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                   MEETING UP WITH A DANGEROUS CHARACTER:
                               LUTHER BLISSETT

         "'Mac Guffin' is the name by which we call this sort of
    action: stealing papers, stealing a document, stealing a secret. The
    thing is not important in itself, and logicians go wrong in searching
     for a truth in the Mac Guffin. In my work I've alwais thought that
   while the 'papers', the 'documents' or the 'secret' of the construction
    of a fortress must be important for the characters of the movie, they
        have to be of no interest to me, to the story-teller" (Alfred
                                 Hitchcock).


      Luther Blissett is both the story-teller and the Mac Guffin of a
    board-game played on the stage of the world. It is essentially a grim
   theory of conspiracy which mostly makes use of techniques tested in the
      Mail Art (Ethe)real Network (MULTIPLE NAMES, 'Add, Pass & Return'
     creations etc.) in order to manipulate and overturn the language of
    myths, the archetypes of the popular culture as well as the neo-pagan
                            religious experience.
         It is a sort of lucid shamanism which does not belong to a
   pre-democratic and pre-individual view of the world (i.e. a claim to a
      totalitarian social unity); on the contrary it puts itself BEYOND
   democracy and the individuality, in the name of a free chaotic empathy
          between the creatures, as if we were charming Betazoids.
      Sometimes the links between the elements of the project happen to
   recall the most entangled detective stories (e.g. "The Long Goodbye" by
      Raymond Chandler or "White Jazz" by James Ellroy), or maybe 'Paco
             Ignacio Taibo meets Paracelsus at an Illegal Rave'.
   [eye.gif] The game consists in forcing the Wo/Mankind to deal with the
    Catastrophe and lie down next to it, so that we can't be caught while
    we sleep. When one feels up to being in safety, at worst her/his mind
    will PLAY WITH the Catastrophe as an improbable contingency, and some
   modest assurance will be enough to give her/him shelter. But we are NOT
   in safety: as a whole, the present-day social relations are nothing but
   an infectious neuro-epidemic, so we must PLAY INTO the Catastrophe and
      tie our symbolic capital up to it, in order to keep the Northwest
                                Passage open.
    [blisset1.jpg] [blisset1.jpg] The Multiple Name becomes a borderline
   experience, a live broadcast from the last promontory of the centuries:
   "At the beginning of a century you may act the experimentalist, but the
   end is like a western, one makes it a point of duty to describe what's
              happening and sum it up..."(Andrea G. Pinketts).
       Luther Blissett is not a 'teamwork identity' as reported by the
    journalists; rather, it is a MULTIPLE SINGLE: the 'Luther Blissetts'
   don't exist, only Luther Blissett exist. Today we can infuse ourselves
   with vitality by exploring any possibility of escaping the conventional
                                 identities.
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                                ...go ahead!
                and read about TV COPS or THE RUMNEY REVENGE
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