PWI Editor’s Note: This writing originally appeared in the liner notes for the ¡TCHKUNG! release "Post World Handbook"

POST WORLD MOVEMENT MANIFESTO

We are living in unprecedented times. Never before has the production of technology and the destruction of the organic achieved such a fevered pace. We are for the first time a world united, for we all labor under one ideology; capital. And as the resources of this planet are mined and funneled into the wealthy and dominant nations of this world, so to do these nations excrete outward their culture of consumerism. A seductive prepackaged mono-cultural illusion of fast food, endless wealth, cars, sex, and violence. The vectors of this cultural disease are the revolutionary media technology of this the twentieth century. Lo, how they build an idol, and boy howdy, how they worship it! A shiny metal machine revered with such fanaticism that to question its omnipotent destiny, its incipient medical technologies, its weapons of genocide, its bureaucratic inhumanity (or hyperhumanity) is to risk the heretics penalty of death. A god of voracious appetite, we offer as sacrifice entire species of life, grinding thousands of unique forms of organic expression into total extinction every year to lubricate our sacred machine. A machine that is just screaming out for vandalism, corrosion, and rust.

The Post World Movement IS that rust.

The Post World Movement maintains that the apocalypse has already happened and you missed it. It concerns itself not with reforming the excesses of the dominant culture, but rather with forming the culture that is to come after its last death throes. A virulent hybrid, Post World architects manipulate the scrap, garbage, and artifacts of the ìrealî world to create new forms of art and technology. Everywhere that you see a sculpture forged from industrial refuse, musical instruments created from car parts, baling wire and duct tape, and vehicles that run for no apparent reason. Whenever you see coyotes and raccoons dumpster diving in the heart of the urban metropolis, rogue clowns, predatory computer viruses cobbled together on makeshift systems, and squatters fabricating furniture and tapping into power lines; whenever you see these things you know the Post World Movement thrives.

Not content with merely existing outside of the temple, the Post World esoterrorist erodes the pillars of the house of worship. SHe points out the flaws in the very stone of the structure. When one culture holds its religious-economic views to be incontrovertible, the Post World vector is only too happy to scour the Earth to inject equally plausible views, thus destroying the illusion of a Unified Truth. As quickly as the dominant mono-culture can export its insidious vision via music, movies, religion, fashion, and food, so too does the Post World Movement seek to counter-infect with precision random media and obscurist sociological noise. Through the introduction of foreign agents into the healthy body of the Reich, the pillar of cultural infallibility is torn from the temple, and the structure weakens.

Technology is the fulcrum upon which the dominator culture has leveraged its attempts to annihilate the organic. We require a complete re-evaluation of the nature and intent of our technological systems. While a tool may be harmless on a small, decentralized scale, when applied on a massive scale the effect may be genocidal. A home computer poses as little threat to the freedom of the human race as a rifle does to the survival of the human race. However, a large government database may affect liberty much as a nuclear warhead affects life. An individuals firewood needs affect a forest quite differently than corporate clearcutting, or large scale rainforest slash and burn. The fisherman and the dragnetter; the local diner and the burger chain; the rebel forces and the death star. Post World technology exists to enhance life as a whole, and not to enrich the temple of gluttony.

With this declaration of intent, TCHKUNG has committed itself in solidarity with the Post World Movement. Whenever possible: subvert the value system of the dominant culture; inject media, music, and concepts from wide and diverse sources into the heartland of the mono-culture; taunt the authority and credibility of mainstream representatives as the lackeys that they are; construct new technologies and instruments from the scrap of the industrial machine. We will build the future world as the current world labors under the assumption that it still exists.

We will rise from the ashes before the fire.