Puppet City - 10/11/2005

... and Eerie said: "We must construct a new city far away from this dreaded town." Puppet City will be defined by its inhabitants, who will never be alone as they will always be accompanied by their Cardboard Buddies . No new buildings will be built, insteads new personae will emerge in a preexisting city (AKA New Smyrna Beach, Florida), as "the 'nuclear units' of new politics must be the citizen... it embodies the ideal of philia, autonomy, rationality, and above all, civil committment." [Clark: Municipal Dreams] The audiences and participants' ears and minds will be "educated unconsciously." [Leavis: Fictions and the Reading Public] Are we just a bunch of Utopian Socialists with delusions of grandeur?

Fuck no! After three weeks of intense transformation, we have proved that a cardboard community will work in today's society. Here are some photographic evidence in case you don't believe me.

Related readings: Buddy Manual, Atlantic Center for the Arts