Whereas in previous epochs the conduct of International
organisations necessitated long and arduous journeys, contemporary
society has not only rendered such behaviour unnecessary, but
positively demands its supercession. In an era when telematics has
industrialised the imagination, our resources and intellegence must
move beyond the mental and whizzical constraints imposed by the toy
technology of info-tech capitalism.
Our congress will be a virtual congress, but not however mediated
by electrickery. We assert that all congresses have always been
virtual, 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 thence to the broad layers of humanity.
Instead of mechanising this process, we wish to implode it. Our
First Congress will also be an Imaginist Congress.
Congress is about creating the myth of unity, but our First
Congress will, contrariwise, unify the myth creation process. The
Congress will only exist at the level of myth, thereby excising
political chicanery. Particpants will not so much be inscribing
their ideas on the palimpsest of an historic event, but will have
to subject themselves to the much harsher discipline of projecting
their conceptions onto the tabla rasa of the non-existent.
In this process, we make no restrictions on the use of info-tech.
It is sufficient to assert, however, that the most important work
will take place away from such machinery. At a time when computers
are poised as a means of industrialising the imagination, and
present themselves as the open-sesame to a world of virtual
reality, we assert that all virtaul reality is the consequence of
the social interaction of human consciousness.