When you go outside, bring the inside with you—a book, a magazine, a mobile phone—until the sky becomes the lid on a petri dish.
Let the Rapture play out in reverse: let everything you own ascend to a heaven of pure abstraction, leaving you only your solid bodies and the close proximity in which you find yourselves.
Alternatively, give all you have to the rich, who will know what to do with it so much better than you do.
It’s essential to be as poor as possible.
Surrender your personal space but not your personal agendas. You’re going for chaos, not collective action.
Avoid engagement with the natural world, to the extent that it persists in flaunting its pollen and its noisy card-shuffles of wings.
Pullulate. Flocculate. Agglomerate.
Whenever someone from another world appears among you, searching for proofs of his superiority, be sure to swarm in your best Brownian motion.
OTHER POSTS IN THE SERIES
- How to wake up
- How to eat
- How to walk
- How to listen
- How to wait
- How to breathe
- How to find things
- Manual: How to make videopoems, courtesy of Swoon
- How to lose
- How to dance
- How to procreate
- How to play
- How to listen: the movie
- How to mourn
- How to calculate
- How to grow up
- How to spit
- How to burn
- How to mourn, Belgian-style
- How to make a fist
- How to make a face
- How to sacrifice
- How to take notes
- How to talk
- How to dig
- How to sleep
- How to cast a shadow
- How to teem
- How to fit in
- How to sit
- How to panic
- How to exist
- How to drive
- How to question authority
- How to cook
- How to find things (videopoem)
- How to distress furniture
- How to meditate
- How to be a poet
I’m going to miss this series, Dave. Really.
What a wonderful mix of the absurd and the profound.
Thanks! It’s a long way from being over yet, I think (knock wood).
28 on 28 (now 29) and still a long way from being over? I now look forward to your edition on ‘How to count’!
Not sure I’ll do that one. Might be hard to differentiate from “How to calculate.” I could give it a shot, though.