Manual for MANIFEST
Introduction:
Manifest works with art as a part of everyday life.
See ART AND REALITY.
Construction:
Manifest is a platform for persons who wants to work together, share places to live, economy, and means of production.
Manifest is based both in Toronto, Canada
Production / distribution:
Manifest has its own means of production and distribution.
Manuals for Manifest things are published at www.manifestcollective.weebly.com and in the Manifest periodical. Furthermore, Manifest things are implemented in various situations around the world, initiated by Manifest or in collaboration with different persons and institutions.
Economy:
Manifest is non-commercial. Manifest is financed primarily by memberships, space rental, and sharing.
Politics:
Manifest suggests respecting conditions for description: logical relations and facts, as a basis for politics.
Ideologies, religions, subjective opinions, social conventions, and habitual conceptions do not necessarily respect conditions for description. An example of a decisive logical relation is the logical relation between persons and their rights. Persons should be treated as persons and therefore as having rights. If we deny this assertion it goes wrong: here we have a person, but this person should not be treated as a person, or: here is a person, who should be treated as a person, but not as having rights. Therefore we can only talk about persons in a way that makes sense if we know that persons have rights. An example of a decisive fact is that concentrations of power characterize our society. Concentrations of power do not necessarily respect person's rights.
Concentrations of power force persons to concentrate on participating in competition and power games, in order to create a social position for themselves. Concurrently with the concentrations of power dominating our conscious mind and being decisive to our situations, the significance of our fellow humans diminishes. And our own significance becomes the significance we have for concentrations of power, the growth of concentrations of power, and the conflicts of concentrations of power. It is decisive that persons try to find ways of existing with as small concentrations of power as possible.