The Raving Poets - Project Proposal and Call for Resistance

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To the Secret Siblinghood of Raving Poets

From the Institute of Iconography Department of Manifest Disinformation

Project Proposal and Call for Resistance

Big Box Bureaucracy has been appropriating , annexing, coopting and cannibalizing creative language for far too long. It is the mandate of the Department of Manifest Disinformation to reappropriate the poetry of advertising and subvert it back into general creative usage.

In preparation for future Counter-summit meetings, the World Art Bank and the World Trade Disorganization will be conducting a disinformation seminar. The aim of this seminar will be to instruct participants in the art of disinformation when dealing with Big Box Bureaucracy. The successful candidate will learn how to intimidate faceless bureaucrats with their own abuse of the language, how to threaten corporate materialism with disinterest and how to bombard the enemy bureaucrat with more unusually useless information than they can defend against.

Examples of Useless Information and/or creative disinformation

as approved by the Department of Manifest Disinformation.

a). When Big Box Bureaucracy Syndicate issues any offensive material, offend them back and send an invoice.

b). Demand that all legal documents be written in Elizabethan couplets. If Big Box Bureaucracy fails to comply, a sestina will be issued against the responsible department.

c). When Big Box Bureaucracy threatens your basic democratic interests, accuse them of genocide and sentence them in absentia to life in a smaller box.

d). If you feel that Big Box Bureaucracy Syndicate is overcharging you, offer to pay more than the fair black market value, on the condition that payment be made in Lima beans in lieu of currency.

e). When dealing with Big Box Bureaucracy over the phone, always tell them that the conversation is being recorded and is subject to digital audio manipulation.

f). Whenever BBBS sends you frustrating paperwork containing more than acceptable levels of useless information, respond with Bad Bureaucracy reviews accusing them of crimes against humanity and good taste.

g). Whenever a BBBS subsidiary claims huge losses on money it hasn't even earned yet, inform them that they have been found guilty of fraud and demand your money back in amounts equal to or greater than the total losses they are claiming.

h). When Big Box Bureaucracy presents paid scientific experts wearing tacky vested interests under their lab coats, don't be bafflegabbed, be pseudo-scientific. Refute their findings with your own expert opinions. Stand up for your intellectual property rights with industrial espionage tactics and your own independently improvised statistics. The Institute of Iconography has patented all future scientific discoveries in the name of Art and authorises all affiliate disorganizations to add exhorbitant service charges to their invoices to cover costs of future research.

i). Send Big Box Bureaucracy inter-office memos informing them that they have been retroactively downsized in the hostile corporate takeover by the Institute and that no senior managers will receive their severance packages until they have apologized for their bad manners. Apologies must be in all official languages in the form of Spenserian stanzas.

Addendum (from the Department Anti-Social Realism)

In recent surveillance operations, the Institute of Iconography has discovered that the ancient socialist tactic of nationalizing corporations is obsolete so we have therefore retro-actively abolished all nation states. This in turn renders the tactics of Big Box Bureaucracy Corpse also obsolete and so the Institute has therefore determined to abolish the World Bank and the World Trade Organization and heretofore transfer their assets to the World Art Bank and the Global Potlach. There will be a massive liquidation clearance and garage sale at the next G8 Summit. Everything must go!