At a surrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara the man from nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat. A riot ensued and wrecked the theater. Collage is the creation of artwork through the re-arranging of materials already present in the artist's environment. Andre Breton expelled Tristan Tzara from the movement and grounded the cut-ups on the Freudian couch. In many ways, the body itself is made of bricolage as cholesterol and proteins arranged over time into a cohesive structure.

A persona or projected self is created by cutting newspaper articles into sections and rearranged the sections at random. Minutes to Go resulted from this initial cut-up experiment. Minutes to Go contains unedited unchanged cut ups emerging as quite coherent and meaningful prose. The cut-up method, a process of remixing the available memes and subcultures, form around deforming, transforming, or refusing specific aspects of their cultural memepool. Sorting and selecting from the memes available, most of us pre-consciously create a composite identity that is worn as a vehicle to navigate and negotiate social spaces. In fact all street shots from movie or still cameras are cut-ups by the unpredictable juxtaposition factors of passers by.

The act of selecting a self out of memes is a conceptual bricolage which produces a persona. From within this autonomous sphere memes breed and mutate, as the persona evolves over time within this shared space. And photographers will tell you that often their best shots are accidents... writers will tell you the same. There is no way to produce the accident of spontaneity. An iterative process occurs as well, where the results of these remixes are passed back and forth, and as people themselves change in the face of stimulus and stress. You can not will spontaneity. But you can introduce the unpredictable spontaneous factor with a pair of scissors.

In general memes do not work on your rational mind but rather they affect your unconscious, emotionally entangled, decision-making processes. The method is simple. Here is one way to do it. To affect the structure of our experience and the experience of those bodies, take a page. Like this page. Now cut down the middle and cross the middle. You have four sections: 1 2 3 4 . . . . Memetics does not in general affect things directly, but rather must work through, or on, human agents. Now rearrange the sections. And you have a new page. While we are generally only conscious of messages that are delivered linearly via some specific linguistic pattern, our nervous system also absorbs messages of associational or juxtapositional natures. However, there is no reason to assume memetics requires language to operate. All identity construction, in addition to being a kind of bricolage, is also existent only within a social context.

Take any poet or writer you fancy. Here, say, or poems you have read over many times. The words have lost meaning and life through years of repetition. Now take the poem and type out selected passages. Fill a page with excerpts. Now cut the page. You have a new poem. You do not have an identity without some kind of community formation against which to project that identity. Poetry is a place and this community space is also a theater in which performance and stress builds connections. It is free to cut up Rimbaud, and you are in Rimbaude is a Rimbaud poem cut up.

Visit of memories. Modern communication systems and your voice house. The suburban air is not constrained to linguistic patterns - all harmonic pine for strife. The technology and behaviors necessary to construct these communications depend on linguistics and textuality.

The great skies are open. Candor of vapor and tent spitting blood laugh and drunken penance. "The propaganda of the deed" is most commonly pictured as terrorism, but can mean any dramatic or awe-inspiring action designed as communication.

Promenade of wine perfume opens slow bottle.

In the past the actions only affected those who were physically present. If those not present were effected it was via a retelling or textualizing. Today's media is an environment in which events and actions are filmed, associated with various emotional markers through juxtaposition and shown directly to many people repeatedly has widened the seeing colors tasting sounds smelling forms of these types of communication.

The great skies are open. Supreme bugle burning flesh children to mist. It is against this backdrop of our current communication structure that terrorism has gained its modern power and prevalence, as it is one thing to be told that hundreds of people have died in an event, but it is quite another thing entirely to be shown the hallucination in all its drama, movement, color, and cut-ups. Anybody can make cut ups. It is experimental in the sense of being something to do. Right here write now.

Everything that seeks change has a vector along which its movement can be plotted. Cut the word lines and you will hear their voices. A memetic body includes the people who share the meme and the objects they use in achieving the meme's intention. Thus while a memetic body, or meme bearer, has at least a metaphorical mass and vector, and this body impacts the larger social organism by its movement and communications, it need not necessarily be a living human. Not something to talk and argue about. Greek philosophers are also capable of transmitting memes, they too are a memetic body. Cut the memes and see how they fall.

Shakespeare and Rimbaud live in their words. Group behavior is truly an intriguing thing to observe in action. Group minds are, by and large, infectious and possessive. Cut the word lines and you will hear their voices. They seem to displace elements of identity at the pre-conscious level, and as such effect decision-making processes of those involved with the group mind, hijacking the decision-making system. Cut-ups often come through as code messages with special meaning for the cutter. Table tapping? Perhaps. Another factor to consider is that bonds are intensified by stress, and a group that deals with massive amounts of internal and external stress will have a significantly stronger egregore than other groups of similar size but with much less stress. Certainly an improvement on the usual deplorable performance of contacted poets through a medium.

Once an individual is conscious of the influence of institutions, egregores, and memes, they can more accurately constrain the selection of reactions present in the preconscious mind at any given moment. Games and Economic Behavior announce themselves, to be followed by some decisions to be based on the individual's intentions and desires. Rather than remaining hardwired to the options imposed by external entities, you are assured of good poetry at least if not personal appearance.

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overhead to expose and deconstruct one's external influences. What else? was hinted at in the previous section and consists of successive iterations of remixing and collaging. As discussed previously, one's self can be seen as a bricolage, an assemblage of various memes. Clear classical idea of the self is composed entirely of rearranged cut-ups. The result of this perception is that one is able then to begin evolving the idea of the self. The self is no longer seen as a singular unit, but rather as a community of interrelated entities perpetually sorting, mixing, selecting, and arranging stimuli into a composite our conscious mind interprets as reality.

Cutting and rearranging a page of written words introduces a new dimension into writing enabling the writer to turn images in cinematic variation. Images shift sense under the scissors smell images to sound sight to sound sound to kinesthetic. This ongoing, internal cut-up process continues to provide fresh and innovative ideas that the conscious self is often compelled to share with other individuals, which they then internalized and route through the same processes. This is where Rimbaud was going with his color of vowels. Seeing colors tasting sounds smelling forms. Personal evolution.

Taking "systematic derangement of the senses" out of the preconscious awareness and consciously deciding to create a personal evolution, or to manipulate samples, or cut-up text, is an act of revealing one's preconscious influences. Collage will bring to awareness the subliminal influences that are acting upon your decision-making processes. Sometimes it says much the same thing. Sometimes something quite different.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, you can accelerate personal evolution by joining and participating in a community of meme sharers and engaging in the iterative process of collating, manipulating, and sharing memes within that group. As said previously, it's important to be conscious of what kind of groups you are associated with, and to assess the validity of the information that the group champions, the memes the group disseminates, and how the group's goals dovetail with your own long-term goals. Dr Neumann in his Theory of Games and Economic Behavior introduces the cut-up method of random action into game and military strategy: assume that the worst has happened and act accordingly. Most importantly, you need to know who you are and what you bring to the group. Your strategy is at some point determined. Your opponent will gain no advantage from knowing your strategy since he can not predict random factors.

Knowing yourself means knowing your weaknesses, knowing your emotional boundaries, and knowing your psychological triggers. As a reader, your perceptions and insights that arise from this book will be substantially different depending on if you identify as an individual, as a member of a group, or as a leader of a group. The aim here is to become conscious, both of the influences that exert external pressure on individual identity and the influence an individual can have within a group dynamic toward a specific outcome. You can introduce the unpredictable spontaneous factor with a pair of scissors.

The cut-up method could be used to advantage in processing scientific data. How many discoveries have been made by accident? We can not produce accidents to order. The cut-ups could add new dimension to films. Cut gambling scene in with a thousand gambling scenes all times and places. Cut back. Cut streets of the world. Cut and rearrange the word and image in films. Masterminding is manifesting a group dynamic or pattern that sustains the energy of the group, and having access to a method to map out individuals within the group greatly facilitates this work. There is no reason to accept a second-rate product when you can have your best. And the best is there for all. Poetry is for everyone . . .