The EGOTERRORISM liner book defines ERRORISM through a list of damaged or exposed forms: scratched lens, warped canvas, hissing tape, broken line, visible boom, flicker, glitch, crooked stitch, misprint and dissonance. It ends with the instruction BE WRONG.
Error as evidence of life
The immediate context is a record that keeps material professional production normally removes: false starts, rough joins, unresolved sections, clicks and environmental interruption. Error thereby becomes “proof of life” — evidence that a work passed through bodies, rooms, machines and contingencies rather than appearing frictionlessly.
Against seamlessness
ERRORISM does not amount to a rule that polish is bad. Its target is the assumption that value requires concealment of process. A finished surface can exist, but the scar, seam, bad splice or wrong turn is allowed to carry information.
Later recurrence
The word and its logic continue into later writing, including works concerned with prepared performance, documentary instability and corrupted media. The concept also sits close to Corruption Linguistics: both treat deformation as a generator of meaning rather than only a loss of fidelity.