A6: Validity Notice

What am I doing? Not a Masters (NaM) Unit 1: The Stories I Tell Myself The Assignment Legitimacy Manifesto — Write a manifesto stating why my art is legitimate. How to Write a Manifesto Step 1: Roll your eyes Another manifesto? Really? Don’t we have more than enough “manifestos” on the Internet? Can we call it something else, would that help? Or does procrastinating the assignment by scrolling through a thesaurus mean the professor was right about making us write these legitimacy manifestos? God, I hate this kind of shit. Do you have any idea how many actual guides to writing manifestos exist? So, so many. This is not a real guide to writing a manifesto, it’s going to be an actual manifesto just as soon as I’m done complaining about it. Step 2: Reflect on historical events Every manifesto ever came as the result of what exactly? Usually some group of people getting together and deciding that the world didn’t understand them and they needed to write in clear language who they are and…