To continue the thread began in The Posthuman and the Information Guerrilla and followed in Informatic Guerrilla Warfare, the DIU presents “An Information Guerrilla Reader”, a somewhat haphazard text-dump that will elucidate some aspects of what this figure could look like, while also remaining in the territories of the vague. Enjoy!

Tristan Tzara “Dada Manifesto of 1918” (1918)

Norbert Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (1950)

Guy Debord and Gil J. Wolman “A User’s Guide to Detournement” (1956)

William S. Burroughs “The Invisible Generation” (1962)

William S. Burroughs “The Cut-Up Method” (1963)

Stewart Home “Mail Art” 

Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot49 (1966)

Umberto Eco “Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare” (1967)

William S. Burroughs “The Electronic Revolution” (1970)

Paul Ryan “Cybernetic Guerrilla Warfare” (1971)

Steve Wright Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomous Marxism 

Semiotext(e) Schizo-Culture (1978)

Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz…