weirding.
I want to document this time, which has never been before, nor will it be again. I want to make a magazine of everything we’ve discovered, everything we know to be True, dressed up in esoteric stream-of-consciousness language and not bothering much with editing because that’s boring, and pretending it’s not incredibly True and Real knowledge so that vulnerable ones can bounce off of it easily but for those who come after us looking for breadcrumbs in the sand they will find us and benefit from our knowledge.
This is a call for Twitter friends, moots and pack mates to send me their written babblings, their esoteric tweets, their nonsensical graphs, their napkin scribblings, their auguary drawings, their hypersigils, their bad poems, their favourite passages lovingly plagiarised, their vibe drawings, their manic mandalas and conspire together to make a thing of wonder and also silliness.
The digital construction of these properties can happen any time, and be released or distrubuted in dribs and drabs. It can be remote collaboration with my remote friends, digitally disseminated. And I’m actively taking input on what forms we use to make available this pile of information.
But there is something to be said of vibing irl together to create the stuff in the first place. I have no formal way of sorting that out right now but hopefully we can have an irl physical component to this project, likely in Berlin, where a small team can collaborate, collate, typeset and layout the magazine and then physically, literally print the thing into hard copies for small-time distribution, creating scarcity and rareness. This is our only hope of irl for now. OR, if you dig it, let’s arrange to hang out mfers.
Either way, any and all are invited to submit to the magazine, tentatively named Compendium Spectaculum for now, and allow me the pleasure of collating our knowledge, our jokes and our art into a beautiful beacon from the present to the future.
DM me on Twitter for an email inbox address to send your stuff.
L. F. G!!
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