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Towards the clandestine

An aspect that stays behind the kitchen curtain that could benefit from being public is the FOOLING AROUND practice, or fictioning the most unrealistic scenarios, sometimes even absurd. It is about making a counterfactual history — what-if-history—alongside futuristic speculations and thinking about absurd consequences, grotesque musings about unheard-of traffic jams, scenes of not-working innovations, what can go wrong?

Return of the Repressed

I struggle to imagine how to make pubic the clandestine aspects of my research, these wild-grown inquiries, the windy, unstable vagabond scavenger methods. It is a mystic who makes these hypothesis, whose research is deeply gnostic, withdrawn, nesting in the secret hiding place. But the mystic knows so well how to fool around, so perhaps I want to do sort of a paradoxical move - to publish what is meant to be hidden, unspoken, whispere,d and roared silently.

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The FOOLING AROUND is a transient practice. Thus, it should include an extermination timer —a period during which the persona is public —and an explicit rule on how it vanishes from public view. Others can easily reuse the script for the FOOLED scene by mentioning the framework. The fooling happens at a site specifically for the people around, forming a circle, a magic circle, perhaps even a circus. Historically, peers of this practice are fools and jesters who were doing upside-down hanging in the temporary autonomous zones or in the carnival time. However, the a-historical nature of FOOL-AROUNDING technique insists that the life is a circus (not a fair) all the time, it requires suspension of the the walking and talking habits, that wait for consistency.