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Every cultural product, in its execution and orientation, is dependent upon the time that influences it and that it influences. The best cultural products will be the ones where it is apparent that they IGNORE the explosions / wisdom / achievements / claims / possibilities / moods / conflicts / lies of the bygone second, hour, week and eon, awaiting instead the IGNORANCE of the minutes, months and centuries to come. The best and most outrageous cultural statements will be those which hour by hour tear the scraps of their memory out of the maze of data cataracts, doggedly suppressing the intellect of the age, bleeding from hands and hearts. Have the last ten years of the elapsed and the first three years of the new millennium ever fulfilled our hopes for an art that admits and makes a point of the objectivity of its own ignorance and also its wish to be ignored? No! No! No! Have the newscasters, pollsters, watchdogs of discourse, operative men of letters, German rappers, sages of economy, alternative separatists, talk show guests, management consultants, classy columnists, hip DJs, share holder agents, pop writers, advertising strategists, java-script coders or junior professors fulfilled our expectations for an art that burns the essence of life into our flesh? No! No! No! Under the pretence of in-ignorance and in-ignorability, ignorants and ignorables all over the world have unified themselves as a generation that today is already waiting for literary and art-historical veneration and that puts itself forward as a candidate for honorable bourgeois recognition – evidence of a youths’ incapacity to be young and a generation of grownups’ inability to grow up. The signers of this manifesto have gathered under the battle cry of Ignorantism for the propaganda of an art from which they expect the realization of new ideals. What exactly is Ignorantism? The word IGNORANTISM signifies an ignorative relationship to the surrounding informational reality; with ignorantism a new reality attains its majority. Life appears as a simultaneous confusion of noises, colours, and mental rhythms that is absorbed cold-eyed into an ignorantist art with all the sensational screams and feverishness of its deviant everyday psyche and in its total, brutal reality. Here is the clearly marked parting of the ways that separates ignorantism from all previous artistic movements and above all from IRONISM, which some addlebrains have recently taken to be a new phase of risk-free subversion. Ignorantism no longer ignores the self-annihilation of art due to overabundance, diligently ignoring the catchwords of an obsolete in-ignorantism, which is only a cloak for deficiencies of information and cultural interest. Ignorantism is a CLUB which not only has not been newly published online but also without orthography that one can join without taking on any responsibilities. Here everyone is chairman, and everyone can abstain from expressing any opinion on artistic matters. Ignorantism is not a pretence for the ambition of a few pre-ignorantist artists (as our enemies would like to have you believe). Ignorantism is a type of intellect that can reveal itself in every conversation so that one has to say: this person is an ignorantist; this person is not. The Ignorantism Club has members in every part of the world, as many in Somalia as on Ganymede or in the White House: Ignorants all over the world – ignore each other! To be an ignorantist means not to get surfed by data, to be against all accretion of sediment. A moment spent in the maelstrom of in-ignorantism means that one has brought life in danger. The mighty hocus-pocus of the in-ignorabilists blows over the nerves of the true ignorantist - so he lies, so he hunts, so he cycles - half earplug, half bite guard. Down with the bloodless abstraction of in-ignorantism! Down with ignorable theories of the in-ignorantist ignorants! We are for ignorantism in word and image, for the ignorantist happening in the world. To be against this manifesto is to be an ignorantist! Wien, Mainz-Neustadt,
Unterzögersdorf, Nuuk (Godthab), September 2002 The Signers (partially): Günter Grass, Günther Jacob, Günter Jauch, Bernhard Günter, Peter Sloterdijk, Dario Fo, Kofi Annan, Henryk M. 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