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SMILE issue 4 vol. 1, December 1986; published in Florence/Italy & Baltimore/USA by John Berndt.

Scanned and put online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-issue-4-vol-1

"Endlessly, we put glasses, cups and bottles down on publications, inscribing them with an infinity of sweating circles. This action, although slight, counts as an invasion of what ts usually an ideological space (the magazine) with an element of personal, nominal reality. Like any action, the aesthetic, symbolic and revolutionary potential of this interaction expands greatly when it is placed in hospitable context. Hence this issue of SMILE, which, like the previous issues, concerns itself with experimental philosophy, and its close companion, fanatical self-derangement. [...]The ideology of this magazine is the ideology of minimalism, that is, the aesthetic of the nominal, and by interacting with it, you reduce yourself to a minimum. [...] This is a user generated magazine of abstract artwork, the manifestation of creativity as the rejection of inertia.

SMILE is an international magazine of multiple origins. The name is fixed, the kind of magazines using it aren't."

#smilemagazine #neoism #montycantsin #plagiarism #zine

SMILE issue 7:
NEOISM: DANCE THE MONTY CANTSIN

published & mostly written by Stewart Home in May 1985, scanned and put online for the first time. With contributions/letters by Istvan Kantor, David "Oz" Zack, Dobrica Kamperelic, Dr. Al "Blaster" Ackerman, Volka Hamann, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (Amir-ul Kafirs), Pete Horobin, M. Diane, with political insert 'Nationalism Today' (= hijack of the periodical of the UK 'National Front').

https://archive.org/details/smile-issue-7-neoism-dance-the-monty-cantsin/

Stewart Home in a letter to Graf Haufen, 1986:

"SMILE 7 was written and typed between January and March 1985, but was not printed up until the night before I left for a trip to Ireland in April. This was because a friend offered to typeset the heading, but took very long time to do this. I delivered the artwork to my printer during the next day and took an overnight train from London to the Stranraer ferry that evening. [...] During this time I reflected on a number of things and came to a series of decisions about change to be made in my life. Minor manifestations of this were that I stopped signing off letters with the phrase As above, so below, and that I was no longer a Neoist. [...] SMILE 7 was printed in May 1985 and by that time unfortunately no longer reflected my praxis."

#neoism #montycantsin #smilemagazine

SMILE 'Individuality collectively realized and abandoned"

- an issue of SMILE, the international zine of multiple origins, published by Monty Cantsin/Dialectical Immaterialism Press, Baltimore, USA, 1989

Contents:
- Proletarian posturing and the strike which never ends
- Critics praise Stewart Home!
- A manifesto of counterrevolutionary communism
- Mythstoric chronicle of the Neoast observer at the so-called "1,000,000th Neoast Apartment Festival"
- Comrades of a Pregroperativistic Homosexuality!
- The "Art" of the "Insane"
- "Cyberpunk Literature"
- Towards a Naive Opportunism

Scanned and online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-collectivity-individually-realized-and-abandoned-1989

#neoism #smile #montycantsin

@skelltan here is another friend who works with blood in their art

#MontyCantsin
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-blood-artist-istvan-kantor-hits-jeff-koons-exhibit-1.2742657