Andrew Boyd
Life's Little Deconstruction Book
Self-Help for the Post-Hip
An excerpt
1.
Talk about anything in the context
of anything else.
2.
Implicate yourself in every interpretation.
3.
Dip into nihilism.
4.
Sample.
5.
Need what recently didn't exist.
6.
Expose depth as another surface.
7.
Pose.
8.
Control the remote.
9.
Read the text as you desire.
10.
Learn to play a financial instrument.
11.
Bathe in an image of the natural.
12.
Play each role in good faith.
13.
Publicize your privates.
14.
Pretend to be real.
15.
Fashion reason.
16.
Reason about fashion.
17.
Participate without belonging.
18.
Disenchant.
19.
Be as different from the Joneses as you can afford.
20.
Dissolve truth into a patchwork of
language games.
21.
Indicate absence.
22.
Beg the question.
23.
Debt-finance immediate gratification.
24.
Resist — only to find yourself disarmed
and reabsorbed.
25.
Inflate.
26.
Disdain theorists.
27.
Don't seek the whole.
28.
Confuse art and advertising.
29.
Replace your models of reality with
models as reality.
30.
Sport amused, matter-of-fact cynicism.
31.
Withdraw into shell-shocked blasé.
32.
Helplessly and forever, contain the Other.
33.
Be as if.
Copyright © 1998 Andrew Boyd All rights reserved.
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