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SMILE

Call the magazine that you start SMILE because plagiarizing this name will give you a good start on the road to copyright infringement, and I promise to take absolutely no legal action whatsoever against anyone who plagiarizes the title of the magazine.

If you are not sure of what to plagiarize, a good place to start looking is in old copies of SMILE. You could even start by plagiarizing this article. A purist would plagiarize the whole piece verbatim, but you are free to change a word here or there, or place the paragraphs in a different order.

A fine example of plagiarism inspired directly by the pioneering example of SMILE is SLIME. SLIME is even less original than SMILE and hence infinitely better.

The Neoist Cultural Conspiracy encourages plagiarism because plagiarism saves time and efforts, improves results and shows initiative on the part of the plagiarist.

If property is theft that means . . .

intellectual property  is mind control!

PLAGIARISM® MADE EASY

Plagiarism® in late capitalist society articulates a semi-conscious cultural condition: namely, that there is ‘nothing left to say,’ a feeling made more potent by the theoretical possibility of access to all knowledge brought about by new technologies. The practitioners of much of ‘post-modern’ theory have tended to proclaim this feeling rather smugly; but if there is nothing to say, they yet demonstrate that there will ‘always’ be something to sell. On the other hand, there are practitioners active in many disciplines who, recognizing the necessity for collective action demanded by the media such as film and electronic tape, engage in Plagiarism® in an attempt to expose and explode once and for all the individualistic attitudes which tend to make all human activity seem redundant and increasingly alienated.