Category: James Joyce

A Response to some current events (Sopa, wikileaks, Joyce, Pipa)

A Response to some current events.

A Joke for January 2012:

“What are you in for, buddy?” said the Bad Bwoy

“I got drunk and drove my car into a breast implant centre, killing two pedestrians and injuring six women because my wife planned to have em’ removed, i got 4 years.” Pipa replied… “what are you in for?”

“I shared the biggest ever batch of classified documents about the inner workings of global governments, corporations and banks, I just got out of the hole where they mentally tortured me. I’m in for life, me.” said the Bad Bwoy.

“And you, hey, you, what you in for kid?” Pipa asked the third prisoner.

“I downloaded the complete Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars movies for my grandma, I got five years”

“What!”

Joyce and Pipa

While the copyright on the major works of the Irish Genius James Joyce expired on the 1st January 2012, moving them into the public domain, to my delight, the rest of the world’s literature, film, music, arts and business are threatened by Sopa and Pipa, exaggerated draconian laws which like most bad policy, in fact, work to increase the confusion and do little to curb the problem. I wonder…is Joyce having the last laugh at us all stumbling around within the English language networks and webs, meanwhile, surrounded by the cloaking tech-cloud of all languages, translation tools, and nearly all combinations of languages and possible phrases, slang and everything under the sun, together swirling around in cyberspace, copying itself into a giant bubbling soup, our internet, like Joyce’s Wakean ‘nat’ language, seeking replication and interuption, new combinations.

Tony Bliar: Sports Chimp

I saw that old cheating chimp Tony Blair in a disgusting news item from the even more disgusting, to me, Time magazine reporting his sport campaign that got me hopping mad there for a few minutes yesterday (Jan. 18th) but soon, I realized, he’s not worth shedding many finger strokes over is he? (do I look bovverd?) so I skip the two-faced Bush puppy, war monger-lyer, and move on…Name calling always feels better while typing than reading afterwards.

Faith-Based

Many words have been shed on the general troubles in the middle East, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan. It’s complex, I can say that much. Yet I would repeat here my shared hope, somewhat riffing on something I heard from uncle Bob once, the general idea that if all sides in these conflicts were to drop their conflicting–equal and opposite religious faith–which tells them that they and they’re group, party, or nation, whatever and only they’re group, party or nation, whatever; know the divine holy truth, then, maybe, some progress might be made in sharing the abundance of resources surrounding them.

Negotiating towards making global trade, shared resources, without being dictated too based upon some out-of-date scripture or totalitarian spy state system that embodies similar religious ‘faith based’ ideology, such as: trust in your government and one nation under surveilance. O.K

The problem of faith-based government, meanwhile, gestates in the west causing equal havoc and confusion. Not checking the facts for yourself can leave you with piles of useless, empty bonds, useless laws and law enforcement and, a self-destructive industry built upon munitions, warfare and what Bucky Fuller aptly calls ‘Killingry’. Wake up, think for yourself, stop the war, stop the cuts.

Rupert Sopadoch

That of all the scum bags to come out in support of the ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ Rupert Murdoch crawled out from a stone and said (tweeted?) something uninformed and typically volatile on the issue, how do these damn papers and news websites publish his words without reminding us of the recent Newscorp Phone Hacking Scandal? How contradictory his words seem, to me, in the light of facts about that case.

I implore my readers and friends to boycott the entertainment industry as far as the super majors are concerned, and at your own discretion, but, please be conscious of the fact that when you buy movie tickets, and DVD’s and CD’s from the Major labels and production factories your supporting them and their ilk, you are what you buy into, Food, clothing, drinks, music, entertainment, everything you interact with. Nobody is perfect, but make an effort to think. A new war sounds like fighting talk, but a war metaphor is invoked here, this war, to me, started when entertainment industry stared ‘fattening frogs for snakes’ as the saying goes.

(slight rant) It started, I reckon, when the no-playing motherfuckers in the entertainment business started war/relations with those who challenged they’re authority, the content providers, and so begun signing artists and projects based upon they’re commercial viability opposed to artistic merit (e.g see the latest incarnation: Simon Cowell) and openly attacking any and all alternative entertainment culture (see counter counter-culture history) eventually co-opting them to jive with the slick super-global corporate model, presenting watered down snips trickled out to specific segments of the public in pre-meditated programming, interspersed with adverts and flashy edits, censors and any whims of whoever holds the money, at least, thas’ I see it, after this recent Sopa/Pipa malarchy and the Hollywood, Pop Music industry and Book publishing house support for an incredibly ill thought out and dangerous set of new laws.

Rollingstone leaks

There’s a great interview with Julian Assange in Rollingstone Magazine which, for me, backs up the reasons I like and support Wikileaks in their work, and Assange as an individual who seems totally committed to his work, tha I find mind boggling in its brevity and daring and staright up genius. The global village crisis as defined by Assange reminds me of hagbard Celine’s Law ‘National security is the chief cause of National insecurity’.

This same sentiment, I think, can be distilled from two recommended sources, Cory Doctorow’s excellent presentation ‘The coming war on general computation‘ at the CCC 2011 conference, and Mark Pesce’s brilliant book/on-line interface ‘Nextbillionseconds’. Both of these network minded individuals deploy a sense of optimism and factual knowledge in their illuminating communications. Both reflect the benefits and the migration of information towards ‘open networks’ and the ‘copy and copy and copy’ nature of networks. Thankfully their exciting and rich language outlines the context of Sopa/Pipa and other ‘net censorship’ projects. Very fresh, highly recommended.

Some of their work draws parallels, to my mind, with the war on some drugs and pharmacological Inquisition. Once again we have policy and laws made by people who have very little experience and knowledge of the field, the abuse of generalized terms, ambiguous phrases and disproportionate punishments for potential offenders. I think that Cory has mentioned this connection, emphasizing the drug war without end, like the war on terrorism without end, defined by who, we may ask? and how? As the boundaries between the chemical and the digital and biological blur, this connection between internet prohibition and drug prohibition may fuse into a general ‘information prohibition’.

I think it’s not in the nature of self-owning humanity, in the midst of a rupture or–information explosion—to stop copying, the shit’s gotten everywhere now and cannot be put back inside any Genii bottle or doggy doo bag. The shits already spread all over the bag and the smell will probably never go away.

Peace out peeps, steve fly

Steven James Pratt

January 19, 2012
Grand Deft Mamalujo and Joycean computer games 2012

My google alert just alerted me to a New Yorker artcle by Mark O’Connell called ‘has James Joyce been set free?’ which overviews the recent changes and probable ramifications of the copyright expiring on some-but-not-all of his work.

Towards the end of the article Mark writes something very interesting to me, today, whereby he describes how his off-handed joke to a friend about a James Joyce first-person-shooter game, gestates into pipe-dreams about a Ulysses inspired game. A little bit like Grand Theft Auto, but set in a Joycean world.

Yes, yes, I say YES. This ‘Joycean computer game world’ might be the best idea, next to my own, of course, that I have heard this year so far…once again…Joycean computer games, or to explain a bit more precisely: the interactive visual translation of his languaging engine could lead us into a literary inspired exploration of great literature, a new way of reading, a whole new style, and have it begin with the great master and grand architect James Joyce.–Steve.

“Sean Latham agrees that there will now be somewhat less quality control on Joyce publications, but sees it as not such a terrible development, pointing out that no one is much concerned about there being too many editions of Dickens or Shakespeare. As with most advocates of Joyce’s work, he thinks anything that might bring it to a wider readership should be welcomed. When I made a joke about the possibility of a first-person-shooter video game of “Finnegans Wake” hitting the stores in 2012, he mentioned that he himself has had pipe dreams about a “Ulysses” game. “I have an undergraduate student,” he said, “and we fantasize about exactly how such a thing might be devised. I know there is a Jane Austen video game being designed, so a ‘Ulysses’ video game can’t be far behind.” If any game developers happen to be reading this, I hope they take note. A simulated ramble around Edwardian Dublin—a sort of Grand Theft Auto without the theft or the autos—could make for a powerfully immersive gaming experience. It would almost be worth doing just to see how Stephen Joyce might react.– Mark O’Connell

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/01/james-joyce-public-domain.html#ixzz1jQf2CCtE

.”…and their farthing dip and read a letter or two every night before going to sleep in the twilight, a capitaletter for further auspices on their old one page codex book of old year’s eve 1132, M.M.L.J. old style, their Senchus Mor by Mrs Shemans, final buff lunch edition, and Lally through their gangrene spentacles and all the good they did in their time for Roe and O’Mulconry a Conry ap Mul or Lap ap Morion and Buffler ap Matty Mac Gregory for Marcus on Podex by Daddy de Wyer, old bagabroth, and one by one and sing a mamalujo.–James Joyce, the Mamalujo vignette, taken from an early draft of Finnegans Wake.

January 14, 2012
Joyce Pound Shaw and Ulysses in Porno-mags

SNIPPET FROM: An end to bad heir days: The posthumous power of the literary estate

By Gordon Bowker

The question of rights in Joyce’s work was a fraught one even during his lifetime. Fearing prosecution, no one would publish Ulysses complete and unabridged until Sylvia Beach, the American bookseller in Paris, bravely did so in 1922. But Joyce’s notoriety attracted pirates , and at one time he was unprotected by good contracts or good law. In November 1925, he found that without his permission Ulysses was being published serially in the magazine Two Worlds by Samuel Roth, the New York pornographer. His protests went unheeded. Roth simply sent a cheque for $1000 which Joyce refused to cash.

Among his literary friends and supporters, only Ezra Pound and Bernard Shaw were unsympathetic. Pound said that Joyce had only himself to blame for not registering his copyright in America. He advised him “to write letters to the press denouncing Roth”, or alternatively, “organise a gang of gunmen to scare [him] out of his pants”. But Roth, he warned, was a ruthless capitalist driven by avarice, not easily stopped.

Joyce was incensed, and with the aid of friends composed a letter of protest which was circulated among writers, attacking unjust American copyright law. Pound refused to sign, as did Shaw, who suspected a Joycean stunt.

READ ON HERE

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/an-end-to-bad-heir-days-the-posthumous-power-of-the-literary-estate-6285277.html

January 7, 2012
Some Joyce/Pound ‘News’ items…
The Politics of Modernist Poetics: Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell and Imagism:

Imagism was the poetry of directness and distillation championed by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell in the first years of the 20th century, reacting against the flowery verse of late Romanticism and urging poets to look to earlier models—like Sappho in ancient Greece and Li Po in 8th century China—to create a poetry of precise and powerful images, without any superfluous words or ornaments.

http://poetry.about.com/b/2011/10/19/the-politics-of-modernist-poetics-ezra-pound-amy-lowell-and-imagism.htm

Great literature will live on with or without a prize

With readability the watchword for the Man Booker prize, it’s unlikely any of the literary greats would even get on to the shortlist
- Editorial
- The Observer, Sunday 16 October 2011
- - Adrian Searle
  - guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 November 2011 21.31 GMT
  - Article history
The real Alice … Alice Pleasance Liddell taken by Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery London

Lewis Carroll, or rather the fictive world of Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, is firmly embedded in our culture. I am surprised no one has made a religion out of Alice. Perhaps they have.

She is also very much at large in Tate Liverpool. Here she is, here she isn’t: in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and in Jorge Luis Borges; in Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit, and in the surrealist works of Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí. Alice captivated Virginia Woolf and Walt Disney, inspired Robert Smithson, Sigmar Polke and a host of better and worse visual artists. Characters from the Alice books, or rather their putative ancestors, can be found, according to Alberto Manguel (writing in a brilliant, short catalogue essay), in Hamlet and Don Quixote, in Kafka, Homer and the Bible. The influence of Carroll’s creation can be found in sci-fi, detective fiction and philosophy, in pre-Raphaelite painting and in hard-arsed conceptualism. You can’t shake Alice off.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/nov/02/alice-wonderland-tate-liverpool-review?newsfeed=true
November 3, 2011
TTOTT in 12 lines or less

TTOTT in TWELVE by Steve ‘fly agaric 23’ Pratt.

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

by Steven James Pratt

Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

(more…)

June 30, 2011
To confuse the newshounds

“To confuse the newshounds, he joked, the bride would be dressed as a lifeguard while the groom would wear green satin and a white veil and carry an orange umbrella.”

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0521/1224297422955.html

May 28, 2011
Just Like “Finnegans Wake,” But With Charts – Senate Committee Issues Report on Financial Crisis

http://blogs.forbes.com/timothyspangler/2011/04/16/just-like-finnegans-wake-but-with-charts-senate-committee-issues-report-on-financial-crisis/

“When i read the court proceedings in Joyce’s wake around page’s 572-576, i instantly thought about the court hearing that will come concerning the banking turmoil and crash affecting all humanity, especially the poor and displaced peoples, due to the international global financial system in place in 2009.–Steve fly.

James Joyce writes:

“This, lay readers and gentilemen, is perhaps the commonest

of all cases arising out of umbrella history in connection with the wood industries in our courts of litigation. D’Oyly Owens

holds (though Finn Magnusson of himself holds also) that so

long as there is a joint deposit account in the two names a

mutual obligation is posited. Owens cites Brerfuchs and Warren,

a foreign firm, since disseized, registered as Tangos, Limited,

for the sale of certain proprietary articles. The action which was

at the instance of the trustee of the heathen church emergency

fund, suing by its trustee, a resigned civil servant, for the

payment of tithes due was heard by Judge Doyle and also by a

common jury. No question arose as to the debt for which vouchers

spoke volumes. The defence alleged that payment had been made

effective. The fund trustee, one Jucundus Fecundus Xero

Pecundus Coppercheap, counterclaimed that payment was invalid

having been tendered to creditor under cover of a crossed cheque,

signed in the ordinary course, in the name of Wieldhelm, Hurls

Cross, voucher copy provided, and drawn by the senior partner

only by whom the lodgment of the species had been effected but

in their joint names. The bank particularised, the national misery

(now almost entirely in the hands of the four chief bondholders

for value in Tangos), declined to pay the draft, though there

were ample reserves to meet the liability, whereupon the trusty

Coppercheap negociated it for and on behalf of the fund of the

thing to a client of his, a notary, from whom, on consideration, he

received in exchange legal relief as between trusthee and bethrust,

with thanks. Since then the cheque, a good washable pink,

embossed D you D No 11 hundred and thirty 2, good for the figure

and face, had been circulating in the country for over thirtynine

years among holders of Pango stock, a rival concern, though not

one demonetised farthing had ever spun or fluctuated across the

counter in the semblance of hard coin or liquid cash. The jury (a

sour dozen of stout fellows all of whom were curiously named

after doyles) naturally disagreed jointly and severally, and the

belligerent judge, disagreeing with the allied jurors’

disagreement, went outside his jurisfiction altogether and ordered a

garnishee attachment to the neutral firm.” –

JAMES JOYCE. FINNEGANS WAKE:

Part:3 Episode:14 Page:575

http://acrillic.blogspot.com/2009/03/hot-is-for-humanitas-on-trial-crash-of.html

Steven James Pratt

May 7, 2011
Finnegans Wake and Banking Bastards

The bank particularised, the national misery
(now almost entirely in the hands of the four chief bondholders
for value in Tangos), declined to pay the draft, though there
were ample reserves to meet the liability, whereupon the trusty
Coppercheap negociated it for and on behalf of the fund of the
thing to a client of his, a notary, from whom, on consideration, he
received in exchange legal relief as between trusthee and bethrust,
with thanks. Since then the cheque, a good washable pink,
embossed D you D No 11 hundred and thirty 2, good for the figure
and face, had been circulating in the country for over thirtynine
years among holders of Pango stock, a rival concern, though not
one demonetised farthing had ever spun or fluctuated across the
counter in the semblance of hard coin or liquid cash. The jury (a
sour dozen of stout fellows all of whom were curiously named
after doyles) naturally disagreed jointly and severally, and the
belligerent judge, disagreeing with the allied jurors’
disagreement, went outside his jurisfiction altogether and ordered a
garnishee attachment to the neutral firm.
http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/Finnegan/viewpage.cgi?page=574

December 17, 2010
TTOTT WHEELS GO AROUNDAROTA
TTOTT WHEELS GO AROUNDAROTA

TTOTT WHEELS GO AROUNDAROTA

BALANCING THE EQUATIONS WITH TRIADS.

I view a part of my task in setting up a table of ttott correspondences as providing examples of how the tables can be used to create various effects. Both as study guides into historical, biographical work and as imagination guides into the tale of the tribe, and the new translations.

The triangular structure enables opposing characteristics of mildness and severity a point of resolution and of synthesis, a middle path that may recycle the energies back and around and in so doing balance the opposing forces. The general idea of dividing 30 characters into 10 sets of triangulated groups of three characters, for example, may provide a working model for a rough structure, as would 15 sets of waltzing duo’s of opposing forces or a ‘coincidance of contraries’ as Joyce put it in Finnegans Wake.

GEODESICS

I have developed number systems for working out the new maps, due to the possibility of multi-dimensional models at a latter stage of the project, whereby objects containing various symbols and images can be folded and enfolded. I have already experimented with a TTOTT Dodecahedron of 20 sides and 12 vertices, and in principle, the numbers 30, 60, 90,120 and 150 all render symmetrical objects upon which information may be presented, here I pay tribute to Buckminster Fuller, and Giordano Bruno.

THE TALLY OF THE TRIBE.

The set of 5 wheels I have designed each have 30 ‘nodes’ on their belt of concentric rings. I made them by choosing 5 major categories: Tailors, Theolo, Texts, Teachings, Totems (Human Beings, Spirits, Texts, Principles, Objects).

I have chose to recycle ‘T’ words and keep a running TTOTT structure to each heading and category I make. The TTOTT logo features four ‘T’s tilted to create a four way symmetry (+) with a circle placed central. If you pretend to say the word ‘T’ you’ll notice your tongue gets right up on your teeth, and if you make a repeated ‘T’ sound you may notice that you sound a little like a Hi-Hat cymbal, and, that you can repeat the letter ‘T’ faster and with more control than possibly any other letter in the English Alphabet? This will have some correspondence to the spoken word and spoken drum components to the class, but also keep the original TTOTT (the tale of the tribe) intact.

Giordano Bruno used the number 30 often when constructing his wheels and wheels within wheels. Although unlike Bruno, my belts are so far only attenuated to the TTOTT matter, and simply borrow the use of the number 30 and the idea of putting lists of things on concentric rings, 5 in total, producing 150 nodes, or images in Bruno’s model, that I should add seems incredibly more complex and refined than my wheels. Reading Bruno recently led me to revisit the idea of having 30 things on revolving tables, something I used to anchor some themes in an early edition of my book: World Piss: 30 seals and the spore of the words.

All the characters that follow Bruno chronologically can appear on the wheels that he inspired, together with Giambattista Vico, (another philosopher of the revolutionary hermetic renaissance tradition), the tribal characters can ride the wheel, the turning tables of correspondences, and so unify in that movement, that ever-changing sensibility and decentralized and rotational wisdom. A revolutionary force.

CONNECTING CYCLES AND CIRCUITS

The tale of the tribe must be a connected network, otherwise it is useless. A new team of nodal points, shared swarms that link together. The goal of a hologramic network, a poem, novel, screenplay, album, performing overlapping functions, working together.

The triple spiral symbolizes the rotational and spiral nature of the connected works of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, the triad or delta that symbolizes femininity and the triple goddess. Vico and Joyce and Nietzsche feed off the spiraling principles of recorsi. Giordano Bruno and his “Memory Wheels” plus Giambattista Vico and his “Cycles of Ages”, Frederich Nietzsche and the “Eternal Return”, Ernest Fenollosa and the omni-directional radiance of “Chinese Symbolism”, William Butler Yeats and his dynamic “Gyres” and “Unity of Being” and ‘Symbolism’, Ezra Pound and his “Revolutionary Calendar” and ‘Ideogramic method of juxtaposition’, James Joyce and his spiral powered “coincidance of contraries & resolution of opposites”, Buckminster Fuller and the moving “Synergistic” principles. Meanwhile Alfred Korzybski and his “General Semantics”, Marshall McLuhan and his “Global Village Tribes”, Orson Welles and his “Neurological Cinematic Relativity”, Claude Shannon and “Information Theory” and other recurring geniuses and their additional contributions to humanity intersect with connecting threads represented by Dr. Wilson. In my opionion at their most potent when writing on Joyce: the mother-load of compressed hermetic wisdom.

THE TURNING OF THE TRIBE

The new maps and seals I present are a work in progress and as far as I know a unique way of processing the information, and potentially a relatively simple and sharable method for others to conduct similar research.

I would like to present a kind of Top Trumps challenge to create an equally revolutionary belt of innovative thinkers, or simply use any combination of belts on any grouping of things that you may wish, make it new! Bio-seasonal, calendrical, astrological and cosmological belts for example, may add many useful functions, the possibilities are literally endless with this, but I have chose to stack and pack a krewe that I believe represent the tale of the tribe as defined by Dr. Wilson, quite a bunch’, to perhaps provide a new platform for collaborative investigations, and new interpretations. Nodes or units of distilled cultural inheritance.

Tailors, Theolo, Texts, Teachings, Totems (Human Beings, Spirits, Texts, Principles, Objects). v1.0
1. “Alighieri, Dante” Agnosticism Arrow Atem-Re Avision
2. “Bruno, Giordano” Buddhism Binocular Baal Book Of The Law
3. “Crowley, Aleister” Cinema Verite’ Cup Circe Cantos
4. “Dick, Philip K.” Deconstructionism Disk Dionysis Divine Comedy
5. “Escher, M.C” Epistemology Earring Eris Everything is Under Control
6. “Fuller, Buckminster” Fourth Way Flag Findabair Flying Saucers
7. “Gurdjieff, G.I” General Semantics Glasses Ganesha Gulliver’s Travels
8. “Hesse, Herman” Hologrammic Prose Headdress Horus Holographic Universe
9. “Ibsen, Heinrik” Information Theory Ink Ishtar Illuminatus Trilogy
10. “Joyce, James” Jungian Psychology Joystick Jove Jitterbug Perfume
11. “Korzybski, Alfred” Kabbalah Kettle Kallisti Knox Om Pax
12. “Leary, Timothy” Lullism Lamp Lugh Liber 777
13. “McLuhan, Marshall” Magick Mitten Ma’at Mass Psychology Of Fascism
14. “Nietzsche, Friederich” Neuro Linguistic Programming Nail Naga New Science
15. “Olson, Charles” Ontology Oblisk Osiris Open Society And Its Enemies
16. “Pound, Ezra” Pataphysics Pincer Prometheus Politics Of Ecstasy
17. “Quiggly, Carroll” Quantum Psychology Quilt Quetzalcoatl Quantum Psychology
18. “Reich, Wilhelm” Recorsi Rope Ra Recorsi
19. “Shannon, Claude” Synergetics Scissor Sarasvati Science and Sanity
20. “Tesla, Nikola” Tessellation Turntable Thoth Tale of The Tribe
21. “Unrah, Wes” Unity of Being Umbrella Utu Understanding Media
22. “Vico, Giambattista” Vorticism Viol Vishnu VALIS
23. “Welles, Orson” Witchcraft Wand Woden White Goddess
24. “X, Malcolm” Xenolinguistics Xylophone Xi Wang Mu Xo-psychology
25. “Yeats, W. Butler” Yin Yang Yurt Yu Huang Yajur Veda
26. “Zenji, Dogen” Zetetics Zip Zarathustra Zen
27. “Neumann, John Von” Modernism Mirror Aphrodite Book of Shadows
28. “Fenollosa, Ernesto” Ideogrammic Method Pipe Pan Ulysses
29. “Bandler, Richard” Eternal Return Breastplate Luna Cosmic Trigger
30. “Wiener, Norbert” Neuro-Logic Ring Aphrodite Critical Path
Monday, September 13, 2010

Fly Agaric 23 announces online RAW course

Steve “Fly Agaric” 23 has announced a new online course, “email to the tribe,” which will run from Sept. 20 through Nov. 5 and will feature weekly doses of multimedia; participants are asked to donate what they can.

Agaric explains, “Each week fly will provide a spread of multimedia for you to process, generally keeping in step with the program, encouraging a wide variety of conversation and focused feedback. Feel free to drop in and drop out, as you like.”

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Steven James Pratt
September 20, 2010
email to the tribe: a Maybe Logic Class by Fly Agaric 23

Fly Agaric 23

September 20 – November 5

email to the tribe
Homogrammic Prose

The tale of the tribe approximates a tale of humanity, or ‘tales’, a new global epic that must capture illuminating details from humanity and juxtapose them in a special way using special language (Hologrammic prose, the Hermetic style, Ideogrammic method, Joyce’s ‘epiphany’ etc.) Dr.Robert Anton Wilson crafted his tale of the tribe to suit, among other definitions; the architects of post-modem’ cyber-culture, reaching back to the renaissance and pulling up-tense to our decentralized–hyper connected–future present.

During a six week period, I-fly will share his open interpretations of the tale of the tribe, performing an on-line multimedia vortex of signals, dialed into James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Giordano Bruno, Marshall Mcluhan, ‘Bucky’Fuller, and RAW himself.

email to the tribe will reprocess communications from across time, and produce new maps, new metaphors, and mold new memes that help forward the tale of the tribe and the RAW wisdom oozing out from all quarters.

Each week fly will provide a spread of multimedia for you to process, generally keeping in step with the program, encouraging a wide variety of conversation and focused feedback. Feel free to drop in and drop out, as you like.

EMAIL TO THE TRIBE: WEEKLY PRESCRIPTION.

WEEK ONE – WHEELS AND CYCLES (Sep 20-26)
The wheels of the tribe go around and around.
WEEKLY DOSE: Decentralized and Rotational Map Warfare.

WEEK TWO – GENERAL EPIPHANY (Sep 27-3rd October)
Hologrammic Prose and meaningful common speech
WEEKLY DOSE: RAW-FLY interviews. (Oct 4-10)

WEEK THREE – IDEOGRAMMIC FULLERENE (Oct 11-17)
The synergy of history
WEEKLY DOSE: Vicosahedron and Canto LXVI. Open Source History.

WEEK FOUR – GLOBAL FEEDBACK (Oct 18-24
If its not connected its useless
WEEKLY DOSE: Shannanigums Wave & Future Present.

WEEK FIVE – CINEMA OF UNITY (Oct 25-31)
Moving pictures to TV/Internet
WEEKLY DOSE: Maybe Logic & RAW Multimedia.

WEEK SIX – THE TALE OF THE CYBERNET (Nov 1-5)
My-wiki-face-twitter
WEEKLY DOSE: Work of the tribe. email to the tribe.

COURSE TEXTS: Recorsi by Robert Anton Wilson.

• $Pay-What-You-Can$ – Enroll Now •
[$50 recommended minimum price]

http://www.maybelogic.org/courses.htm

September 6, 2010