Category: A Tale of a tribe

  • BETWEEN THE GROOVE

    BETWEEN THE GROOVE

    ON THE CUTS…

    Amsterdam, 2012. DJ-poet Plush, reeling from attacks that shattered his career, forms TRB with Max and Percy. Inspired by Robert Anton Wilson, they fuse turntablism, magick, and literature into the chaotic TribeTable Method, accidentally plugging into Wilson’s unfinished “Tale of the Tribe” and a brewing historical conspiracy centered on the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

    As they juggle invoked entities (“The Sixty”), time-traveling tardigrades, and messages channeled through experimental beats, they attract the attention of a ruthless cabal manipulating reality through AI, populism, and bizarre rituals involving peanut butter. From Amsterdam coffeeshops and secret bases beneath the Malvern Hills to the decks of a reality-bending DJ battle, TRB must decode the “Hologrammic Prose” of the universe, hijack the narrative, and fight the “Prick Populist” threat before the singularity hits endgame.Deep Scratch is Vanta Black science fiction comedy.

    It’s Burroughs cut-ups slammed into Pynchon paranoia, fueled by hip-hop aesthetics and occult theory. Expect prophetic visions, weaponized memes, sentient technology, talking books, exploding jellyfish, and the desperate search for the perfect beat in a deep fake universe. The tables are turning. Which side are you on, are you on, hello, check check…?

    What?

    BTG


  • DSR 2 – THE NINE COMMANDMENTS

    DSR 2 – THE NINE COMMANDMENTS

    TONGA
    THE NINE COMMANDMENTS
    TEXT: Defo’ need a new glossary of terms. DSR: Deep Scratch Remix. LLM: large Language Model. GPT: Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. TTOTT: The Tale Of The Tribe. TTM: Tribe Table Method. DSR: Deep Scratch Remix. What else?

    As the satellite orbited the Earth, its camera captured an awesome view of the little virgin planet below. Swirls of white fluffy clouds drifted across the blue expanse of the oceans like some gods long beard, while vast stretches of mottled green and beige marked the landmasses.

    Zooming in, the camera honed in on a particular bright city, Amsterdam. It flew closer and closer, and as it descended, the clouds grew thicker, obscuring the view to only a few meters. Eventually we penetrate the cloud cover, to reveal the sprawling metropolis below and onto a nondescript building tucked away on a quiet street. Inside the building, in a laboratory filled with turntables, mixers, and synthesizers, stand two figures. Jake’s fingers deftly sweep across the controls of a mixing board, while Plush leans over a custom marble keyboard, his headphones on.

    The camera hovered in the air for a moment, capturing the lab scene in all its intricate 360 degrees of detail. The blinking lights on the equipment catch the sweat droplets on the brows of the two producers, the posters on the wall showcasing their past gigs flutter with the sub bass patterns.

    Then, with a sudden jolt, the camera descended further, as if hurtling towards the laboratory at breakneck speed. Through the glass walls, it enters the beads of sweat on Jake’s forehead, the intensity in Plush’s eyes flash from inside the droplet. The camera stops, hovering just above the turntable where the two producers were working, their deft hands are a blur as they tweak knobs and push buttons, sending electricity bolts coursing through the room. The textual-music they create is a fusion of the past and the future. 

    And so, Jake stayed awake for the next three days with Plush, typing away at his keyboard, getting it down and out. With an AI by his side, words flowed effortlessly from his mind onto the screen. It was as if a switch had been flipped, and he was finally able to unleash his imagination. As he wrote on and rapped freely, he was transported back in time to the world of his previous novel, a flash back with Plush and Max on stage. He was so immersed in his work that he barely noticed the passing of time. Jake’s phone beeped twice, The Nine commandments were baked:

    1. Use generative A.I. ethically and responsibly. This includes avoiding the creation of biassed or offensive language, and ensuring that the generated language is respectful and accurate.
    2. Understand the limitations of generative A.I. These tools are not perfect and may produce errors or produce language that is not fully coherent. It is important to use them with caution and to be aware of their limitations.
    3. Be open to new ideas and perspectives when using generative A.I. These tools can help to expose you to different ways of thinking and communicating, and can be a valuable resource for exploring new concepts and ideas.
    4. Continuously learn and improve your understanding of generative A.I. These tools are constantly evolving, and it is important to stay up-to-date with the latest developments and best practices in order to use them effectively.
    5. Use generative A.I. to enhance your own writing and communication skills, rather than relying on them solely to do the work for you. These tools can be a valuable resource, but it is important to develop your own skills and abilities as well.
    6. Be mindful of the impact that generative A.I. can have on language and communication. These tools have the potential to influence the way we communicate, and it is important to consider the potential consequences of their use.
    7. Use generative A.I. in a way that is transparent and accountable. This includes clearly disclosing the use of these tools, and being open and honest about any limitations or errors that may arise.
    8. Respect the intellectual property and copyright of others when using generative A.I. These tools should not be used to produce unauthorised copies of copyrighted material.
    9. Use generative A.I. to create positive and constructive content. These tools should not be used to produce harmful or offensive language, or to spread misinformation or disinformation.
    –DSR

    As the recording session with Plush and Jake came to a close, they fist bumped each other in celebration of a successful session. The equipment was turned off and packed away, and the two producers made their way out of the laboratory, setting the alarms and locking the door behind them.

    However, they had accidentally left one of the microphones on. The sound signal from the microphone had travelled through the air until it reached a nearby cellular tower. From there, the signal was transmitted via phone networks, hopping from tower to tower, until it was picked up by a satellite in orbit.

    The satellite, along with countless others, relayed the signal across vast distances, until it finally reached an office in Moscow. The office was located in a towering grey skyscraper, filled with people in suits staring intently at computer screens.

    The signal was received by a group of men and women, huddled around a monitor displaying a waveform graph. They listened intently, trying to decipher the audio, as it crackled and hissed with static. They worked quickly, isolating and filtering out the background noise, until the audio became clear and crisp.

    What they heard stunned them. It was the voices of Plush and Jake, discussing a secret project. The captured conversation was brief, like the sexual habits of those huddled around the monitor. The group of people in the Moscow office thought that they had stumbled upon something big, and they immediately set to work, scouring the internet and hacking into servers, trying to uncover more information on Plush, Jake and DSR. The two producers had unwittingly set off a daisy-chain of events.  

    TEXT: The GPT genii is out the bottle. Can’t put it back in. Can legislate and some will but its rogue AI on the loose. I’m trying to figure it out.

    KINDLE EDITION

  • On McLuhan’s Mental Mosaic – Hologrammic Prose

    “But McLuhan created a more fundamental means to a more organic understanding in the very aphoristic style in which he chose to convey his ideas one consciously embodying the concept that the medium is the message. Its means is not to follow a continuous, linear, and unbroken line of thought, but to create a tessellated pattern of ideas, with each of the tiles in the mental mosaic a particular facet of the overall pattern. Like fractals, an analogue that has gained currency only since McLuhan’s last work, the grand, overall pattern is contained in miniature in each of the parts. He also took as models for this style writers in the symbolist and modernist movements, particularly Mallarme, Eliot, Pound, and Joyce.”
    http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/ojs/index.php/ameriquests/article/viewFile/83/90

    “McLuhan contends that all media–in and of themselves and regardless of the messages they communicate–exert a compelling influence on man and society. Prehistoric, or tribal, man existed in a harmonious balance of the senses, perceiving the world equally through hearing, smell, touch, sight and taste. But technological innovations are extensions of human abilities and senses that alter this sensory balance–an alteration that, in turn, inexorably reshapes the society that created the technology. According to McLuhan, there have been three basic technological innovations: the invention of the phonetic alphabet, which jolted tribal man out of his sensory balance and gave dominance to the eye; the introduction of movable type in the 16th Century, which accelerated this process; and the invention of the telegraph in 1844, which heralded an electronics revolution that will ultimately retribalize man by restoring his sensory balance. McLuhan has made it his business to explain and extrapolate the repercussions of this electronic revolution.”–Playboy, http://www.mcluhanmedia.com/m_mcl_inter_pb_01.html

  • tale of the tribe and the sirius mystery

    The tale of the tribe contact high.

    Fuck off, and welcome to another installment of my blog–a tale of the tribe–that aims to offer a resource of specific information related to the great complex and generally hidden project (unfinished) tale of the tribe, by the late Robert Anton Wilson.

    Since a recent positive explosion of interest in Robert Anton Wilson across the United Kingdom due, in part to the brilliant book by John Higgs about the the KLF featuring much RAW wisdom and context for a UK audience. Plus, the Cosmic Trigger stage play looks to make agents sweat when it launches in Liverpool, November 23rd 2014. Revisiting Cosmic Trigger the book, the current author was bowled over again by gazillions of new connections, and a new deeper love for RAW and his life story, and a willingness to look at the tale of the tribe from a new angle, which sets the basis of the following piece of writing i gathered onto the paper page a few hours ago, here in Vondel Park, Amsterdam.

    Fire!
    x

    pg. 1

    TTOTT and the Sirius mystery

    what if
    RAWs great unfinished symphony
    the tale of the tribe
    were more than a guide to 13 of
    the greatest human minds
    who helped humanity find
    peace
    through communication

    what if
    TTOTT
    were also a guide to contacting
    higher intelligences
    from alternate dimensions
    or wherever
    what if the tale of the tribe
    were really a key
    to the sirius mystery
    and itself a cosmic trigger?

    pg. 2

    take Girodano Bruno
    his new languages
    for new communications with
    higher intelligence
    development of angelic languages
    so called

    foundations of
    enochian vision magick
    contemporary with John Dee and
    Edward Kelly

    maybe
    Bruno and his works hold keys
    to early contact with E.Ts
    angels entities as you wish
    and denizens of the sirius
    triple star system

    strange holy guardian angels
    but somehow
    communicating through timespace
    through the nervous system of
    Robert Anton Wilson
    into the tale of the tribe
    a modern critique
    of scripture
    holy binding contractual poetic
    does it work?

    pg. 3

    Yeats Joyce and Pound
    also made
    contact
    in some sense with higher
    intelligence
    some might say muse
    others artistic inspiration
    but what

    if Yeats…
    (a butterfly landed with all six mittens onto
    the page while writing this
    two antenna
    deep burnt orange and woody
    choco’ brown hairs with dashes of
    white)

    what if
    William Butler Yeats
    picked up on the magickal hermetic
    current and methods for contacting
    higher intelligence
    either from his own study of Bruno
    Dee Kelly Ficino
    or

    from Aleister Crowley
    the great beast
    who diligently practiced
    enochian magick

    pg. 4

    and so
    maybe Yeats passed on the
    invisible bug or knowledge
    a tiny magickal starseed
    to his associates
    James Joyce and
    Ezra Pound?

    the Chinese written character
    and ancient imagist sensibility
    in resonance with contacting
    higher intelligence
    how did that language strike up from the past?

    (contact between the widow of
    American scholar of Japanese arts and
    oriental culture: Ernest
    Fenollosa and Ezra Pound cc. 1912)

    the hermetic current
    tirelessly innovating culture
    art and science with
    humanitas

    pushing out beyond language
    into total communication
    magick keys to open invisible doorways
    geometry poetry mathematics
    and good will

    pg. 5

    and a will to power
    to the people
    special languages of poetry
    to awaken the reader
    to the ignorance in knowledge
    firm trust in the universe to provide
    flying on the wings of
    imagination

    what if
    contact with higher intelligence
    disguises itself as creative impulse
    and the spark of ingenuity?

    Joyce and Pound each
    made a revolution in
    communications scripture
    and systems

    a good guide to contacting your
    own deeper shadow self
    your private muse
    angel
    or sirian servant
    invoked for good intentions
    on behalf of all around the world
    humanity
    a doorway for friendly ET intervention
    ummm…

    pg. 6

    deeper still we have
    the Polish genius who contacted
    higher intelligence through the
    intensive work and innovation of
    language:
    general semantics

    a refinement of language structure
    toward a science of meaning
    contact with multiple entities
    a lesson for self centered
    naive realists
    in non-Aristotelian language systems
    of limited communications
    Alfred Korzybski

    key to magickal workings
    a 20th century extension of core
    hermetic wisdom
    scientifically presented as
    a system

    deployed by William S. Burroughs
    a possible way to interpret the nova mob
    practiced and mastered by
    Robert Anton Wilson himself
    the epic vortex
    of imagination and good
    willed humour

    pg. 7

    what if
    Buckminster Fuller were a
    primary key figure to
    understanding and making use of the
    hermetic wisdom in
    contacting higher intelligence

    innovation of geometry
    so as to benefit all humanity
    design science revolution
    in the hermetic tradition
    not for weapons of war
    but knowledge systems and new
    communications languages
    for peace

    toward universal abundance
    of technology in the
    minds of the people
    the natural abundance of
    carbon 60
    or bucky balls
    throughout the universe

    serious cosmic economics
    extraterrestrial technology
    and contact
    through the medium of geometry
    maybe some Giordano Bruno
    wisdom
    geodesics and dymaxion
    architecture for the people
    buckyballs and the mad
    carbon 60 mystery of the
    universe:
    ubiquity of c60 throughout it!

    pg. 8

    what if
    the father of information sciences
    and the mathematical theory of
    communication
    Claude Shannon
    were perceived as another
    unforeseen link to opening the
    invisible doorways through which
    higher intelligence
    crept

    to lead much of humanity in 2014
    into contact
    with everybody and everything
    imaginable:
    the global internet of things

    a basically hermetic ideaspace:
    shared knowledge and a
    scientific tool for discovery
    and information processing
    and
    feedback

    Shannon dangles keys
    to as yet undiscovered
    rooms without walls
    mind boggling complexity
    negentropy
    building a new cypher language
    to help deduce and evaluate
    information
    through innovating the equations
    binary electrical switching circuit
    contact

    pg. 9

    what if
    the tale of the tribe
    by Robert Anton Wilson
    defines another order of
    methods and systems
    required for any thinking individual
    who really wants to make contact
    with higher intelligence
    here it is
    cosmic trigger
    study it

    and with luck ideas and inspiration
    may emerge to lift up humanity
    and instigate newer and faster
    technological innovations
    of the living
    livingry

    once contact is established
    how the to ask
    a meaningful question
    how to interpret the information

    quantum mechanics
    and taoism
    both
    systems for deeper study
    on contemplating a holy
    guardian angel
    entity
    shadow self
    how to?

    pg. 10

    magickal workings in the
    enochian language seem
    to me to be more effective
    way to contact higher intelligence
    without tears
    with good reason healthy skepticism
    and a playful soul

    based upon evidence from
    RAWs books such as Cosmic Trigger vol. 1
    and from RAW himself in my interviews
    i now feel today that
    there exists a particular contact
    procedure
    based on RAWs experiments detailed in his
    book
    methodology that includes
    magickal occult ceremony
    and tantric rituals
    together with strange drugs

    Aha
    i hear the skeptic shout accusingly
    drugs!
    i knew it
    all this babble about contact and angels
    he’s high on acid

    well yes what you thought
    the psychedelic experience
    mimics the magickal experience
    and the experience of art too
    getting beyond language
    into epiphany and cosmic coincidence
    or better yet synchronicity

    pg. 11

    to innovate the priest craft
    while keeping two feet
    grounded on earth
    in the sewer
    maybe the message from the stars
    seeds is to evolve and mutate?
    get back to the primary source of
    a kind of
    decentralized (Bruno)
    perception

    unlimited and unbounded by belief
    beliefs unlimited
    freedom of thought
    as Crowley and Leary
    and Philip K. Dick demonstrated

    we are not alone but
    surrounded by a network of sentient
    beings
    a love macrocosm
    teaming with life and things to
    communicate and
    probably not in english

    simply tune in
    RAW tuned in while also turned on
    and quickly got dialled into
    sirius.raw broadcasting network 23

    since getting in touch
    RAW crafted ingenious magickal
    communication devices
    or books
    utilized to help
    other make contact
    and possibly take the plunge and
    attempt the tale of the tribe
    for themselves

    pg. 12

    TTOTT
    a modern verse epic
    an epic including history
    a global epic for the entire
    human race
    from the perception of
    an individual stuck in time
    space

    a spirited attempt to
    redeem oneself from the
    mostly violent
    wreckage of history
    the history of men
    empire warfare greed
    and nightmare bushit’ whirl

    a new book of the day
    contact for all who read
    to provoke freedom of thought
    and sympathy and forgiveness
    for all mankind

    the gods never left us’
    we must knuckle down and
    create this kind spirit of open
    communication for all entities
    both gods and insects
    we must become the
    magick
    we wish to see manifest
    in the word/world

    pg. 13

    two examples of
    the tale of the tribe
    the cantos of Ezra Pound
    &
    Finnegans Wake by James
    Joyce

    both epic and encyclopedic
    global
    tragic comic
    multi lingual
    crated a whole new style
    ideogrammic prose
    hologrammic prose

    both in the hermetic tradition
    heavy on math
    geometry and esoteric symbol
    systems innovated and
    unified in the minds of
    the people who read them

    keys to holding a kind sanity
    in the facebook of a
    pop culture apocalypse
    love and light of acknowledgement
    that nothing is what it first appears to be

    pg. 14

    and slowness is beauty
    good access to the data for all
    helps build a clearer picture
    global webnet search engines
    unleash much occulted information and
    wisdom hidden within the cantos
    and the wake
    even today

    and so the global
    hermetic revolution is underway
    and has been for thousands of years
    artists
    scientists
    hackers
    magicians

    untied against fundamentalist
    materialists
    religious and scientific dogma
    state sponsored bully boy tactics

    and against mean spirited
    greedy actions for the exclusive
    benefit of the few

    a planet spaceship earth
    with 7.6 Billion passengers
    using over 750 languages
    requires a certain sympathetic
    and tolerant individual
    who attempts unity in verse
    including history
    without loosing sight of
    the guiding principle of compassion
    and kindness for all sentient beings

    –Steve Fly Agaric 23
    Amsterdam. 6.50 P.M, 11th June, 2014.


    (on my way back from the park this afternoon i made a decision that when i got home i would google “Yeats and “butterflies” to see what might turn up. Of course, in 1934 Yeats wrote a drama titled ‘Wheels and Butterflies’ adding some spice to this mini-drama unfolding within a drama triggered by a butterfly landing on my open page as i wrote the word Yeats.)

  • Fenollosa Pound Olson and the Chinese written character

     

    “The first was Ernest Fenollosa’s provocative essay ‘The Chinese Wriiten Character as a Medium for Poetry.’ He found the Pound-edited text of the essay in the latter’s book Instigations and excitedly copied out its main arguments into his notebook that June. Fenollosa’s account of the exhaustion of poetic qualities in modern discourse resulting from a degeneration of the original capacity of language to mime the physical processes, and his implicit advocacy of a return to the state of primal verbal immediacy, with words once again becoming instrumental to the creation of ‘a vivid shorthand picture of the operations of nature,’ held for Olson the same appeal it had for Pound before him.–Tom Clark, Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life. pg. 103.

     
     
     
     

  • Robert Anton Wilson: further musings by steve fly

     Robert Anton Wilson: further musings by steve fly

    Robert Anton Wilson spent over 50 years producing original thoughts and ideas, criss-cossing academic boundaries like a flock og migrating birds. All-at-once an independent scholar, social critic, comedian, playwright, poet and novelist. RAW lived through WWII, the cold war, the 1960s counter culture explosion, the digital technological millennium and the globalization of humanity by way of the world wide web. RAW kept a front row seat next to other great scientific philosophers of the 20th/21st century, observing patterns and communicating with great care and attention to language, meaning and clarity, what he suspects is going on.

    RAWs approach to the questions confronting all American citizens, and so by default the entire planet, currently under the boot of the U.S.A, are critical alternative perspectives and insights desperately lacking from both the public and academic discourse, and that have new roads into almost every department of any existing academic center you care to think of. Yet, what i find most stimulating about RAW and his ideas circles around his fierce independence and adherence to the principle of thinking for oneself, questioning everything and constantly reformulating based upon new data.

    Every human being on earth can benefit from literacy, and RAWs particular take on the human condition features the development of language and critical reasoning as tools to enable good functioning in a chaotic universe, inhabited by shadows, distractions, illusions and disinformation. I feel that RAW left us all with examples of how best to confront confusion, propaganda and low level information warfare, his life as a case study and scientific experiment, in the tradition of R. Buckminster Fuller and Dr John Lilly, where they’re own mind-body system is recognized to be a scientific laboratory itself, and so the nervous system and linguistic operating system also can be seen as scientific instruments.

    Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

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  • Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication Applied to DNA Sequencing

    If we could have James Joyce and Robert Anton Wilson in the mix we might get close to something very really close to ‘the tale of the tribe’. With a focus on RAW’s book ‘Coincidance’ in which he defines DNA based information theory through a Joycean measure of the redundancy of information, poetry as information, political speeches as low. love, fly.

     

    Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication Applied to DNA Sequencing

    Nobody knows which sequencing technology is fastest because there has never been a fair way to compare the rate at which they extract information from DNA. Until now.
    kfc 04/02/2012
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    One of the great unsung heroes of 20th-century science is Claude Shannon, an engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories during its heyday in the mid-20th century. Shannon’s most enduring contribution to science is information theory, which underpins all digital communication.
    In a famous paper dating from the late 1940s, Shannon set out the fundamental problem of communication: to reproduce, at one point in space, a message that has been created at another. The message is first encoded in some way, transmitted, and then decoded.

    Shannon’s showed that a message can always be reproduced at another point in space with arbitrary precision provided noise is below some threshold level. He went on to work out how much information could be sent in this way, a property known as the capacity of this information channel.

    Shannon’s ideas have been applied widely to all forms of information transmission with much success. One particularly interesting avenue has been the application of information theory to biology–the idea that life itself is the transmission of information from one generation to the next.

    That type of thinking is ongoing, revolutionary, and still in its early stages. There’s much to come.
    Today, we look at an interesting corollary in the area of biological information transmission. Abolfazl Motahari and pals at the University of California, Berkeley, use Shannon’s approach to examine how rapidly information can be extracted from DNA using the process of shotgun sequencing.

    The problem here is to determine the sequence of nucleotides (A, G, C, and T) in a genome. That’s time-consuming because genomes tend to be long–for instance, the human genome consists of some 3 billion nucleotides or base pairs. This would take forever to sequence in series.
    So the shotgun approach involves cutting the genome into random pieces, consisting of between 100 and 1,000 base pairs, and sequencing them in parallel. The information is then glued back together in silico by a so-called reassembly algorithm.

    Of course, there’s no way of knowing how to reassemble the information from a single “read” of the genome. So in the shotgun approach, this process is repeated many times. Because each read divides up the genome in a different way, pieces inevitably overlap with segments from a previous run. These areas of overlap make it possible to reassemble the entire genome, like a jigsaw puzzle.

    That smells like a classic problem of information theory, and indeed various people have thought about in this way. However, Motahari and co go a step further by restating it more or less exactly as an analogue of Shannon’s famous approach.

    They say the problem of genome sequencing is essentially of reproducing a message written in DNA, in a digital electronic format. In this approach, the original message is in DNA, it is encoded for transmission by the process of reading, and then it is decoded by a reassembly algorithm to produce an electronic version.

    What they prove is that there is a channel capacity that defines a maximum rate of information flow during the process of sequencing. “It gives the maximum number of DNA base pairs that can be resolved per read, by any assembly algorithm, without regard to computational limitations,” they say.

    That is a significant result for anybody interested in sequencing genomes. An important question is how quickly any particular sequencing technology can do its job and whether it is faster or slower than other approaches.

    That’s not possible to work out at the moment because many of the algorithms used for assembly are designed for specific technologies and approaches to reading. Motohari and co say there are at least 20 different reassembly algorithms, for example. “This makes it difficult to compare different algorithms,” they say.

    Consequently, nobody really knows which is quickest or even which has the potential to be quickest.

    The new work changes this. For the first time, it should be possible to work how close a given sequencing technology gets to the theoretical limit.

    That could well force a clear-out-dead-wood from this area and stimulate a period of rapid innovation in sequencing technology.

    Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1203.6233: Information Theory of DNA Sequencing

    http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27689/