Also on that landing page, offered for sale for the first time outside of a couple of in person appearances, is our Sky Pirate Manifesto poster.

I wrote this, taking inspiration from the Futurist manifesto.

The Futurists were not good people, but they were fascinating.

This one takes some explanation.

I've always had a perverse fascination with the Italian futurists. They were artists and poets, often very progressive but also frequently as regressive as you can imagine, who were eventually seduced by and subsumed into the Italian Fascist movement.

They stood at odds with the fascist in many ways. The fascists were desperate for a return to some lost glory, the futurists conversely were most concerned with leaving that old world behind.

The Russian futurists, Soviet futurists, took the basic ideas of Italian futurism and divorced them from the fascism and senseless violence, leaving something significantly more interesting.

As I've explored this history, this poetry, these paintings and films, and thought about how the Futurist movement was building at the same time that Filibus was produced...

Well, I was inspired.

What happens when you take the idea that art and poetry are political, and that the politics of art and poetry can bring about the future, but remove from that the idea of SPEED and PROGRESS by any means necessary?

What happens when you bring humanity back into your artistic statement of political purpose?

What happens if you replace the dictatorial speed and gunfire obsession of the futurists with an anarchist, humanist embrace of the slow?

Hence my #SkyPirate manifesto.

I could see he was curious, but I knew he had no interest in lengthy history lessons, so I said, “I can do it in 15 minutes. I can give you a 15-minute history lesson that will explain ICE and our current politics.”

“Can I use a timer?” he asked.

I said certainly.

I prepared the lesson, and my nephew started the timer.

For what I told him, click here: https://terikanefield.com/let-my-people-in/