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OK. Everything's a meme or a game lately, for which I apologize. Back to your regularly scheduled steaming pile of monkey crap soon.

Here's the latest game I'd like to play, as kipped from

lysana:

Go browse through my list of interests and pick one that either 1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing, or 2) you know something about but can't fathom why yours truly would be interested in it, and request an explanation.

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The TAZ is a concept stolen from the writings of Hakim Bey (http://www.hermetic.com/bey/), who is a bit difficult to explain in and of himself. So I'll stick to the TAZ. A TAZ is a place and time in which either the normal rules of society do not apply for some external reason, or the mass of assembled people has decided that the normal rules do not apply to them, and they are of a substantial enough number to keep the enforcers of the normal rules of society from being able to act on them. In a nutshell, a TAZ is a floating island of anarchy which dissipates at the end of whatever event created it. On the one hand, they may be revels - Mardi Gras, Santarchy, a well-done flaunt. On the other, they may be riots. They may exist in public space or private - a Charlesworth party may be a fair example of a TAZ-type private event.
Establishing a TAZ may be seen as an act of terrorism. Even a non-violent action of this sort is potentially damaging to the social order, because it illustrates other options outside of the social order.
I am, of course, infinitely more interested in non-violent actions than in violent ones.