Mayday(s) 2007 Press Release: XL Terrestrials present THE TRANSMIGRATION OF CINEMA May 16, 2007 at New College Theater in San Francisco The XL Terrestrials present “THE TRANSMIGRATION OF CINEMA” May 16, 2007 New College Theater 777 Valencia Street San Francisco 6:30-9pm $5, no one turned away The XL Terrestrials, a team of unlicensed psycho-media analysts and illegitimate art practitioners from San Francisco, Berlin and beyond, present […]

Important debate going on at Laughing Squid about whether or not to use the Amazon beast and useful discussions re: how to support artists, local bookstores and publishers, local economies, etc. More reports coming soon, but here’s an XL Terrestrial letter below: [ currently Scott seems to have closed the issue, as well as made some […]

So the next level of Transmigrations will be presented at New College Theater May 16th and we are gathering a few new perspectives: - Assessing the virtual migration Many in the field of Artificial Intelligence have come to the conclusion that intelligence has no bearings without a body, that is to say, without reference to a […]

We’re sure there’s a good Paul Virillio quote that would be appropriate to describe the backlash and whiplash of dropping out of the PsychoCapital rhythms with its hyper-strained neck sticking out the window to fan the flames and smell the fumes… but no time for that… Here’s a quick drive-by (on bicycle of course) of […]

So we are going to engage (and indulge) in the praxis we have been alluding to with our media deconstructionals: plunging into the deep offline zones for an all-too-brief Breathing In, into the life without the “Bio-ports” ! For those who are not familiar that’s a reference to David Cronenberg’s “Existenz”. It’s one […]

We are so excited to present at LA ECO VILLAGE this Friday, see details below. And we’ve been trying to assemble some text to log the bizarre experiences of LA, Das Psychomedia Kapital, the city that William Burroughs descibed as the place with a paper-thin sky that could go up in flames at any […]

XL Terrestrials made an emergency landing in the Hollywood Hills yesterday. The LA Times is reporting that 2 teenagers from Illinois were setting off fireworks and turned themselves into police that afternoon. Initially detained by LAPD officers and then released to their parents’ custody, they are pending possible prosecution for reckless fire setting. But the story is a cover-up for the city that remains entirely vulnerable to alien invasions and conscious visitations. Later that night 2 of the aliens appeared at Telic Arts Exchange in Chinatown to deliver the message that the Psychomedia Capital is responsible for spewing millions of Spectacle terrabytes into the psychic atmosphere per year and that the situation regarding the mental stability of the planet has become dire.

Press Release, March 23, 2007 XL Terrestrials begin “The Psychomedia Capital” tour on March 30th at Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles. Other SoCal and leftcoast dates TBA. __ __ __ __ __ The XL Terrestrials present “THE TRANSMIGRATION OF CINEMA” A screening program ranging from art flix to mainstream movies to guerrilla media to ubiquitous online effluvium, all presented in […]

As we are assembling new clips and fine-tuning for The Transmigration Of Cinema v. 4.0 for our Psychomedia Capital + SoCal tour, we started revisiting the work of Adam Curtis, “Century Of The Self” (2002) in particular, and realized his newest 3 part BBC Documentary is already being aired in the UK. Sure to be ripe […]

Bush in Colombia: Bush in Brasil: Bush in Guatemala: Bush in Uruguay: Note: Pics from the respective indymedia sites of each country. And in case your missing the hilarious and deadly serious showdown between Bush and Chavez currently in South and Central America, Chavez called the president of the United States a ” political cadaver” and got thousands at a Buenos Aires rally to chant ” Gringo go home ! ” And if you’re just tuning in you can read some of the news at Democracy Now, with an excerpt from the Chavez speech.

Happy Birthday Chris Carlsson! An unstoppable community warrior on the path to uploading all the artivisms and circling all the comrades one may ever need on that long road to utopia. Blogs and books and zines, hot bubbling grey matter, bikes and mass euphorian maps, strategies and dreams, all to keep you actively enagaged with a frame of mind that will have you riding for free on The Committee For Full Enjoyment train immediately: www.chriscarlsson.com the blog: www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson Fall/Winter Talks: http://www.

Steve Bell at www.guardian.co.uk Another dead-on piece by Steve Bell at the Guardian.co.uk

The G8 Dissent Info Tour is just one of a growing multiplicity of organizations mobilizing resistance against and alternatives to the hegemony of the world’s richest nations, which will meet for their infamous annual summit this June 6-8 in Heilegendamm, Germany near to Rostock. For the basic info of where you can catch their events in […]

[ Note: One of nearly a thousand new Polish art posters at Pigasus Gallery in Berlin. More coming soon ! This bit of genius is from FRANCISZEK STAROWIEYSKI ] Standby for processing… A. And the Oscar goes to Al Gore while lathering his ancient rubber chickenhead with Occidental Petroleum as Ellen Degeneres reaches under her skirt to scratch the last of the U’wa tribe and all the Iraqi sitcom-grandchildren from her dry caking botoxed labia before she cracks a head-on smile.

“The only interesting venture is the liberation of everyday life, not only in a historical perspective, but for us, right now. This project implies the withering away of all the alienated forms of communication. The cinema, too, must be destroyed.” G. Debord … The Society of the Spectacle is neither an ivory tower philosophical discourse nor a helplessly impulsive protest, but a ruthlessly lucid examination of the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society we live in. This means that it needs to be reread (and reseen) many times, but it also means that it remains as pertinent as ever while countless radical and intellectual fads have come and gone.