As part of our re-instituted NSAID word program, this introductory demonstration of the cut-up method of writing/divination/propaganda sieve/perspective-splitter at the heart of NSAID also serves as a general set of disclaimers, explanations, and political anti-Dixie-whistling (for people) that well-apply to our efforts going forward.
From Wikipedia:
The cut-up technique ... is an aleatory narrative technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to the Dadaists of the 1920s, but it was developed and popularized in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially by writer William Burroughs...
[artist Brion] Gysin introduced Burroughs to the technique at the Beat Hotel. The pair later applied the technique to printed media and audio recordings in an effort to decode the material's implicit content, hypothesizing that such a technique could be used to discover the true meaning of a given text. Burroughs also suggested cut-ups may be effective as a form of divination saying, "When you cut into the present the future leaks out."
Image Attributions (Fair Use for Educational Purposes):
Bull Connor graphic (Civil Rights Museum Memphis, TN)
Bull Connor Letters (Birmingham Public Library Archive)
Firehose (Michael Ochs, Birmingham Public Library)
Guardsman (unattributed, Birmingham Public Library)
Imprisoned Children (AP)
Phillips, Banks HS Protest (Jones, Birmimgham News Archives via AL.com)
Ruby Bridges (AP)
Schoolhouse Door (via WBHM)
United Methodist 50th (Bridwell Library Collections)
US Steel Convicts Bham (Bham Public Library via BhamWatch)
US Steel Ensley (Library of Congress)
Little House Cover (Scholastic)
Mike Johnson speech (CNN)
Project 2025 footage (CNN Newsroom)
"Council of Gods" (PubDom; Herman Groeberr)
Airplane! (National Film Registry)
Bayer Logo (PubDom Wikipedia)
Cancer study (via PubMed)
Carl Duisberg (PubDom, Nicola Perscheid)
IG Farben 2007 (Wikipedia CC)
IG Farben A-B Aerial (PubDom; SAAF US National Archives)
IG Farben A Ext (Bundescarchiv Bild via Wikipedia CC)
IG Farben A HH (Public Domain)
IG Farben Defendants (PubDom via MARKELLOS)
Parathion chemical (Wikipedia)
Paration (Medico Contesta)
Paris Opera House (via History.com)
Zyklon B (Michael Hanke for KL A-B via Wikipedia CC)