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A Something Else Manifesto (1966)

When asked what one is doing, one can only explain it as "something else." Now one does something big, now one does something small, now another big thing, now another little thing. Always it is something else.

We can talk about a thing, but we cannot talk about a thing. It is always something else.
One might well emphasize this. It happens, doesn't it? Actually, everybody might be in on this Something else, whether he wants it or not. Everyman is.

For what is one confined in one's activity? Commitment on a personal level can be plural. One can be committed to both salads and fish, political action and photographic engineering, art and non-art. One does, we hope, what seems necessary, or at least, not extraneous, not simply that to which one has committed oneself...If one is consistent and inconsistent often enough nothing that one does is one's own, certainly not a form, which is only a part of speech in one's language... So when we are asked for bread, let's give not stones, not stale bread. Maybe we have no bread at all, anyway. But why not give a little chicken? Let's chase down an art that clucks and fills our guts.

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