New Lettrist International

The Preliminary Committee for the Founding of a New Lettrist International (NLI) was organised by the Neoist Alliance (Stewart Home) and the London Psychogeographical Association.

The NLI aimed to take the work of the Lettrist International forward, particularly having become aware of the Hurufi movement, a Sufi sect teaching that religious meaning is implicit in the Arabic and Persian alphabets, which had emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the early seventeenth century.

Their First Congress was virtual and imaginist, designed to take advantage of modern information technology as well as circumvent the perceived problems with modern technology. It is, was and will be an imaginist Congress. Participants submitted accounts of the proceedings before encountering one another. The organizers hoped that these accounts would intrinsically interconnect, without manipulation by a bureaucratic author. The "Proposal" announcing the Congress alleged that the decisions arrived at most meetings of international organizations are essentially myths, "a technique for window-dressing predetermined decisions and selling them on to the delegates who then carry the message out to the party faithful," and sought to invert the process by making the meeting itself the myth, and inviting the "delegates" to publish their own unmediated thoughts. Organizers claimed that "task groups" would emerge from this process, but none has.

Reports of the founding congress appeared in the following publications:

*Re-action issue 4
*Parasol Post (leaflet accompanying issue 3)
*Turbulent Times issue 6
*Dreamtime is Upon Us! - The 2nd Annual Report of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts

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