12/31/2009
Ezra Pound's CANTO 66 - Hyperlinked.
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Canto LXVI Hyperlinked
Throughout the Tale of the Tribe class hosted by the maybelogic Academy and led by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, the group focused on two major texts: The Cantos of Ezra Pound and "Finnegans Wake" of James Joyce.
During the class I would copy/paste images and hyperlinks to highlight fragments from these two texts, this process gave me the general impression that the communications within FW and Pound's Cantos were compressed and enfolded, CONDENSED, enfolded like an MP3 data-file is enfolded in some sense. I soon discovered that with sufficient attention and magnification utilizing various internet-tools provided FREE at the World Wide Web a much richer and wholesome technicoloured image emerged.
My advice to the brave independent scholar and revolutionary poet tackling arguably two of the most difficult and iconoclastic texts of the 20th century is, first check your posture and breathing and remember your critical water consumption, next begin meditation upon the immediate relationship between the individual and the state. Locating yourself in space/time, geographically, genetically and temporally will ease the initial shock from this meditation. The internet has many FREE tools to help facilitate this process. Use them wisely. Find out for yourself using your own nervous system where and when you are and meditate upon the distinctions between your internal states of mind and the external states mediated by governments, rule of law etc. What distinguishes them from one another?
"By internal disarmament I mean ridding ourselves of all the negative emotions that result in violence. External disarmament will also have to be done gradually, step by step. We must first work on the total abolishment of nuclear weapons and gradually work up to total demilitarisation throughout the world. - Dali Lama, Millenium Message.
As your non-simultaneously interacting nervous-system remains approximately the most accurate and reliable research instrument immediately available to make approx. observations, aim them well and USE the force, use them again and again paying close attention to SYNCHRONICITY and DEJA VU when it manifests. Keep notes. When you set-sail with J.J, EZ and RAW. Keep notes. Start writing if you have not already. If you can enter into these word worlds with an open, cheerful, playful sensibility and remain undaunted by strange KNU languages and KNU-oriented representations you may find personally verifiable nodal-CLUSTERS of meaning. Today nearly a year later i'm thinking about what this means to me reality tunnel systems and how i'm going to communicate them to others?
The personal synchronistic effects i have experienced during and after the official ending of the TOTT class have become further evidence, and relative-proof that there is another kind of mind at work in the universe, different to the predictable and causal ONE i was familiar with - the ONE left over from the dark ages of my Newtonian youth. One may distill the concept of Mindedness in nature as being equally opposite to the idea of mechanical causality running like a chem-trail through many of RAW's Essays, books and teaching tools. Finnegans Wake and The Cantos seem to be minded, that is to say they exhibit mind-like phenomena, sort of non-local information transfer through time/space. The resulting weird effects seem incomprehensible when rationalized by conventional two-valued: cause and effect logical deductions. The synchronistic phenomena sometimes have the qualities of a kind of Magic, sometimes moderate telenoia and sometimes ecstasy depending upon your immediate state of mind. Morpho-genetic theory, as described by Rupert Sheldrake has sufficient space/time IMHO for an adequate scientific proposition capable of propagating nonlocal signals, and therefore to begin constructing better interfacing maps within the scientific community at large and the public. Magikal theories and other mystical schools and traditions have also provided a sufficient foundation for this kind of non-local information transfer and occult interfacing with the sentience of nature. RAW has written extensively upon these Arcane subjects and i recommend consulting his wonderful mixture of science and mysticism for a complete world view of these vast areas human experience. My own presentation here is a collection of personal observations and experiences expressed through deep contemplation upon just three meaningful synchronistic encounters [word/poem/messages] within Pound's Cantos and one [word/poem/message] from the Joyce's Wake. In this particular introduction i'll focus upon Ezra Pound's Canto LXVI. Details of more of my encounters with Joycean synchronicity can be found HERE But what does IT ALL mean?
In August of 2005 i discovered the name of the town where your present author lives; (Stourbridge) on page 184. As has been the case with many British derived word/names there is also a sister/brother town called Sturbridge in Massachusetts, New England, United States of America. It was First settled in 1729 and officially incorporated in 1738 E.V. Today the Rotary Clubs of Stourbridge and Sturbridge are twinned and regularly visit each other. Here is the Joycean cluster around Stourbridge:
"Of course our low hero was a self valeter by choice of need so
up he got up whatever is meant by a stourbridge clay
kitchenette and lithargogalenu fowlhouse for the sake of akes (the
umpple does not fall very far from the dumpertree)"
- Finnegans Wake, part 1, Episode 6. Page 184
A Lithargogalenu maybe derived from the greek lithargyros: a monoxide of lead ore, dross left after smelting lead. What on earth does this mean to me? and to others? Furthermore, genealogically i have discovered that there are various conjunctions of the present authors own surname "Pratt", in the encyclopedic text of FW although it appears compounded within other word/poems. I soon began to sit up, wipe my red-oogles and play more attention to cynchronistic events. After all, is not some fun and excitement about reading litharicher involved with imagining yourself as the protagonist-anntagonist?
A slightly less significant synchronicity but well worth mentioning is that my Christian name is Steven and my middle name James. Made slightly more meaningful within the context of RAW's 1988 book, and TOTT textbook: COINCIDANCE A head test. where he writes on page 5:
"When Joyce feared that he might die without finishing "Finnegans Wake", he selected James Stephens to complete it, not on any literary grounds per se, but because Stephens had been born on the same day as Joyce (2 february 1882) and in the same city (Dublin) - and also because Stephens has the same first name as Joyce (James) and had a last name which differed by only one letter from the first name of Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's self-caricature in A Portrait of the Artist as a young man and Ulysses" - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/wilsonra/codance.htm
Seventeen days ago, (Artemis 4, 84 p.s.U) while reading the Cantos for a third time i stumbled across Stourbridge in Canto LXVI! What the bloody hell is going on - i thought to meself. What does IT ALL mean? These texts really do seem to behave like minded oracles of some sort? (shut up steven, a voice says, its just meaningless coincidence you silly stouwner.)
"and i went in a post chaise
Woburn Farm, Stowe, Stratford
Stourbridge, Woodstock, High Wycombe and back to
Grosvenor Sq" - Canto LXVI, line 30, Page 380.
After some Googling through Bogipedia and traditional book worming, i discovered the diaries of John Adams and that he once visited England in 1886. He must have stopped off in Stourbridge at some point? maybe to pick up some groceries? I thought it strange that i had not heard word of this visit by the 2nd American president to Stourbridge in my 26 years of living here? It appears from his diaries that JA visited Stratford, Birmingham and Worcestershire also while on cultural exchange trips. The historical fact that John Adams: 2nd president of the United States of America, was impressed enough to write beautiful verse about Stourbridge interests me deeply as a lover of poetry and writing, and this geographical seal provides a kind of space/time portal of discovery for those who wish to look, and a centralized pivot for this essay: locating the epic poem of EZ into both my internal and external experience while asking the question what does IT ALL mean? Has anybody else noticed the changes in the wind recently? MIFOS
Another synchronicity that struck me within Pound's Canto LXVI, is the inclusion of the name/label "Dudley", which just so happily happens to be the name of the Metropolitan Borough in which i presently reside, and that poetically swallowed up Stourbridge into its belly back in 1974 (54 p.s.U). Before this date Stourbridge was incorporated into the ancient parish of Oldswinford. DUDLEY Metropolitan Borough is presently the 2nd most populated "Town" in the United Kingdom and still mushrooming (2006). After research into this i discovered that Pound was probably referring to William Wade Dudley (1842-1909); a soldier in the American civil war, lawyer, government official, Republican campaigner and suspected "crooked" electioneer. Damn, i thought he meant the brute with the castles and the land named after him. However upon further meditation over time here in Dudley Metropolitan Borough, reading the papers and observing the political landscape, it occurred to me in an epiphany! that W.W Dudley shares some characteristic traits with the local lineage of historical "Dudley's" in England: a beautiful garden. Another name for the compounded regions around Dudley used more colloquially is The Black Country, so named according to Occult folk-lore because of the huwdge phalanx of toxic pollutants and super-toxicating by-product waste MATERIAL from our 18-20th century industrialization revolution. What i interpret through the gloss of a gloss of the Cantos to be the experimental exploitation of what is naturally abundant in nature such as water, gas, oil, vegetation and minerals such as coke - (the carbonaceous residue of low-sulfur bituminous coal, not coca-cola for Christ's sake).
" this 41st section repeals MAGNA
CHARTA the 19th chapter
as follows the words: NO FREEMAN...to... by his peers
and the law of the land
Whereon said Lord Coke, speaking of Empson and Dudley,
the end of these two oppressors
shd/ deter others from continuing the like
- Canto LXVI, Page 384
Lord Coke (1552-1634), the colonial entrepreneur and jurist appears in Pound's "Tale of the tribe" as a heroic entity, a whispering ghost that provides a clear exhibit of a mind in history that Pound can anchor his pirate-shipoem to. Ply over ply. The fact that the word "coke" and the word "Dudley" are seperated by only 4 words in Canto LXVI has dual meanings for my own Blacked Country perception of the Cantos in 2006. (if you ask me there seems to be a conservative neo-liberal labour virus sucking up our common welfare and distributing it to private interests around these shires). And so i have Lord Coke in one sense within my internal "Cantos" matrix, and then, secondly i have the carbonaceous fuel called coke within my immediate external Cantos matrix. But what in the Dickens does this mean and what is to be done?
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving". - Lao Zi
Right at the end of Canto LXVI yet another word/poem jumped out at me like Smeagol from behind my geographically self-centered tree of knowledge. Shires appears on the last but one line of the poem as if making sure i'm a well hooked fly. The fossilized poem "shires" is often used to identify many rural areas in England, Australia and America i.e Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire etc. Readers of J.R.R Tolkien, will be familiar with the Shires and their more traditional context within his imaginative tales. From Tolkien's fantastical glossing and recent cinematic distribution around the whole planet - we can globally perceive how the industrial revolution and industrial expansion programers and "city-planners" have affected the traditional, pre-industrialized rural dwellings of earth. A scenic testament to the country shires once blooming everyware with their wealth of natural abundance. For me LOTR became a great poem animated into moving pictures that had a geographical significance to some of my own sensations within the shires. Pound's Cantos also perceive and administer this relationship between mankind and Nature, but in a different way, albeit with a more metaphysical-like, imagist-like, ideogram-like technique of representation. By brilliantly harpooning various fragments from many different cultures, often rare and bloody notes collected from the ruble around him, Pound brews up a swirling cloud of exhibits that process and enact the pushing and pulling literary vortex created from turning polarities such as mankind and nature, villain and hero, individual and State, poetry and history, individual anarchism and group totalitarianism? and so on and so fourth.
Shire can mean province, district, or region, yet i detect some added spice, maybe from some pipe-smoking Hobbit; that evokes pastoral valleys of snot velvet, vegetation bursting like a billion fountains of light, looking glass landscapes, furry rivers etc. maybe together with a little more imagination, we can evoke GAIA herself - the great Earth mother? Remember that the pitching of two concepts against each other such as Self/state, mankind/nature is limited by being constricted into a two-valued logic sty. Joyce and Pound are both masters of casting thousands of shades and subtle tones in their epic poetry that shatter any two valued conclusions of certainty and introduce 3, 4 and more logic systems of value vortexts that twist and turn like our DNA structures, reflecting and interacting with the reader like astrological forces, changing as cycles unwind cosmically aligned somehow MIFOS? Girodano Bruno provided much original thinking about this. The "hologramic" process appears wonderfully well detonated within Dr. Wilson's book: "Coincidance. A head test." He sometimes calls this phenomena "Holographic prose" but it often escapes identification itself because of ubiquitous presence. Perhaps similar to the ubiquitous presence of consciousness, that fullness of the woid, the optimism within dark matter? Wilson, very much like Joyce and Pound, and often paying exquisite tribute to them explicitly, has incorporated vast amounts of illuminated historical details using his own methodological historicism - his holognomic method and writing to the Universe.
"By another clause (in our Charter)
that the great and general court or assembly
shd/ have power
to erect judicatories courts of record
and other courts
to determine pleas processes plaints actions etc
whereby a law (2 William III) have established etc
and in Edward IV this Beauchamps commission
was, for the uncertainty, VOID
By letters patent and under great seal
in all shires, counties palatine and in Wales
and any other dominions
- Canto LXVI, line?, Page 386.
The following HYPERTEXT exhibit of Canto LXVI is presented to inspire and spark others to discover for themselves the integrated relationships in their local and non-local environments. Also, as i have been turned on to the poetry of Ezra Pound and James Joyce in particular, through studying at TOTT i wish to pass on this advise for better processing in the 21st century. At the same time the writing process i experienced through this essay facilitates my own relative truth-seeking and my own ploughing for verifiable evidence of non-local transfer of meaningful information operating backwards and forwards throughout time-space. Blueprints for my own time-machine. MIFOS?
Could not let us bring their sugar to Europe
wd/ lessen the number of french and of Spanish
seamen
Generally rode twice a day till made master
of this curiopus forest (Bois de Boulogne)
view of Issy and castle of Meudon
game is not very plentiful. Dined at Amiens
put up at Abbeville. Dover view. Mr Johnson
Gt Tower hill who informs me
that a vessel with one thousand hogshead of tobacco
is passed by the Channel from Congress
to Messrs Willinicks 27 Oct '83
Hague June 22, '84
So there is no drop not American in me
Aye we have noticed that said the Ambassador
Sends to Morocco no marine stores
sends 'em glaces and other things of rich value
Said Lord Carmarthen wd/ present me
but that i shd/ do business with Mr Pitt very often
Posts not surrendered
are Preq'isle, Sandusky etc
Detroit Michilimakinac
St JosephSt Mary's
| daughter married less prudently
and they were thinking of sending her to America
Mr Hamilton to the Queen at the drawing room
and i went in a post chaise
Woburn Farm,Stowe, Stratford
Stourbridge, Woodstock, High Wycombe and back to
Grosvenor Sq
A national debt of
274 million stg
accumulated by jobs contracts salaries pensions in
the course of a century
might easily produce all this magnificence
Pope's pavilion and Thompson's seat made the excursion
Shenstone's the most rural of all
19th, Wednesday, anniversary of the battle of Lexington
and of my reception in Holland
which latter is considered of no importance
to view the seat of the banker child
three houses, in fact, round and square
blowing roses, ripe strawberries plums cherries etc
deer sheep wood doves guinea-hens peacocks etc
Dr Grey speaks very lightly of Buffon
Mr H. prefers the architecture of this house because it
reminds him of Palladio
windows with mahogany columns
three are two stoves but at neither of them
could a student be comfortable in cold weather
July 18th, yesterday, moved all the grass to Stony Hill field
this day my new barn was raised
their songs never more various than this morning
Corn by two sorts of worm
Hessian fly menaces wheat
Where T. has been trimming red cedars
Otis full of election: Henry, Jefferson, Burr
T. cutting trees and leaves of white oaks
To barely and black grass at the beach
said one thing wd/ make Rhode Islandunanimous
--meaning funding--
They wanted Hamilton for vice president
I said nothing.
WHERETOWARD THE ARGUMENTS HAD BEEN
as renouncing the transactions of Runing Meade
Prince of Orange, King William by the people
that their rights be inviolable
which drove out James Second...IS still active.
Nothing less than this seems to have been meditated for us
by somebody or other in Britain
reprinted by Thos. Hollis
OB PECUNIAE SCARSITATEM
this act, the stamp act, wd/ drain cash out of the country
and is, further, UNconstitutional
yr/ humanity counterfeit
yr/ liberty cankered with simulation
Earl Clarendon to Bill Pym in the Baastun Gazette
Jan 17th 1 7 6 8
Danegold emptied the land of coin
what are powers of these new admiralty courts in America
per pares et legem terrae
is there any grand jury to bring an indictment
to find presentments
IS this trial per legem terrae
or by Institutes Digests Roman?
Become attentive to their liberties
counties, towns, private clubs and sodalities
most accurate judgement
about the real constitution
which is not of wind and weather
what is said there
is rather a character
than a true
definition. It is a just observation.
Jury answers questions of fact
thus regarding the subject...
pompous rituals theatrical ceremonies
so successfully used to
delude to terrify men out of virtue and liberty
Elizabeth tried, James First put out Goodwin
and the commons reversed it
(London Chronicle)
By this course, said one member, free election is taken away
common rights our ancestors have left us
By this course, said another, the Chancellor
could call a parliament of only such as he please
After repeal of American Stamp Act
we have mortification to see one act of Parliament after
money collecting from us continually without our consent
by an authority
in the constitution of which we have no share
and see the little coin that remained among us
transmitted to distance
with no hope of return
RESOLUTION to maintain duty and loyalty to our sovreign
and to Parliament as legislative in all cases of necessity
to preserve the Empire as a whole
17 June, 1768
Instructions to Braintree'srepresentatives
We mean by 6th Anne chap. xxxvii section 9
IT IS ENACTED
no mariner
be retained on any privateer ship or vessel
in any part of America... be impressed on any ship of
Her Majesty's any time after St Valentine's day 1707
on pain of L 20. per man
Small field pieces happened, said Governor Hutchinson,
to point at the door of the Court House [Pg. 383]
To the Hnbl James Otis and Thos Cushing Esquires
Mr Sam Adams and John Hancock Esquire
;;;;......demands tr
fortitude virtue and wisdom
to remove anything that may appear to awe or intimidate
late attack flagrant and formal
on the constitution itself
and the immunities of our charters
Unnecessary to repeat our known sentiments on the revenue
this 41st section repeals MAGNA
CHARTA the 19th chapter
as follows the words: NO FREEMAN...to... by his peers
Whereon said Lord Coke, speaking of Empson and Dudley,
the end of these two oppressors
shd/ deter others from continuing the like
and they bring not in the absolute and partial trials by direction
...by every legal measure, sirs, we recommend you...
Natural tendency of the legal profession to side with authority
freeholders and other inhabitants (Cambridge 21st December. '72
constitutional
means the redress...natural rights...charter right
money extorted from us, appropriated to the augmentation of
burdens upon us
independent of grants of our commons.
attest
Andrew Boardman town clerk
Judges salaries shd/ be independent both of the king
great danger if commission hang upon either
a civil commission gives no new powers
tyranny in them to assume it
common lay of England, BIRTHRIGHT of every man here
'not look on my self as in a state of nature
and is pity that other man shd/'
It is the wish of almost all good men, replied Adams
that what Brattle states were good law.
But from Edward First's time to the present letters patent
are otherwise worded
sic: beneplacitu nostro
Ad regis nutum duratura
says Fortescue
chancellor
will it be shown that by ' judges ' Genl Brattle
means barons of Exchequer
custos rotolorum and clerk of the peace
were created by statue not erected by common law
Sir Edward Coke, who being in King's displeasure,
was removed from his place by writ of the king
reciting that whereas etc
...appointed to desist from...
timid jurors and judges who held during pleasure
never failed to second the views of the Crown
he, James Second, was obliged before he brought Hales' case
to displace 4 of his judges
By concerts between King james and Sir Edward...
his coachman was employed to bring action...
Jones had the integrity to tell the king to his face
that he might make 12 judges but wd/ scarce find 12 lawyers
of his opinion.
'wishing genl Brattle success in his researches '
By another clause (in our Charter)
that the great and general court or assembly
shd/ have power
to erect judicatories courts of record
and other courts
to determine please processes plaints actions etc
whereby a law (2 William III) have established etc
and in Edward IV this Beauchamps commission
was, for the uncertainty, VOID
By letters patent and under great seal
in all shires, counties palatine and in Wales
and any other dominions
To conclude, I wish to highlight (see above) the positive attributes of historical revisionism as a tool through which poetry becomes a portal for Trippy Cultural Group Archeology. I have found that History observed through the lens of picture/poems, ideograms and song has a structural bond with which to correspond processes in biological nature with rhetorical processes within history. This leads to enacting singing processes, dancing processes, shouting processes - The tale of the tribe. Start writing your own and make it new.
(DJ fly agaric 23)
Steven James Pratt
Wordsley, United Kingdom
12/07/2009
SONNY BOB HYPERSHARING LANGUAGE VS. THE EQUATION.
RAW Sharing:
Robert Anton Wilson...
Top of my list of great heroes,
And he shared a wiccan-warrior vision of internet as a
Global revolution,
F-e-e-d-b-a-c-k
Characters and equations
A tale of the tribe, new conversation
Language vs. The Equation.And he left us 36' books and 1000’s of articles
Maps and metaphor's for future circuits
Helping guide any thinking individual
Compelled to continue processing
The tale of the Tribe, maybelogic & RAW’s
Special language equations:
alphabet/ideogram
Joyce/Pound
Shannon/Mcluhan
TV/Internet.
A RAW internetwork of his quality critters,
Epic and Recyclopedic field of influence,
All-at-once when
Processed with the rhythm,
Surprise
LSD coated page-side bombs explode
Turning the flatted page into
hyperspace,
Radiating the readers consciousness
The page and – off – the page
into pypa-space.
Sharing Pound’s ‘Ideogramic method’
Sharing Joyce’s ‘Hologramic Prose & Epiphany & Finnegans Wake'
Sharing Bucky’s ‘Synergetics and Planetary design-science’
Sharing Shannon’s ‘Information Entropy and BITS’
Sharing Nietzsche’s ‘Eternal Return and influence upon Existentialism’
Sharing McLuhan’s ‘Global Village & The medium is the messsage'
Sharing Bruno’s ‘Pantheism and Decentralized Multiverse’
Sharing Vico’s ‘New Science & Ricorso’
Sharing Orson’s ‘Cinematic Methods’
Sharing Fenollosa’s ‘Chinese Written Character Poetry’
Sharing Yeats’s ‘Gyres, Symbolism & humanitarianism’
Sharing Gesell’s ‘Natural Economic Order'
Sharing Popper’s ‘Open Society'
Sharing Remy De Gournmont’s ‘Dissosociation of Ideas’
Sharing von Neumann’s ‘Theory of Games and Economic Behavior’
Sharing Leary’s ‘Eight Dimensional model of consciousness'
Sharing Reich’s ‘Bioenergetic Force’
Sharing Crowley’s ‘System of practical Magick’
Sharing Korzybski’s ‘General Semantics & English-prime’
Sharing Alfred Jarry’s ‘pataphysique’
RAW transfers a torrent of open ideas
Wrapped up in cutting satire, oozing Hilaritas
Sharing ideas that have shaped the 21st century,
The information radiates from his gestalt-texts
Although he is not here
to add further clarity & feedback
What he left still has the revolutionary potential -
A completed circuit of a perfected (life-work)
A Tale of the tribe, tied up with a Mobius
Spider-silk bow-tie.
Email to the Multiverse of Tweets
& Hyperverse Blogs of Great Old Hags &
Books by Pyrateas with
Links shared...
--Steve Fly.
12/02/2009
SHARE THIS COURSE & THEN SHARE THIS BOOK
Share This Course.
Hi folks, I’m currently collaborating with a small but growing group of web critters led by Mark Pesce. We are a unique decentralized community which will lead--good willing--to the manifestation of a book, scheduled for completion in 2010, based around the emerging hyperintelligence and 'hyperpeople' as defined by Mark Pesce and approximated as sharing culture and the art of sharing.
As sharing is the core of – share this course & share this book – the group have recently alerted me to a change in direction to posting at the blog, that has encouraged me to start sharing some of our work so far and spread the new sharing 'share this course' meme, now, in early December 2009. (and now in March 2010)
Inspired by a cooking analogy with the group-course blog I feel like a particular individual ingredient scattered around the kitchen area or up on a shelf somewhere waiting... to be grated a little, boiled, skinned, fried, charbroiled, roasted, toasted and finally with a bit of luck served-up with a healthy spread of exotic delicacies and shared wisdom.
I’ve been sharing my vision of a new investigation into the historical figures that I think have influenced sharing and the technology of sharing that produced great contributions to all-around-the-world-Humanity, and as a nod to the MLA and the smart tribe of critters that createdits own collective hyper-intelligence, if you like.
I choose to focus on the twelve individuals introduced to us by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, as the characters who helped shape the - decentralized sharing age -, or simply the 21st century. We can learn from the past efforts to share, and from them create a new historical framework of sharing, one reaching 420 years back to Giordano Bruno and pulling us right up to Marshall McLuhan.
These ideas are pretty complex ideas and come from complex individuals of explicit genius, difficult to approach and shrouded in mystery, this maybe especially true to somebody who has relatively little experience in academic circles, like myself, where much of the solid foundations of this new historical - hyperintelligent tribe – lie, please don't mistake my intellectual pursuits of 'The Tale of the Tribe' as representative of what I think - Share this book - is about. I view this angle of approach concerned with - share this course... the creation of hyperintelligence, unbounded and access-able and sharable by anyone who can access the WWW.
With the power of Internet and the rise of hypersharing culture (hyperdistribution, hyperconnectivity, hyperbolic Geometry) and with the aid of new tools, many minds can congregate together and work quickly, efficiently and humanely, and my ego-drive hope is that others may soon join us in this collective adventure of sharing - sharing - and maybe a few critters will find enough time to follow my historical investigation into the people and ideas that helped to shape intelligent internet and create another alternative guide to sharing - free as the air you breath, and for all-around-the-world-humanity, or as close to the model correlated by Dr. Wilson, a life-long intellectual pursuit but one which I hope will add some spice and sugar to some of the more practical data due to be shared on the course and eventually in the book.
At the blog you'll discover different sharing activity and feedback defining sharing, and you’ll probably find items more to your own fancy, whoever you are. And, if you don’t find anything interesting at the blog then maybe search youtube for Mark Pesce and listen to his hyperflow motion languaging.
Hi folks, I’m currently collaborating with a small but growing group of web critters led by Mark Pesce. We are a unique decentralized community which will lead--good willing--to the manifestation of a book, scheduled for completion in 2010, based around the emerging hyperintelligence and 'hyperpeople' as defined by Mark Pesce and approximated as sharing culture and the art of sharing.
As sharing is the core of – share this course & share this book – the group have recently alerted me to a change in direction to posting at the blog, that has encouraged me to start sharing some of our work so far and spread the new sharing 'share this course' meme, now, in early December 2009. (and now in March 2010)
Inspired by a cooking analogy with the group-course blog I feel like a particular individual ingredient scattered around the kitchen area or up on a shelf somewhere waiting... to be grated a little, boiled, skinned, fried, charbroiled, roasted, toasted and finally with a bit of luck served-up with a healthy spread of exotic delicacies and shared wisdom.
I’ve been sharing my vision of a new investigation into the historical figures that I think have influenced sharing and the technology of sharing that produced great contributions to all-around-the-world-Humanity, and as a nod to the MLA and the smart tribe of critters that createdits own collective hyper-intelligence, if you like.
I choose to focus on the twelve individuals introduced to us by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, as the characters who helped shape the - decentralized sharing age -, or simply the 21st century. We can learn from the past efforts to share, and from them create a new historical framework of sharing, one reaching 420 years back to Giordano Bruno and pulling us right up to Marshall McLuhan.
These ideas are pretty complex ideas and come from complex individuals of explicit genius, difficult to approach and shrouded in mystery, this maybe especially true to somebody who has relatively little experience in academic circles, like myself, where much of the solid foundations of this new historical - hyperintelligent tribe – lie, please don't mistake my intellectual pursuits of 'The Tale of the Tribe' as representative of what I think - Share this book - is about. I view this angle of approach concerned with - share this course... the creation of hyperintelligence, unbounded and access-able and sharable by anyone who can access the WWW.
With the power of Internet and the rise of hypersharing culture (hyperdistribution, hyperconnectivity, hyperbolic Geometry) and with the aid of new tools, many minds can congregate together and work quickly, efficiently and humanely, and my ego-drive hope is that others may soon join us in this collective adventure of sharing - sharing - and maybe a few critters will find enough time to follow my historical investigation into the people and ideas that helped to shape intelligent internet and create another alternative guide to sharing - free as the air you breath, and for all-around-the-world-humanity, or as close to the model correlated by Dr. Wilson, a life-long intellectual pursuit but one which I hope will add some spice and sugar to some of the more practical data due to be shared on the course and eventually in the book.
At the blog you'll discover different sharing activity and feedback defining sharing, and you’ll probably find items more to your own fancy, whoever you are. And, if you don’t find anything interesting at the blog then maybe search youtube for Mark Pesce and listen to his hyperflow motion languaging.
What is a Book? by Mark Pesce.
Mark Pesce on SHARING in 2009
11/30/2009
Share This Tribe.
A post from over at - Share This Course - With Mark Pesce & friends.
I find it hard to describe what I’ve learnt this week, but I’ll share some very broad things’ I started to learn about more deeply just today after reading Mark’s ‘Hyperpeople’. In particular…. “MP3 recording uses a mathematical technique known as Fourier Transforms to break an audio signal into its constituent sound waves. It’s like a chord played on a guitar: you can think of a chord as a set of individual strings being played simultaneously.” This caused me to think of Claude Shannon, and led me, via a quick wiki search to revisit some fascinating info’ at wiki describing his contributions to the ‘digital age, and the technology of sharing?
To my mind, today, I kind of learnt that good poetry’ has a resonance with the Fourier Transform, and music too by way of the sweet chord-analogy made by Mark. I’m not sure I have fully processed and learn’t about Fourier transforms, but I have found a new field of interest I feel worthy of deeper investigation and sharing here as an example. I also learnt a little about Giordano Bruno, Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, James Joyce, McLuhan and Claude Shannon and what they have in common with my own warped interpretation of some parts of ‘Hyperpeople’. Furthermore, I feel that, although Internet may have no historical precedent, certain individuals have a strong resonance with the world wide web. Today I learn’t why Nietzsche and Shannon, in particular, are important historical figures, kick-started by thoughts inspired while reading ‘hyperpeople’ if… we were to fiddle with historical events, contrasted with the current refreshing focus on the present 2009 – scenario-universe.
I shd/ come clean here though, friends, and confess that I’m not an academic, a Phd, or a University student, but I’m probably best classed in the realm of the drop-out I guess. --Fly, Share This Course.
http://www.sharethiscourse.org/
I find it hard to describe what I’ve learnt this week, but I’ll share some very broad things’ I started to learn about more deeply just today after reading Mark’s ‘Hyperpeople’. In particular…. “MP3 recording uses a mathematical technique known as Fourier Transforms to break an audio signal into its constituent sound waves. It’s like a chord played on a guitar: you can think of a chord as a set of individual strings being played simultaneously.” This caused me to think of Claude Shannon, and led me, via a quick wiki search to revisit some fascinating info’ at wiki describing his contributions to the ‘digital age, and the technology of sharing?
To my mind, today, I kind of learnt that good poetry’ has a resonance with the Fourier Transform, and music too by way of the sweet chord-analogy made by Mark. I’m not sure I have fully processed and learn’t about Fourier transforms, but I have found a new field of interest I feel worthy of deeper investigation and sharing here as an example. I also learnt a little about Giordano Bruno, Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, James Joyce, McLuhan and Claude Shannon and what they have in common with my own warped interpretation of some parts of ‘Hyperpeople’. Furthermore, I feel that, although Internet may have no historical precedent, certain individuals have a strong resonance with the world wide web. Today I learn’t why Nietzsche and Shannon, in particular, are important historical figures, kick-started by thoughts inspired while reading ‘hyperpeople’ if… we were to fiddle with historical events, contrasted with the current refreshing focus on the present 2009 – scenario-universe.
I shd/ come clean here though, friends, and confess that I’m not an academic, a Phd, or a University student, but I’m probably best classed in the realm of the drop-out I guess. --Fly, Share This Course.
http://www.sharethiscourse.org/
11/08/2009
A tribal Tale play. By fly.
MPHDJ Plush, and his new friends Percy Yu, and Max produced a new play with words, cutting.
FADE IN.
FADE IN.
Hollywood Studios - Dark. Night: Dr. FRANKENSTEIN says: “These machines will have an input, and an output. The input will be an infinite sequence of binary digits.
CUT TO: John Coltrane saying: “This definition is extended to infinite sequences, as follows...
CUT TO: Film footage of Jesse Owens at Berlin Olympic Games 1936.
NARRATOR: “Think ‘infinitely’ to see the paradox of writing about paradox.
SUBTITLE: To appear in the cosmology of the infinite.
CUT TO: Studio Engineer: “And hence the rate should probably be defined with respect to a machine whose tape is infinite dimensional.
CUT TO: Old man in library reading book. We pan into the book and see the chapter heading: Infinito – De l’infinito, universe et mondi.
CUT TO: Tight close up of map with red, blue and green dots on it:
SUBTITLE: “He had seen as in a glass darkly.
SOUND: A shot rings out. Narrator falls dead in studio.
Camera pans back to Announcer with gun.
CUT TO: Announcer saying: "Musictime & Sporthistory (An introductory fable) to cable."
SUBTITLE on screen: A survey of the music, painting, sculpture, and poetry of the decade as seen by a vorticist.
DISSOLVE TO: Close shot of young female Italian Gymnast at the Games saying: “We imitate this geometry in our art, music, and architecture, and express it in the symmetry of our own bodies.”
SUBTITLE: A discussion of geometry; musictime' and the dissociation of ideas.
Camera Pan around a class room, An old GREY BEARDED SCHOLAR says: “...Ending with a piece of music, this chapter also helps explain that a work of art, architecture, music, or literature should proceed linearly and logically, with harmony, symmetry, proportion, and concision,
NARRATOR: “That was the rule laid out by Aristotle in his poetics.”
CUT TO: The ocean, Aristotle is seen by children on the beach, far-out swimming with a porpoise.
SUBTITLE: Accidental music providently arranged by L’Archet...
NARRATOR: “Garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars, interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us.”
Camera pans around the Apollodelphi theatre, as the band play their decorative instruments and the actors play out the last scenes of Mcgraff’.
CUT TO: Four men sitting back in the eighth row with speech bubbles hanging over their heads full of mathematical equations, musical notation and more.
CUT TO: Man in audience turning to his neighbor and saying: “In that music I thought I heard an earthquake letting loose a primeval life-force that had been dammed up for ages.”
Zeppelin flying over Berlin plays ‘Beethoven’s Opus 109’ on massive speakers.
CUT TO: Obi Wen Kinobe to Luke Skywalker: “Use their ways and their music, keep form of their charts and banners.”
CUT TO: Man behind cell-bars: “T’ao Ch’ien heard the old Dynasty’s music as it might be at the peach-blossom Fountain.”
CUT TO: Photograph of Ira Pod, Giles Chase and Cutler Bates sitting at the Oilympic fountain in the village.
INTERCUT: A Talking turntable character on the telephone saying: “The ear analyzes a sound wave into its component frequencies.
NARRATOR: Question, what is music?
MAN:“The pregnant recurrence of domination notes in the melody and chords in a harmony.”
WOMEN: “The separation of words and music by the print technology was no more decisive than its separation of visual and oral reading.”
CUT TO: close up of a painting - Acrylic on canvas - depicting the musical stave with notes in black and white, with red paint dripping through the scene, swirling toward a download Icon in the bottom right hand corner.
CRIMINAL ARTIST: “You have a music magazine. You have a magazine on economics. Why? Because the advertiser pays for the magazine.
DISSOLVE TO: PLUSH, responding to BBC radio interviewer: “Sound effects and music are essential to any air drama; we are using all the equipment that radio offers. Economically and intelligently. We are smuggling implements of music.”
CUT TO: POV of automobile passneger passing a Billboard on L.A's sunset strip for 'Radio hobbyhorse: All music when you come to think.”
DISSOLVE TO: Still shot of LP cover art saying “Music rots when it gets too far from the dance.
SOUND: Sequence of voices recorded from Tape reel and new acetate disks:
CUT TO: Young musician: “Words were printed with the music?”
CUT TO: On a TV screen we see three Nordic, leotard-clad, full breasted girls swinging exercise clubs decorated with symbols, in union.
RADIO NEWSCASTER: “...and there was a failure to supply music for those entering the Oilympic stadium.”
NARRATOR: “Question, what scale of values, what preferences in music, for example?
Newspaper headline in Rapalltown: “All that Italian florid music.”
MAN ON STAGE: “But let gentle silence wrought with music flow.
CUT TO: Guinness TV add, Einstein flying/falling through a clockwork Universe.
CUT TO: PLUSH asking: “How confident did my dream look on this finite world?
SUBTITLE: “The number of words in such a vocabulary, natural for man, is infinite.
MAN ON STAGE: “Acting in illegal secret, pouring oil on the press, giving nominal loans on inexistent security.
Close-up Photograph of piece of tape, with caption: “Fly-catchers of the moon,
STAGE ACTOR in McGraff: “It is time I wrote my will; I chose upstanding men.”
CUT TO: Max typing the words: “Sonny did not set out to discover prejudices; he did not even set out to criticize our conceptions of space and time.”
CUT TO: Door to door time-machine salesman: “We may question and revise our conception of timespace. Opening new adventures in literature for our time, space machine. Read this...”
NARRATOR: Question, Tell me, who made the world?”
MONTAGE: Vincent Quarantino saying: “The real film-maker is a writer. He or she makes the world.”
INTERCUT to Lisa Simpson on skype: “I think the maker Transforms in Hilbert space.”
CUT TO: Photograph of a Turntable with the slogan: “The technical revolution of our time.”
CUT TO: Inside the Temporal Institute, three scholars discuss a timespace machine, reading the transcripts of voices recorded earlier that afternoon.
BILL LASWELL: “Axioms, provide an overview of the evolving concepts of geometric space and form that have impacted the literary imagination throughout western history. In a sense, for any input situation including past history, E’ merely looks up in a “dictionary” the appropriate response.”
VOICE 3: “That changed endocrine history.”
FLASHBACK: Percy passing Max a photograph of an MRI scan of his brain.
DRUNKEN HISTORICAL ENGINEER: “A period of history of a process. A period of History defined by the prevalence of some particular state of things. Like the Glowball Illumage defined by Mclure.”
NARRATOR (Voiceover): “An event ‘E is representable by a property of the state at time ‘p of a finite automaton with an infinite past, only if E is definite.
CUT TO: Realistic film of a singing Bard riding a comet to earth: “The phenomena of the idea, arise and pass away in time like fleeting dreams.
VOICEOVER of TV ad for an ‘Elvis’ DVD: “He offers a history of philosophy from the beginning to our own time.”
NARRATOR: “But he had not solved the problem of how to include novelistic realism and history in a modern literary work, especially a poem.”
CUT TO: Back blurb of a Novel: “Social and political issues, religion, British History, advertising, and naturally enough the conflict between art and economics.”
CUT TO: Photograph of an Andy Warhol Obama button on the orange jacket of a prison inmate.
CARTMAN from South Park: “The time has also become ripe for a conception of human knowledge, history, and the human condition.”
CUT TO: Man receives fax from his fax-machine reading: ...And they ran into debt to keep up appearance, they were there busy with sciences, poetry, history, dancing.
MAN at the Butchers: “Persecution, says he, all the history of the world is full of it. Perpetuating national hatred among nations. Can I have some chicken wings mate?
CUT TO: Old man in a libarary:“...so pay tribute to the Confucian tenets found in shu jing or the Book of History.”
NARRATOR: “Question, what is history?
James T. Kirk: “All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so called moral order of things.”
CUT TO: Hannibal Lector in Berlin saying: “There is reason in History?”
DISSOLVE TO: Photograph of Newspaper headline reading: 'Economics and national security?
LONG SHOT: Data screen showing wiki page, from inside a Prision cell: “...This stupendous double antithesis seems to me the most significant fact in all history, certain ideas and theories placed the history of civilization in an unusual light...”
CUT TO: Swiss Sports coach shouting: “Rules involve interpretation, and to escape the infinite regress there seems to be no escape from the necessity of considering agreements concluded outside the game.
INTERCUT: Max saying into his phone: “Different meanings for different specialists?
SUBTITLE: “Von Noman’s response was similar to that in his formalization of quantum mechanics: just expand the formal character of the ‘space’ in which the model would reside.
CUT TO: Bard on a hill: “Sing, O you little stars.
SUBTITLE: “Infinite-valued, process orientations.
BARD on hill: “About the stars and moon and sun...
SUBTITLE: “All statements made about them stars are only probable in various degrees.
CUT TO: Studio engineer: “We may think of a Turing machine as having three parts: a control element, a reading and writing head, and an infinite tape.
CUT TO: Percy saying into his phone: “He was trying to write an epic poem.
CUT TO: Man holding Koran and Bible in hand saying: “This book can’t be the whole of history.”
TV SPORTS COMMENTATOR at the 2012 games opening: “Berlingham provided a suitable backdrop for the greatest spectacle ever seen in the history of sport.”
MAN WITH A MEGAPHONE: “Men and their business took the soul’s unchanging look. An epic is a poem including History. Increase their flow, throw flower at histories feet, when will we meet?”
CUT TO: M.I.T Professor: “Well, Santa Monica was a point of reference to those working on Game theory.”
CUT TO: Bankman, the economic superhero shouting: “Merchants will not confess over trading nor speculators. Do they pour national revenue into banks of deposit in seasons of speculation?...
CUT TO: Hadron super-collider firing lottery balls against different currencies and Scientists and economists gathered in the lab, measuring the scatter patterns left by the collisions.
SCIENTIST: “Terminology continues to be traditionally magical, covered in the writings and signs of the past, and with these signs over-painted with new signs in a cyclic nervous chain, interconnected in a bewilderingly complex way.”
SUBTITLE: Clouded silence : Silence that is the infinite of space.
CUT TO: Max saying: “The fourier transform of a function vanishing exponentially.
CUT TO: Studio Engineer: “The term ‘finite’ is used to distinguish these automate from Turing machines, which have an infinite tape, permitting them to have more complicated behavior than these automata.
CUT TO: Film of Rotating figure eight – Mobius strip – made of magnetic tape.
FLASHBACK: Plush, reading in the wave the words “Infinite swell in unfitting induments."
CUT TO: Photograph of guitar covered in the world’s currency symbols and signs.
CUT TO: Percy: “All we shall have to do is unveil it, to simply remove the political cloak. The Olympics and other competitions exist partly for this purpose – to wave their cloaks and flags.
LONG SHOT of Max running with a flag bearing the symbols of the other flags at the games, flags of nations on one side and as he runs past, corporate logos combined with the symbols of the stock and bond worlds, and currencies from around the world.
CUT TO: Close-up of Max saying: “The most striking result of this cloak-research, by von Norman, elaborated his theory of ‘Olympic games and economic fluxuations’ after his 1928 paper: “Time, and the Oyl Race: The political use of the Olympic games, time and money.”
CUT TO: Tight close up of paper by von Norman, being inspected by Plush and Percy.
CUT TO: Man at speakers corner, London: “To have shortage neither in time nor in place but to have money there ready for sailing of ships, wangles of merchants and for the due pay for soldiers.
CUT TO: Max speaking of Geo Runoh: “The notion of a group is transformation and invariance. For these are not on terms, they twain.
PLUSH saying into his skype headphone: “This is the multiplicity inherent in his rhetoric. To weave and share. To approach the infinite by form, he was revolting against art.
INTERCUT: PERCY replies on a cell phone: “He demanded more wood alcohol to pitch in with.”
CUT TO: Artist in the dock: “I’m drawing on the methods of Imagist lyric, of drama, of narrative poetry, the realistic novel, cinema, to create a synthetic form capable of including the scope of modern consciousness, sir.
CUT TO: Computer screen froze during ‘Prose-tools’ session. Message flashing Reboot!
LIBERAL JUDGE: “But the results of human acts and decisions are alterable by acts and decisions.
COURT HECKLER: “This statement is equivalent to the assertion that it is the product of two functions; ‘ren or virtuous human nature and ‘Jing, Respect.
CRIMINAL ARTIST: “A precise language of sharing can be built up of stable, visually perceptible signs.
CUT TO: Looping footage of Angel falls.
NARRATOR: “Nature, image and sound play significantly interlocking parts. These parts are now altered, and augmented with a cyclical view of history.
Plush: “That history proceeds through corsi and ricorsi.
Percy: “The method of construction is roughly as follows;
CUT TO: Plush, Max and Percy in the studio.
PLUSH: saying to his friends: “We design a rhythm machine with an alphabet of ‘m letters (symbols used on the tape) and ‘n internal states,
PERCY repies: “We design a machine with two internal states, a rhythm-sharing machine.
NARRATOR: “Both man and Universe are indeed complex aggregates of motion.
CUT TO: Ezra Pound asking: “What could save infinite time and labour for pore mutts trying to learn a little Chinese.
SUBTITLE: “The overtones of words, the halos of secondary meaning, are struck among the infinite terms of things.
CUT TO: Peruvian Shaman, translated: “You won’t really need all that money.
NARRATOR (VOICE OVER): “Question: In What sense does the infinite universe radically modifies the relationship between God and the world, between God and human beings.
CUT TO: Frank Zappa: “Let us suppose that f(z) is measurable, and of summable square over any finite interval.
SUBTITLE: “Representability in a finite automaton with an Infinite past.
CUT TO: Jesus on the cross, the hill crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side, the vinegar heavy sponge.
CUT TO: Tour guide, as she folded the phone into her untidy bag and snapped the catch: “The Egyptians finally used abbreviated pictures to represent sounds.”
CRITIC: “Well, I cannot swallow all the sacrosanct principles and accepted truths underlying the writings of people who try to deal seriously with the problem, that is, the expression of the wave.”
BEARDED CARTOON PIRATE: “The great new tool of this age is information, from which has been born sharing.
CUT TO: Screen shot of computer running a Bit Torrent download.
VOICE 1: “The infinite which it superficially concealed in the notion of “any”.
VOICE 2: “It cannot be elsewhere, since its coincidence of spirituality with infinite matter means that ‘elsewhere’ does not exist.
CUT TO: Backstage at Rapalltown Hall, a Woman is responding to a question: “I did not catch the words, so I couldn’t respond to what he just asked. Mechanics represents an average of...the total weight of values...what?”
DOCUMENTARY STYLE VOICE OVER: “The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet.
CUT TO: Footage of a man making a cross-word puzzle on his plate, using alphabet soup letters.
OLD MAN saying: “Masterpieces of art, if they were stated formally in the language of self recursive function theory, and not tomato sauce...
MONTAGE: BATMAN: “Napoleon has invented a word, Ideology, which expresses my opinion:
SUPERMAN: Let S be a sequence of symbols. S is to denote the Set of all pairs.”
SPIDERMAN: “There was a whole will of the people. Knowledge and love collide and coincide with their object in the infinite.
CUT TO: Old man tapping TV screen with walking stick.
SUBTITLE: Language poetry, and the transparent slingshot”
SPIDERMAN: “Then came an adder and bit his throat so that he cried out in pain.”
CUT TO: Computer screen message:“To Play thou schouwburgst, Game, here endeth.
(The curtain drops by deep request, the image of a large hand projects onto the curtain, pointing to a sign that reads: The danger of single, absolute, or hegemonic principles or rules can be overcome with awareness of multi-dimensional meanings.)
CUT TO: Documentary Film Producer: “The above explanation, as well as the neurological attitude toward meaning, as expressed by HEAD, is non-elementalistic.
TIGHTROPE WALKING PHILOSOPHER: “It is an earthly virtue that I love the hierarchy of being extended between two extremes, pure act and pure potency.”
CUT TO: Independent 16 year old scholar on youtube: “The 21st’ century renaissance occurred because of a shift in the way the scholars regarded timespace, and linguistic relativity, it seems.
WOMEN TEACHER: “The limit of the integral of a function of the sequence is the integral of the limit.
RUPERT MURDOCH high on LSD: “But a visually homogenous mass consists of individuals in a new subjective sense, lecturing mostly on Highgull and Human-bat Spincer. We should be dazed and terror struck. ”
CUT TO: Plush tossing a coin in the air.
CUT TO: Percy saying: “Both finite and infinite games are analysed.
SUBTITLE: “Thus the formulation of the present infinite-valued non-aristotelian system became also an imperative necessity.
CUT TO: Man: “But what will you do with that money?”
WOMEN: “The return to the tribe!”
SUBTITLE: “It was in order to avoid an infinite regress that Aristotle taught we must assume premises that are indubitably true.
Photograph of M.C Escher’s 'Reptiles’ with the caption: “Infinite regression of proofs?”
BARD singing: “In sum an infinite great fall of rain and all refreshed.
VOICE FROM THE DIRECTORS CHAIR: “When the camera falls in love, what’s begotten is the authentic movie star.”
A ginger cat walks stiffly around the leg of the directors table.
YOUNG MAN: “Sewing machines will never come into general use’
OLD MAN: To study reading-books and history, to cut and sew and be neat at everything.”
Sound: First notes to ‘So what by ‘Miles Davis’.
CUT TO: fragment of a letter translated from French: “I Don’t know whether they were right or wrong?
CUT TO: Film canisters being thrown into an incinerator by Micky Mouse and William Randolf Hearst.
FADE OUT.
THE TALE OF THE TRIBE: 1936. By Steven "fly agaric" Pratt
Here's my latest update and interpretation of 'the tale of the tribe' is in the form of a google web-site, that I am still editing and readying for some kind of launch. Here's a recently edited rough synopsis of what I have done with some of the characters. --steve fly.
OUR HISTORYS BACK BY Fly Agaric 23:
Before Dr. Robert Anton Wilson graduated life in early 2007 he shared with the world a tantalizing glimpse into an epic project that he called ‘the tale of the tribe' (TTOTT): the blueprint for a new synthesis of some of the greatest minds of the 21st century, uniting quantum mechanics, neuro-semantics, design-science, Ideogramic method, history and culture, together into a typically RAW montage' of forces and values to help others distinguish useful information from all the bullshit. The historical characters or 'evolutionists' from RAW's TTOTT krewe were individuals that helped to speed up the ability of humans to condense ideas and then share information, that has directed humanity into the - information age - and the sharing mass-age. In Our Historys Back' fly has designed an environment based in 1936 where these TTOTT characters can blend their creative genius and fall into orbit with one another; poets, linguists, logicians, design-scientists and artists meet to share their wisdom on advancing humanity into the 21st century. New creative research into the tale of the tribe aims to open up a new vista of interpretations from the fragments left to us by Dr. Wilson. And this adaptation of Dr. Wilson's 'tale of the tribe' is the first such project, to my knowledge, to tackle TTOTT lineage and place some characters into a new Novel architecture. I hope that this project will at least encourage some of you who are on a similar road of investigation and nudge-nudge - create your own TTOTT synthesis.
Our Historys Back’ features remixed 'TTOTT' characters rounded into a tale within a tale by our protagonists. The tale within a tale follows a band of old bards who journey to the 1936 Olympic Games into the sick-heart of the Nazi intelligence games to boldly state their perfected word and communicate their sporting peace to all nations on behalf of artists, painters and poets worldwide. Standing in their way are a sordid alliance of spies from many nations including English, American, German, Canadian and Soviet agents; who have arranged to meet in Berlin to finalize their annual guns, dope and intelligence 'trade off'
Max, Percy and Plush are three friends living in Amsterdam, 2012, united by their synchronistic interest in RAW's ‘tale of the tribe’ and producing their own story that includes a culture’s hierarchy of values and histories. Plush has perfected his turntable-altable method of mixing and cutting specially crafted LP’s, that contain pre-recorded samples from the 1936 tale and afterwards, together with Max and Percy, they splice the recordings into dialogue and a dramatic sequence of events. The MPHDJ Method translates roughly as mixing special kinds of sampled literature using the approach of a musical DJ or turntablist.
The 1936 tale spans 48 hours and three main locations, taking place in theatres in New York and Rapallo’ simultaneously on July 31st', and then moving to Berlin and the opening of the IXth Olympic Games on August 1st. The recurring theme of the story is probably the precept of ‘ language versus the equation’, translated into how the characters share their different fields of experience and wisdom creating a communication network, to help others bring a new peace to Europe through a linguistic relativism, a new language to help facilitate peace and communication between all nations and humanity.
--Steven "fly" Pratt.
28th October. 2009. Amsterdam.
comming soon....
OUR HISTORYS BACK BY Fly Agaric 23:
Before Dr. Robert Anton Wilson graduated life in early 2007 he shared with the world a tantalizing glimpse into an epic project that he called ‘the tale of the tribe' (TTOTT): the blueprint for a new synthesis of some of the greatest minds of the 21st century, uniting quantum mechanics, neuro-semantics, design-science, Ideogramic method, history and culture, together into a typically RAW montage' of forces and values to help others distinguish useful information from all the bullshit. The historical characters or 'evolutionists' from RAW's TTOTT krewe were individuals that helped to speed up the ability of humans to condense ideas and then share information, that has directed humanity into the - information age - and the sharing mass-age. In Our Historys Back' fly has designed an environment based in 1936 where these TTOTT characters can blend their creative genius and fall into orbit with one another; poets, linguists, logicians, design-scientists and artists meet to share their wisdom on advancing humanity into the 21st century. New creative research into the tale of the tribe aims to open up a new vista of interpretations from the fragments left to us by Dr. Wilson. And this adaptation of Dr. Wilson's 'tale of the tribe' is the first such project, to my knowledge, to tackle TTOTT lineage and place some characters into a new Novel architecture. I hope that this project will at least encourage some of you who are on a similar road of investigation and nudge-nudge - create your own TTOTT synthesis.
Our Historys Back’ features remixed 'TTOTT' characters rounded into a tale within a tale by our protagonists. The tale within a tale follows a band of old bards who journey to the 1936 Olympic Games into the sick-heart of the Nazi intelligence games to boldly state their perfected word and communicate their sporting peace to all nations on behalf of artists, painters and poets worldwide. Standing in their way are a sordid alliance of spies from many nations including English, American, German, Canadian and Soviet agents; who have arranged to meet in Berlin to finalize their annual guns, dope and intelligence 'trade off'
Max, Percy and Plush are three friends living in Amsterdam, 2012, united by their synchronistic interest in RAW's ‘tale of the tribe’ and producing their own story that includes a culture’s hierarchy of values and histories. Plush has perfected his turntable-altable method of mixing and cutting specially crafted LP’s, that contain pre-recorded samples from the 1936 tale and afterwards, together with Max and Percy, they splice the recordings into dialogue and a dramatic sequence of events. The MPHDJ Method translates roughly as mixing special kinds of sampled literature using the approach of a musical DJ or turntablist.
The 1936 tale spans 48 hours and three main locations, taking place in theatres in New York and Rapallo’ simultaneously on July 31st', and then moving to Berlin and the opening of the IXth Olympic Games on August 1st. The recurring theme of the story is probably the precept of ‘ language versus the equation’, translated into how the characters share their different fields of experience and wisdom creating a communication network, to help others bring a new peace to Europe through a linguistic relativism, a new language to help facilitate peace and communication between all nations and humanity.
--Steven "fly" Pratt.
28th October. 2009. Amsterdam.
comming soon....
8/06/2009
Adamsterham letters: Pound and Joyce.
Adamsterham letters: Pound and Joyce.
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and the Cantos of Ezra Pound are examples of a single artists global perspective of humanity, and the language of the humanity tribe.
Both books are important for any NEW Word Order between different cultures, their hierarchy of values and a new unified foundation upon which these differences can be accommodated, shared and mixed into the diversity of world humanity. The multicultural and co-operative open societies we must learn to cohabit.
Both psycho-somatically and geo-politically, open-source-flow of LANGUAGE processing and communications are critical for a healthy co-operative open society. F.W and the Cantos pry open the barrels of world language and give us our “Tale of the Tribe”; a tale of humanity – warts and all - that dislocates and relocates history into a new language of truth beauty and meaning beyond the linear - Aristotelian based - alphabetic cipher.
Both psycho-somatically and geo-politically, open-source-flow of LANGUAGE processing and communications are critical for a healthy co-operative open society. F.W and the Cantos pry open the barrels of world language and give us our “Tale of the Tribe”; a tale of humanity – warts and all - that dislocates and relocates history into a new language of truth beauty and meaning beyond the linear - Aristotelian based - alphabetic cipher.
In particular, Finnegans Wake and the Cantos introduced by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson in his book COINCIDANCE--amidst C.G Jung, physicist David Bohm and the usual tribe of colourful characters whom RAW invokes using his own special species of writing--he presents evidence, which i now interpret to suggest that “Finnegans Wake” in particular, and Pound’s “Cantos” behave as special kinds of writing – Tales of the tribe? – that somehow increase the synchronistic experiences of those who come into contact with them - almost as if spooky entities are invoked by reading and/or speaking words aloud.
A spooky kind of intelligence seems to live in the poetry itself, a time-traveling entity here to inhabit the non-locally perceived space-time manifold of human observers, to the degree that they are paying attention to the text and to their own surroundings. The two flip polarity and the narrator is suddenly describing the present, as the individual observer perceives it, probably due to the effects of hologramic prose’ i guess, which can seem spooky and wonderful at the same time. Deja Vu’?
Both books are striking to me as a total revision of the English language, of which i am a native speaker - and both came as a shock to what i perceive to be familiar texts, poems, histories, novels and literature up until that point.
The books seemed totally alien to me at first, impossibly complex like a crossword fortress of foreign symbols & esoteric syntax; all fucked up words, beyond recognition etc,. But with the help of a reading group and some fantastic teachers, a search engines i came to decipher some of the text, or i became confident in sharing my rather wild observations about what i was reading based largely on the locally interactive method by which such “world encyclopedias” operate. Synchronicity strikes.
I feel that the sense of weird synchronicity increases when one is interacting with any such specially attenuated--world epic-encyclopedic (Tale of the Tribe)--and the method by which one creates such a work, is by no means something you learn in school. More in the tradition of music, it seems to me that the creation of such masterpieces that radiate a magical quality of--spooky action at a distance--are successful as works of art and poetry, so powerful and universal are the themes and language deployed that they can be overwhelming in their precise and personal way of interacting with the individual and the tribe. Masterpieces within the ancient Hermetic tradition.
Unlike most religious texts and socially binding contracts these unique poems charged up with a global language reflect the story of his-story, as told and/or annotated by one author. A single unified individual who serves as the scribe of the tribe, the one who puts down what really happened, the one who invents a whole new style and develops a whole new language that aims to include all humanity and the biosphere under its parasol.
The artists provoke and poke you and pull your coat tails, trying to get you to see and read again, making you think and even forcing the reader to expand their linguistic palate if they really want to “know” something about the book and the world within which it breathes. Who, when, why, how, where are difficult to locate at first, you have to almost just read blind at first, like a kind of braille reading but without any prior experience with reading braille.
You have to feel and breathe with these texts and then, i bet you, if you just continue something will jump off the page and begin YOUR particular reading, an illuminated detail, an epiphany and a synchronicity will follow if you pay attention and keep an open mind. The rewards from reading in this way and from reading both these books in combination with internet search engines and vast document archives, and, if you can dig it, writings of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, you have a platform,an axis, a foundation for tackling the alphapocalypse of culture and language that i perceive to be moments away, and in synchrony with the singularity i call timewave 6012.
You have to feel and breathe with these texts and then, i bet you, if you just continue something will jump off the page and begin YOUR particular reading, an illuminated detail, an epiphany and a synchronicity will follow if you pay attention and keep an open mind. The rewards from reading in this way and from reading both these books in combination with internet search engines and vast document archives, and, if you can dig it, writings of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, you have a platform,an axis, a foundation for tackling the alphapocalypse of culture and language that i perceive to be moments away, and in synchrony with the singularity i call timewave 6012.
I propose that the new global and multicultural perspectives and daily interactions with such encyclopedias of humanitas’ increase the likely-hood of experiencing the synchronicity phenomena in your life i guess. A strange statement, but this reflects my own experiences with these two texts, not just Dr. Wilson's Joyce/Pound synchromesh; and i feel that with the added resource of global internet i can present some of my findings and add a little to the field of Joyce and Pound scholarship within the great lineage of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson. A new beginning.
You can read about my encounters with Finnegans Wake and Cantos in my other blog posts, and the following is meant to be an update and further glossing of the two books based on my current physical location in Amsterdam, NL.
John Adams is a major figure within Pound’s Cantos, and this is why both Stourbridge and Amsterdam appear in the Cantos – John Adams visit to Europe during the 1780’s during which time he encountered the banking and trade chiefs of Holland and England, among other countries and wrote things about florins, Pounds, Guilders; who distributes them and how. Pound weaves writing of American presidents together, writing and thoughts critically compared, all about Europe, empire, commerce, war and banking. All with Chinese equivalences, Persian equivalences, Roman, Greek, German and Egyptian equivalences, all dancing together on the page, wrestling to make sense of the world at war, world commerce, world empire and a world language flexible yet precise enough to contain it all in a single text by a single author.
John Adams is a major figure within Pound’s Cantos, and this is why both Stourbridge and Amsterdam appear in the Cantos – John Adams visit to Europe during the 1780’s during which time he encountered the banking and trade chiefs of Holland and England, among other countries and wrote things about florins, Pounds, Guilders; who distributes them and how. Pound weaves writing of American presidents together, writing and thoughts critically compared, all about Europe, empire, commerce, war and banking. All with Chinese equivalences, Persian equivalences, Roman, Greek, German and Egyptian equivalences, all dancing together on the page, wrestling to make sense of the world at war, world commerce, world empire and a world language flexible yet precise enough to contain it all in a single text by a single author.
7/04/2009
2012: HOLLYWOOD BULLSHIT BUBBLE BURSTS
Generally when people don't understand things they go for a sinister explanation, a conspiracy, a disaster - and hollywood - it's producers, screen writers, actors, media spin doctors and pundits seems to be to be at the cutting of sinister explanations, turning superstition into cinematic science; a great skill when used on behalf of humanity, not the box office, don't get me wrong, i admire the possibilities of cinema. But cinema in conjunction with history, science, language and humanity.
A 2012 movie shall be made to reflect the positive transformation possibly due around about 21st December 2012.
2012
A 2012 movie shall be made to reflect the positive transformation possibly due around about 21st December 2012.
2012
6/15/2009
Pod, Chase, Bates.
“the sun in his great periplum leads in his fleet here sotto le nostre scogoli under our craggy cliffs alevel their mast-tops . . . ”
— Ira Pod (Dantale 76)
NOW YOLK. APOLLODELPHI THEATRE sketch v1.0
CUBEDOME
NOW YOLK. APOLLODELPHI THEATRE.
(JackY Muller, Manfred Humanski and James Shermon are talking about the CUBE).
JACK MULLER: A vectorial-edged cube collapses. The cube's corner flexibility can be frustrated only by triangulation. Each of the four corners of the cube's six faces could be structurally stabilized with small triangular gussets, of which there would be 24, with the long edge structurals acting as powerful levers against the small triangles. The complete standard stabilization of the cube can be accomplished with a minimum of six additional members in the form of six structural struts placed diagonally, corner to comer, in each of the six square faces, with four of the cube's eight corner vertexes so interconnected. These six, end-interconnected diagonals are the six edges of a tetrahedron. The most efficiently stabilized cubical form is accomplished with the prime structural system of Universe: the tetrahedron."
JAMES SHERMON: A method is developed for representing any communication
system geometrically. Messages and the corresponding signals are
points in two “function spaces,” and the modulation process is a
mapping of one space into the other. Using this representation, a
number of results in communication theory are deduced concerning
expansion and compression of bandwidth and the threshold
effect. Formulas are found for the maximum rate of transmission
of binary digits over a system when the signal is perturbed by
various types of noise. Some of the properties of “ideal” systems
which transmit at this maximum rate are discussed. The equivalent
number of binary digits per second for certain information sources is calculated.
system geometrically. Messages and the corresponding signals are
points in two “function spaces,” and the modulation process is a
mapping of one space into the other. Using this representation, a
number of results in communication theory are deduced concerning
expansion and compression of bandwidth and the threshold
effect. Formulas are found for the maximum rate of transmission
of binary digits over a system when the signal is perturbed by
various types of noise. Some of the properties of “ideal” systems
which transmit at this maximum rate are discussed. The equivalent
number of binary digits per second for certain information sources is calculated.
JACKY MULLER: Because of the structural integrity of the blackboard or paper on which they may be schematically pictured, the cubically profiled form can exist, but only as an experienceable, forms-suggesting picture, induced by lines deposited in chalk, or ink, or lead, accomplished by the sketching individual with only 12 of the compression- representing strut edge members interjoined by eight flexible vertex fastenings.
JAMES SHERMON: If noise is added to the signal in transmission, it means
that the point corresponding to the signal has been moved a
certain distance in the space proportional to the rms value of
the noise. Thus noise produces a small region of uncertainty
about each point in the space. A fixed distortion in the
channel corresponds to a warping of the space, so that each
point is moved, but in a definite fixed way.
JACKY MULLER: The accomplishment of experienceable, structurally stabilized cubes with a minimum of nonredundant structural components will always and only consist of one equiangled and equiedged "regular" tetrahedron on each of whose four faces are congruently superimposed asymmetrical tetrahedra, one of whose four triangular faces is equiangled and therefore congruently superimposable on each of the four faces of the regular tetrahedron; while the four asymmetrical superimposed tetrahedra's other three triangular__and outwardly exposed__faces are all similar isosceles triangles, each with two 45-degree-angle corners and one corner of 90 degrees. Wherefore, around each of the outermost exposed corners of the asymmetrical tetrahedra, we also find three 90-degree angles which account for four of the cube's eight corners; while the other four 90-degree surrounded corners of the cube consist of pairs of 45-degree corners of the four asymmetric tetrahedra that were superimposed upon the central regular tetrahedron to form the stabilized cube.
ICOSAHEDRON:
JAMES SHERMON: We now consider the function of the transmitter from
this geometrical standpoint. The input to the transmitter is
a message; that is, one point in the message space. Its output
is a signal—one point in the signal space. Whatever form
of encoding or modulation is performed, the transmitter
must establish some correspondence between the points in
the two spaces. Every point in the message space must
correspond to a point in the signal space, and no two
messages can correspond to the same signal. If they did,
there would be no way to determine at the receiver which
of the two messages was intended. The geometrical name
for such a correspondence is a mapping. The transmitter
maps the message space into the signal space.
JACKY MULLER: In short, structurally stabilized (and otherwise unstable) cubes are always and only the most simply compact aggregation of one symmetrical and four asymmetrical tetrahedra. Likewise considered, a dodecahedron may not be a cognizable entity-integrity, or be rememberable or recognizable as a regenerative entity, unless it is omnistabilized by omnitriangulation of its systematic subdivision of all Universe into either and both insideness and outsideness, with a small remainder of Universe to be discretely invested into the system-entity's structural integrity. No energy action in Universe would bring about a blackboard-suggested pentagonal necklace, let alone 12 pentagons collected edge to edge to superficially outline a dodecahedron. The dodecahedron is a demonstrable entity only when its 12 pentagonal faces are subdivided into five triangles, each of which is formed by introducing into each pentagon five struts radiating unitedly from the pentagons' centers to their five comer vertexes, of which vertexes the dodecahedron has 20 in all, to whose number when structurally stabilized must be added the 12 new pentagonal center vertexes. This gives the minimally, nonredundantly structural dodecahedron 32 vertexes, 60 faces, and 90 strut lines. In the same way, a structural cube has 12 triangular vertexes, 8 faces, and 18 linear struts.
JAMES SHERMON: This type of mapping, due to the mathematician Cantor,
can easily be extended as far as we wish in the direction of
reducing dimensionality. A space of n' dimensions can be
mapped in a one-to-one way into a space of one dimension.
Physically, this means that the frequency-time product can
be reduced as far as we wish when there is no noise, with
exact recovery of the original messages.
JACKY MULLER: The vector equilibrium may not be referred to as a stabilized structure except when six struts are inserted as diagonal triangulators in its six square faces, wherefore the topological description of the vector equilibrium always must be 12 vertexes, 20 (triangular) faces, and 30 linear struts, which is also the topological description of the icosahedron, which is exactly what the six triangulating diagonals that have hypotenusal diagonal vectors longer than the square edge vectors bring about when their greater force shrinks them to equilength with the other 24 edge struts. This interlinkage transforms the vector equilibrium's complex symmetry of six squares and eight equiangled triangles into the simplex symmetry of the icosahedron.
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