The reverse side develops the Digger idea of the “nova” as a freely forming constellation of people, offered as the living alternative to the closed, seniorized, hierarchical systems condemned on the front. Drawing on the example of the free food “novas” already functioning since September 1966, the sheet imagines social life as fluid, pulsating, decentralized, and open to all, in place of the deadening slots, cubicles, images, and authority roles imposed by the Establishment. Its attack extends from class identities and money to language itself, calling for communities to create their own rapidly changing forms of speech, gesture, and nonverbal communication outside the control of mass media and mass syntax. In this vision, the nova becomes both a social form and a way of being: nomadic, improvisatory, anti-hierarchical, and rooted in the continual remaking of free communal life. |