“Everything delicate & beautiful, from Surrealism to Breakdancing, ends up as fodder for McDeath's ads; 15 minutes later, all the magic has been sucked out, & the art itself dead as a dried locust.”

— Hakim Bey

Immediatism (AK Press: 1994)

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American political writer, poet and essayist 1945

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