The Subversive Intellectual Society is a left-wing activist group, secret society, art collective, and drinking club. The SIS claims to have been established in 1954, but skeptics have found no evidence of the group's existence before the mid-1980s.

Most observers agree that the Society was founded at a high school in Miami, by a group of hyperintelligent misfits and pranksters. The SIS continues to maintain that its world headquarters are located in a hidden chamber beneath the school, but authorities have never found any evidence of this.

The SIS adheres to no one ideology; instead, it is a kind of Unitarian Church of Paranoia. This ecumenical attitude means that its members embrace a wide variety of "alternative" worldviews. (It also makes things very difficult when it's time to order a pizza.)

SIS members are currently scattered across the globe, working inside and outside government, media, business, and other institutions. But they are united by their ongoing mission to subvert the System, mock the follies of Wealth and Power, and shine a merciless light upon the Shadow Government.

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SubIntSoc, the SIS' online network, was founded in 1987, as an unauthorized bulletin board and data exchange on the ARPAnet system. Since then, the Society has -- with occasional interruptions -- maintained a presence inside the world's advanced computer networks.

This has allowed the SIS to intercept and publicize top secret data, and to covertly influence the course of world events. It has also given the group a glimpse of the Attorney General's private pornography collection.

Fall 2002 saw the debut of The Situation Room weblog, a vehicle for more serious commentary on current events. Since that time, the blog has become the primary focus of the site.

Previously featured items on SubIntSoc include an exposé of the truth behind the George W. Bush pretzel incident, a new system of enhanced terror alert colors, and the ever-popular Create Your Own Terror Warning game.

NOTE: The chief weapons of the SIS are disinformation and satire. Some or all of the content featured on this website may be counter-factual, inoperative, humorous, or
all of the above. SubIntSoc has many omissions, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate.

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Today, SIS members -- many known to the public only by their aliases -- are working
around the world to promote their unique brand of subversive intellectualism. Key
cell leaders are stationed in Florida, New York, Japan, and elsewhere.

SubIntSoc is maintained and edited by two longtime SIS operatives:

Maximus Clarke is a web developer, filmmaker and writer currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He is co-editor and designer of SubIntSoc. He is also a close associate of electropop musician Maxx Klaxon, but denies rumors that he and Klaxon are in fact one and the same.

Thomas Colereux is the nom de guerre of a computer consultant, military re-enactor and writer, who resides near St. Petersburg, Florida. He is SubIntSoc's co-editor and system administrator. He has never been seen in the same room as political revolutionary W. Gauthier Marx, but insists that this proves nothing.

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The files linked below contain all publicly released information on leading members
and known affiliates of the SIS.

> Thomas Colereux Raised by a feral pack of scientists in southern France, he was denied contact with normal society until nearly an adult...

> A.K.W. Geheimbundler Born during the Nixon administration on an American military base, he grew up in the far western suburbs of Miami...

> Boudicca Goldman As a child, she was emotionally and physically scarred by 16-hour days spent sculpting topiaries and "harvesting" the tailfeathers of peacocks...

> Maxx Klaxon He grew up in the strict confines of a Technosophist collective, then escaped to Miami as a teenager and joined the SIS...

> W. Gauthier Marx Raised in the American left-wing underground of the 1970s, his actual birth name is a matter of dispute to this day...