In Home's earlier work, the focux of these reflections was often Neoism, a subcultural network of which he had been a member, and from which he derived various splinter projects.

The Assault on Culture, written when Home was twenty-five, is an underground art history sketching Home's ultimately personal history of ideas and influences in post-World War II fringe radical art and political currents, and including – for the first time in a book – a tactically manipulated history of post-war culture to make it conclude with Neoism ( and which it is sometimes claimed includes character assassinations of individual Neoists ) that was continued in the later book Neoism, Plagiarism and Praxis.

In 2004 Neoism was cited by Javier Ruis in response to the National Assembly Against Racism's condemnation of anarchists disrupting the Third European Social Forum session on anti-m and anti-racism in London ( PGA Considered As Neoist Invisible Theatre ).

Similarly, Blaster Al Ackerman declared himself a " Salmineoist " after Sicilian-American actor Sal Mineo, and John Berndt was credited by Ackerman as having given Neoism the name " Spanish Art ," circa 1983.

His suggestion was taken up in 1979 by the Hungarian-Canadian performance artist Istvan Kantor who amalgamated the name into Neoism.

Home's SMILE no 8, which appeared in 1985, reflected the split with Neoism by proposing a " Praxis " movement to replace Neoism, with Karen Eliot as its new multiple name.

Neoism a pure fiction created by Anti-Neoists.

Neoist plays like multiple names, plagiarism and pranks were adopted, frequently mistaken for Neoism proper and by mixing in situationist concepts, in other subcultures such as the Plagiarism and Art Strike 1990-1993 campaigns of the late 1980s ( triggered largely by Stewart Home after he had left the Neoist network ), Plunderphonics music, the refounded London Psychogeographical Association, the Association of Autonomous Astronauts, the Luther Blissett project, the Michael K Project, the German Communication Guerilla, and, since the late 1990s, by some net artists such as 0100101110101101. org.

Parody art movements like Neoism and Plagiarism have challenged notions of originality, as have the multiple names Monty Cantsin and Karen Eliot, proposed for serial use by anyone.

He also raises eyebrows by eschewing institutionalized anarchy such as Neoism, preferring instead the strategies of Arthur Cravan.

These multiple names were developed and popularized in artistic subcultures of the 1970s to 1990 like Mail Art, Neoism and post-Situationist discourse, with the pseudonym Rrose Sélavy jointly used by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the surrealist poet Robert Desnos forming a historical pretext.

In April 1984, Home got in touch with the originally American subcultural artistic network of Neoism, and participated in the eighth Neoist Apartment Festival in London.

* One can also trace situationist ideas within the development of other avant-garde threads such as Neoism, as well as artists such as Mark Divo.

Since Neoism operated with multiple identities, too, and called upon all its participants to adopt the name Monty Cantsin, Home decided to give up the " Generation Positive " in favor of Neoism, and make SMILE and White Colours part of Neoism as well.

According to Florian Cramer ( who didn't come into contact with Neoism until the late eighties ) one year later, Home took a sleep-deprivation prank played with him at a Neoist Festival in Italy as the reason to declare his split from Neoism ; Home insists he decided to break with Neosim before going to Italy.

Shortly before, a conflict between him and Neoism founder Istvan Kantor had escalated and led to their alienation.

Aside from reassessments of his earlier engagement with Neoism, the Situationists, punk, and the plagiarism and Art Strike campaigns, and, as his source of income, the continued parodistic pulp-novel writing, Home's style had undergone some significant changes.

* Neoism, Plagiarism and Praxis ( AK Press, London, Edinburgh 1995.

Neoism is a parodistic-ism.

Definitions of Neoism and Neoist activity are currently disputed.

often vaguely-referred to or even opposed Neoism and thereby perpetuated its myth.

Neoism quickly spread to other places in America, Europe and Australia and involved up to two dozens of Neoists.

Until the late 1980s and before the mass availability of the Internet, the mail art network continued to be used as the main communication and propaganda channel for Neoism.

Borrowing from Thomas Pynchon, Neoism could be more suitably called an " anarchist miracle " of an international network of highly eccentric persons collaborating, often with extremist intensity, under the one shared identity of Monty Cantsin and Neoism.

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The term " aesthetics " was appropriated and coined with new meaning in the German form Æsthetik ( modern spelling Ästhetik ) by Alexander Baumgarten in 1735.

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