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Category: Marshall McLuhan

  • Three quarks for Muster Mark!: Sharing Mayelogic and other thoughts on internet.

    “we’ve arrived in Marshal McLuhan’s global village right on schedule. –Hyperpeople. http://markpesce.com/

    “Share the wealth and spoil the weal. Peg the pound to tom the devil. My time is on draught. –James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Pg. 579.

    The following is a dry-toast post, or warm-up for something a little dishy, I’m preparing for the – share this course – class; a new chapter in collaborative web-work and a kick in the balls for me by Mark Pesce, and his incredibly intelligent and brilliant writing, speaking and software engineering. A slowly growing group of master-craftspeople who are joined-together to work on a new-new book. I only recently finnished reading “hyperpeople” by Mark http://markpesce.com/ and realize that without an edit button, some of my previous posts may be a little naive now, and that this was put together in 2004 boggles the mind!

    I’m certainly swimming upstream here a little, out of the range of my own areas of technological understanding and experience, I’m roughly cutting out some quotes from Mark’s 2004 article titled ‘hyperpeople’ and arranging them into a blog-post where they can share a place among some other key principles I take from Dr. Wilson’s ‘Tale of the tribe’ classes, and run with.

    If my contribution to this class from an ideological standpoint so far could be summed up its that James Joyce and Ezra Pound both achieved a new – hyperconnected – language of poetry and poetry of language, that I feel, gives us a well connected historical axis, or model, from which to construct a new kind of text, a new book and a new language, that may or maynot be html code, social networks and the interneting – world wide web – itself.

    I don not propose that we create a new Finnegans Wake or a new Cantos but instead think about Joyce’s next project, his book of the day, what would that book read like? possibly a balance and response to his wild-book of the night? What would that be like? And from Pound I would draw attention to his methodological introduction of Historical matter, his treatment of cultural fragments in an Epic poem or Tale of the Tribe, a tale of all Humanity, we can learn structure and hyperconnectivity from these two great books of shared knowledge. The rest of the tale of the tribe, as defined by RAW seems to be primarily concerned with the work of Pound and Joyce. I want to share, more specifically my interpretations of some of these ideas about alphabet and ideogram, as it becomes a natural extension from current research.

    “Shares in guineases! There’s lovely the sight! Surey me, man
    weepful! Big Seat, you did hear? And teach him twisters in
    tongue irish. –James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, pg. 361″

    “Nowt better than share (Mencius)
    nor worse than a fixed charge.” –EZRA POUND, Canto LXXXIX.

    “Nietzsche‘s view on eternal return is similar to that of Hume: “the idea that an eternal recurrence of blind, meaningless variation—chaotic, pointless shuffling of matter and law—would inevitably spew up worlds whose evolution through time would yield the apparently meaningful stories of our lives. This idea of eternal recurrence became a cornerstone of his nihilism, and thus part of the foundation of what became existentialism.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche#Eternal_return

    “(the night we will remember) for to share our hard suite of affections with
    thee. –-James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, pg. 432

    “Nietzsche said that history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as folly. George Santayana said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And Einstein believed the definition of insanity to be “repeating the same act, expecting different results.” To these I must add one more: Hollywood loves a sequel. —Mark Pesce, Hyperpeople.

    “She would make the great sacrifice. Her every effort would be to share his thoughts. –James Joyce, Ulysses, Nausicaa.


    “When the tens of thousands of “amateur” productions do battle, on the level playing field of global digital superdistribution, with the few “professional” productions, the “amateurs” will win. Every time. Allways. Mark Pesce, Hyperpeople.

    “Skunk. And fare with me to share with me. –-James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, pg. 365.

    “monopolists, obstructors
    of knowledge/obstructors of distribution.”
    Cf Bucky Fuller, who sez much the same
    and blames continuing squalor and war on
    “ignorance, greed, fear and zoning laws. –Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, Recorsi 2005.”

    “Gnutella is less efficient than Napster, but, because there’s no centralized server (every computer on a Gnutella file-sharing network acts as both a server and a client) there’s no single point that can be shut down. Or sued out of existence. Mark Pesce, Hyperpeople.

    “Bruno‘s cosmology is marked by infinitude, homogeneity, and isotropy, with planetary systems distributed evenly throughout. Matter follows an active animistic principle: it is intelligent and discontinuous in structure, made up of discrete atoms. This animism (and a corresponding disdain for mathematics as a means to understanding) is the most dramatic respect in which Bruno’s cosmology differs from what today passes for a common-sense picture of the universe.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_bruno

    “…the “decentralized indexing”, meant that someone, somewhere had already figured out how to combine the best feature of Gnutella (its decentralized search mechanism) with the best of BitTorrent (it’s ability to turn the Internet into a very efficient system for sharing files). – Mark Pesce, Hyperpeople.

    “As Weiner wrote, ‘great poems contain high information, Political speeches contain little. — Dr. Robert Anton Wilson.

    “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. Mark Pesce, Hyperpeople.

    “I’ll put in a shirt time if you’ll get through your shift and between us in our shared slaves, brace to brassiere and shouter to shunter, we’ll pull off our working programme. Come into the garden guild and be free of the gape athome! –James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Pg. 476.

    “On the left are values of f(t) at the sampling points. The integral on the right will be recognized as essentially the nth coefficient in a Fourier-series expansion of the function F(ω), taking the interval –W to W as a fundamental period. This means that the values of the samples f(n / 2W) determine the Fourier coefficients in the series expansion of F(ω). Thus they determine F(ω), since F(ω) is zero for frequencies greater than W, and for lower frequencies F(ω) is determined if its Fourier coefficients are determined. But F(ω) determines the original function f(t) completely, since a function is determined if its spectrum is known. Therefore the original samples determine the function f(t) completely. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem

    More than their good share of their five senses ensorcelled you would say themselves were, fuming censor, the way they could not rightly tell their heels from their stools as they cooched down a mamalujo by his cubical crib, as question time drew nighing and the map of the souls’ groupography rose in relief within their quarterings –James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, pg. 476.


    “BitTorrent is an elegant answer for the “superdistribution” of data; it harnesses the millions of Internet-connected computers to create something greater than the sum
    its parts – a giant, distributed system for the distribution of any type of digital
    information. Mark Pesce, Hyperpeople.

    “And to know the share from the charge
    (scala altrui)
    God’s eye art’ou, do not surrender perception. –EZRA POUND. From CANTOS CXII

    “In information theory, entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable. The term by itself in this context usually refers to the Shannon entropy, which quantifies, in the sense of an expected value, the information contained in a message, usually in units such as bits. Equivalently, the Shannon entropy is a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable. The concept was introduced by Claude E. Shannon in his 1948 paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy

    “Instead, all computers which want to get access to some data are considered “peers,” meaning all are equal participants in any exchange of data. Mark Pesce, Hyperpeople.

    “The source coding theorem for symbol codes places an upper and a lower bound on the minimal possible expected length of codewords as a function of the entropy of the input word (which is viewed as a random variable) and of the size of the target alphabet. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_source_coding_theorem

    “The medium is the message” means the actions of a community will differ in kind if that community is connected via telephone rather than radio, or email rather than television. Mark Pesce, Hyperpeople.

    …the alphabet vs. the equation….?

    …language as Class Warfare…? –Dr. Robert Anton Wilson (The Tale of the Tribe).

    “And saved up his pay money,
    and kept on savin’ his pay money,
    And bought a share in the ship,
    and finally had half shares,
    Then a ship –EZRA POUND, Canto XII.

    McLuhan used James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake as a major inspiration for this study of war throughout history as an indicator as to how war may be conducted in the future.
    Joyce’s Wake is claimed to be a gigantic cryptogram which reveals a cyclic pattern for the whole history of man through its Ten Thunders. Each “thunder” below is a 100-character portmanteau of other words to create a statement he likens to an effect that each technology has on the society into which it is introduced. In order to glean the most understanding out of each, the reader must break the portmanteau into separate words (and many of these are themselves portmanteaus of words taken from multiple languages other than English) and speak them aloud for the spoken effect of each word. There is much dispute over what each portmanteau truly denotes.
    McLuhan claims that the ten thunders in Wake represent different stages in the history of man:[50]

    * Thunder 1: Paleolithic to Neolithic. Speech. Split of East/West. From herding to harnessing animals.
    * Thunder 2: Clothing as weaponry. Enclosure of private parts. First social aggression.
    * Thunder 3: Specialism. Centralism via wheel, transport, cities: civil life.
    * Thunder 4: Markets and truck gardens. Patterns of nature submitted to greed and power.
    * Thunder 5: Printing. Distortion and translation of human patterns and postures and pastors.
    * Thunder 6: Industrial Revolution. Extreme development of print process and individualism.
    * Thunder 7: Tribal man again. All choractors end up separate, private man. Return of choric.
    * Thunder 8: Movies. Pop art, pop Kulch via tribal radio. Wedding of sight and sound.
    * Thunder 9: Car and Plane. Both centralizing and decentralizing at once create cities in crisis. Speed and death.
    * Thunder 10: Television. Back to tribal involvement in tribal mood-mud. The last thunder is a turbulent, muddy wake, and murk of non-visual, tactile man.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcluhan#The_global_village

    “F(ω) is determined if its Fourier coefficients are determined. – Shannon_sampling_theorem

    “Now let the centuple celves of my egourge as Micholas de Cusack calls them, of all of whose I in my hereinafter of course by recourse demission me by the coincidance of their contraries reamalgamerge in that indentity” JJ FW, Part:1 Episode:3 Page:49,

    “Media change the way we perceive the world, transforming the way we think, feel, and behave. Mark Pesce, Hyperpeople.

    “Joyce himself parodies this preoccupation with the artefactual value of the book at length in Finnegans Wake in regards to a certain letter, discovered by a hen in a dunghill in an advanced state of decomposition. This letter, which is said to belong to A.L.P., is subjected to extensive genetic analysis. — http://web.ff.cuni.cz/~lazarus/jjht_inventions.html

    “the k’ao ch’eng is according to harvest,
    the tax as a share of something produced –Ezra Pound, Canto LXXXV.

    “alphabet/ideogram
    joyce/pound
    shannon/mcluhan
    TV/Internet. –RAW

    “Tell us in franca langua. And call a spate a spate. Did they never sharee you ebro
    at skol, you antiabecedarian? –-James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, pg. 198

    Faith in Science: Scientists Search for Truth.
    By W. Mark Richardson, Gordy Slack
    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8f0g_yOMslwC&lpg=PT113&dq=mark%20pesce&pg=PT113&output=embed

    Cognitive Wireless Networks: Concepts, Methodologies and Visions…
    By Frank H. P. Fitzek, Marcos D. Katz
    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PnlUctqJnbcC&lpg=PA76&dq=mark%20pesce&pg=PA76&output=embed

    The Spirit of the Internet: Speculations on the Evolution of Global …
    By Lawrence Hagerty
    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fvUzs4C7i2AC&lpg=PA9&dq=mark%20pesce&lr=&pg=PA9&output=embed

    The Gutenberg galaxy: the making of typographic man
    By Marshall McLuhan
    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y4C644zHCWgC&lpg=PP1&dq=mcluhan&lr=&pg=PA275&output=embed

    Steven James Pratt

  • THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSENGER

    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oMBn4mwLP_MC&lpg=PA104&dq=joyce%20mcluhan&pg=PA104&output=embed

    Steven James Pratt

  • SRS is for SUN RA SYSTEM

    So, i just continued my research and writing about Sun Ra. Found some new sources and resources, and found myself asking more questions…
    More mid-week, enjoy.

    Love
    fly…

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

    (more…)

  • Freestyle pt. 2

    Newtown?
    McLear Dream Solliquoy (Final sequence)
    The night of the 1st of August 1936, Mclear’s dream.

    Mclear’s father drinks some tea from a chalice, and then climbs a ladder set against a house to fetch down the toad that is stuck up high, the pet toad of his cousin, and, while on his way down he slips, on a snake mimicking the wrong of a ladder, falls and crushes his head, and the toad in the process. Brains, Toad slime, jewels and flies merge together.

    Mclear’s cousin turns into Alice through the looking glass, in wonderland, and shrinks down to the size of a small rodent, she begins munching on Lotus petals that have suddenly sprung up around his father/mothers corpse, where a fly swoons and across the body that is now wearing a white gown and has breasts

    A bomb comes whistling out of the sky, changing into a figure resembling Cuchulain, a giant with twelve arms, and each hand holding an object: A boomerang, a Robert Johnson 78’ disk, a golden jewel encrusted chalice, a smoking pipe styled into the shape of a toad, a totem pole, A telephone receiver/speaker, a printing stamp-press, a calendar, an Umbrella, A TV set, a Video-Camera. The smoking pipe was now in the giants mouth and the clouds of smoke drifted up and up to become huge clouds, nebulous, ten miles high or more.

    One cloud takes the form of a giant mushroom and descends back to the scene of the accident, pitching itself next to the androgenous corpse. The mushroom then morphs again into a small Santa Claus doll, and proceeds to administer coca-cola to the body, pouring it up the nostrils and letting it fizz all over the face, the body begins to shake.

    [due to a disturbance in the dream sequence, ultimately down to an early lecture with G.K Chesterton, but setting his alarm clock one full hour earlier than he needed]
    Mclear’s father/mother, his cousin and himself were now up and running from the house, jumping away from the garden on pogo sticks, away from where the toad-corpse ooze had now released a green fog into the air, that set everybody laughing uncontrollably.
    Arriving in a wooded area they eventually stop and slump down onto the ground leaning against a birch tree. Suddenly a wheel rolls into the clearing in front of them with a golden apple lodged inside the axis. Then, as Mclear recalls his dream, ‘we all eat a small piece of the apple and go sit down back under the tree again’

    In a flash the dreaer has morphed into a Mushroom stood right there in the spot where he once sat. His Father/mother had transformed into a fly, and his cousin Mary changed quickly from his grandmother, then to a toad who also sits where she once sat in the wooded clearing.

    At this point Mclear describes the sense of eternity passing, then a jumping of perceptions between the three shapeshifters, triangulated in their positions. The mushroom had only single sight, a tiny periscope inside a wart, but it released a constant humming sound that Mclear heard as the sound of a tribal drum in his head when he looked at the fly and the toad looking at him.

    Suddenly Mclear experienced total ESP with the others, plus he heard voices from the tress and the foliage and the leaves; a low chatter beneath the canopy, they sat motionless, in awe of the infinite stars above them.

    In a flash, the fly lands on the mushroom, licks it, flies off towards the toad, who swiftly, and Ninja like, snatches the drunken fly out of the air, and swallows it in one gulp.
    Cuchulain returns and lands in front of the Toad with a drawn sword and slices it in two. Gold and jewels fall-out from the toads head while the fly shakes, buzzes, flinches a little, staggers up to gather itself and flies off, only a few feet to then land on a floating lotus flower upon the pond, and is swallowed by a huge salmon, which then in turn is fished out by Cuchulain and set free, plus Cuchulain discovers a golden ring inside the salmon that fits perfectly with his elaborate zoological breastplate.
    Ants came marching into the clearing and gathered up the toads parts, and some Lapis Lazuli jewels and carried them back to their nest, where together with a beetle, a snake and a unknown miniature jellyfish-scorpion creature, they remade the toad with spittle, venom and special green fungus.
    The toad jumps out of the nest and leaps back to the clearing, where he spits on the mushroom’s periscope, which then transforms the whole mushroom into a geodesic object, but still bejewelled crystallized and sparkling.
    Cuchulain returned from a gap in a nearby tree trunk, plucked the mushroom, put it in his red sack, and sprang off into the air again back to the town, where he fairly divided the crystalized mushroom up between all the towns people, everyone got a piece and said a prayer:

    Steven James Pratt
  • TTOTT is for The Tale of the Tribe: v1.0

    TTOTT is for The Tale of the Tribe: v1.0

    The Tale of the Tribe. [TOTT.]

    An ambiguous and widely missunderstood grouping of FIVE words, or four if you miss off THE’

    I think the phrase “A Poem including History” works as a helpful pointer. Finnegans Wake and the Cantos’

    Are each “The Tale of the Tribe” in their respective ways. “Illuminatus! Trilogy” too!

    These 3 texts when considered together may constitute a triangular structure, from which RAW’s TOTT SHINE most

    Brightly?

    Also the book by Michael Berstein [1980] “The Tale of the Tribe: The Modern verse epic of Ezra Pound.”

    Steers us once more toward uncle [EZ] who with [JJ] become the two primary exhibitors of

    RAW’s TOTT. [which i figure is NOT his final published book “email to the Universe”, but something much bigger

    woven and threaded throughout his books, and sombunall of his literary influences, an invisible landscape. ]

    So what i refer to as [RAW’s TOTT], as opposed to anybody else’s idea or conception/perception

    of the TOTT remains something we have yet to define. But he left us many clues. [rising drums and Cello’s]

    Maybe it requires a total revision of RAW’s entire catalogue

    With the new TOTT gloss, [best condensed at the back of his bookTSOG]

    To move closer to lifting this great ball of TOTT crystal IMHO.

    …the alphabet vs. the equation….?

    …language as Class Warfare…?

    Here’s a condensed paragraph from RAW, giving us
    Further clues:

    **I hereby acknowledge the debts my works owe to Remy de Gourmont,
    for his method of dissociation of ideas, to Alfred Korzybski, for his
    formulations of general semantics; to Richard Bandler, for his
    invension of neurolinguistic Programming; to Buckminster Fuller for his
    synergetics, to Claude Shannon and Norbert Weiner for their studies of
    control and communication between animals and/or machines; and to
    Ezra Pound for Ideogrammic Method.
    None of them deserve any blame for my errors or blunders.** -Robert Anton Wilson, email to the Universe.

    I would like to echo Bob’s sentiment here, as he does not deserve any blame for my earaws or blunterz.
    !

    And here we have a neat introduction to [RAW’s TOTT]compiled by the sparkling MLA.

    “==Tale of the Tribe==
    The first of Wilson’s MLA courses bridging the political,
    the social and the psychological, [[Tale of the Tribe]] promises to be a landmark
    journey with our dear Dr. Bob. Starring **Giordano Bruno, Giambatista Vico,
    Friederich Nietzsche, Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Alfred Korzybski,
    James Joyce, Buckminster Fuller, Claude Shannon** and **Marshall McLuhan** —
    the nucleus of the extraordinary minds that have helped shape the
    information age of 21st century and the mindscape of **Robert Anton Wilson.**
    Join Wilson as he explores the themes, minds and ideas of his forthcoming book, The Tale of the Tribe.–A.A MLA Admin.

    And here is a question by BOB,
    from the back of his book TSOG: The thing the ate the constitution,

    That i think crystalizes RAW’s TOTT,
    And deserves DAILY revision…

    What do Giordano Bruno, Giambatista Vico,
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound
    Alfred Korzybski, James Joyce, Buckminster Fuller,
    Claude Shannon, Marshall Mcluhan and Internet all have in
    common? You”ll find out. -TSOG.

    I have started doing this new work, condensing the nodle clusters

    From RAW’s work’s [the names of the characters to begin with]

    And started arranging them in different ways. [having searchable source’s has greatly inspired this posting]

    I feel that i have stepped over/through some boundaries in some sense,

    By cutting bits from RAW’s writing and sticking them together. [byte-ing RAW]

    But, with the strictest supervision, and with a community who can FEEDBACK

    with each other while doing so, we can basically continue RAW’s work,

    And study his structure, technique and methods?

    In some sense this new work of mine is nothing more than a collection of Robert Anton Wilson quotes.

    But unlike any other collection of RAW quotations,

    This one focuses on RAW’s Tale of the Tribe, the historical characters,

    who “make it new”.

    I hope the MLA, TRIBE, and everybody else can join this great

    Work in conception/perception.

    But for me this is just the beginning, the bare bones, an historical

    Kind of invetigation. [phase I]

    I wish for audio/visual components, and hyperlinking which help

    Make the words NEW.

    Maybe email is the best way to work this out in the initial stages?

    axistao@yahoo.com

    Sinceritas.

    Fly Agaric/Acrillic
    Steven James Pratt

    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,

    Steven James Pratt

  • M is for Monkey: Journey to the West

    “Well, it’s about Ezra Pound and James Joyce, whom I regard as the two major innovators of twentieth century literature. And oddly they both had a very powerful influence on Marshall McLuhan who has influenced how we think about all media, especially internet, even though internet didn’t begin to develop until after McLuhan was dead. – Robert Anton Wilson, speaking of his “Tale of The Tribe.” – RAW Utopia Interview 2001

    Classic Oriental theatre and picture/poems rendered into a Hip Opera. Monkey: Journey to the West, in (2007), and so on through the emerald jungle of Orientalism and Modernism, now glossed with wind and rain of Wikipedia, Google, Youtube, Google maps, blogs, hyperlight communications. Escaped the city on a train, like a Haiku through the wilderness between London and Manchester. New weather patterns. Next will be the Vedas, the Sutras, the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Popol Vuh, Finnegans Wake i hope, the classics made KNU. The Worlds classics. Here we have something that i boldly think constitutes a new paradigm shift, equivalent to mass enlightenment in the Buddhist sense, in some sense – illumination, lights, simply. If we could just choose to see it that way. Awaken to the lower lights. Greet these holographic entities and make them welcome, they are here to stay. Bonded by an undefined spirit behind the curtain, a hidden hand in mind: The tech support mist of mind. Monkeys in the mist. Fresh air rushes in-coming, the virus of language sneezed from outerspice. The end of word is HERE. burp!


    Monkey: Journey to the West Provides a new kind of band, and a new kind of Opera, a backdrop this week upon which to hang a bunch of important questions facing mankind: Virtual Reality and Oriental Reality. Who distributes it, how?

    “Peace comes of communication.”– Ezra Pound


    Every-things happening everywhere nowadays! Like in Finnegans Wake. So Knu pist modem to to show a bit of gnu-historical glow and knu-contextual flowing relationships sailing to our subject matter of eve’re:thing. See “Google”, “Wikipedia” etc. (The internet of things). The Oracle of surprise information.

    “We have speculated that the vacuum fluctuation of space-time is a holographic modular hierarchy whose individual levels posses properties in common with the King Wen sequence of the I Ching and morphology of DNA. – Terence and Dennis Mckenna, Invisible Landscape. mckenna.psychedelic-library

    The Epic tale Journey to the West, both in the 1580’s and the 2007’s spills out of the conventional stage box with wet and wild bardic spewing from all quarters, metamorphoses, telepathy, sympathetic magic, levitation, spells, Sacred Elixirs, Autopoiesis,love potions, telekinesis, sign language, teleportation, Crypto-zoological nightmares, wild psychedelic visions and alien voices, transbutation, animism, direct communication with space Gods, weather gods, insect gods, mountain Gods and MONKEY gods, Gorilla “Gods” all sorts of Nature “gods” often called AVATARS in the more Easterly quarters. Interplanetary sentient web 3, a flurry of Angels, a paradigm shift, a re-orientation and redefinition of our collective internet of things, our reality engines. Identity? Am i google now? If i think of it?



    “The idea of representative government after we overthrew the monarchy was: we’ll have representatives who will represent us. In the first place, they don’t represent us! They represent the corporations who pay their campaign finance. And in the second place we don’t need anybody to represent us. Now that we’ve got internet we can represent ourselves. So I think all those people should be thrown the hell out of office and forced to make a living as honest men and women do, rather than by lying to the gullible and selling them out to the corporations, and we can represent ourselves through internet.

    As a matter of fact, Buckminster Fuller–one of the most brilliant people of the twentieth century, often compared to Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin for the extent of the fields in which he was an expert, he was an expert in at least a dozen fields–one of his last books has that theme. He calls it desovereignization: getting rid of human representatives and representing ourselves though electronic media. So I am not as original as I sometimes think I am. – RAW Utopia Interview 2001



    Gorillaz are not the first virtual band they are one of the first really enlightened band, literally. They are light beings. Part human origin, part non-human, artificially represented as real (avatar): Spooks, Phantoms, Projections, alien hyperlight beings etc. Not of the word. Beings of Monkey magic-LIGHT. Gorillaz are Aliens from another dimension. They have landed again. They are mythical magical beings; they have a strange new hemisemi-fictionalized history, partly based on real flesh and bloody humans but humans who sometimes pretend and imitate themselves and so making them also satisfactorily “unreal” and so falsifyable, and so “Real” again! and around we go! but, they make up for this confusion, for me, with a very convincingly real presence when on the stage communicating through sound-waves and music. But writing about music is like blowing smoke rings about architecture so i’ll leave that for crumbling music press. Monkey: Journey to the West seems more Real and interactive and present NOW than most political Puppets on the world stage in 2007. The hologramic projection equipment and the magic (Peppers Ghost Technology) provide Gorillaz with Monkey Magic, new creation engines, partly programmed by a real Chinese master – Chen Shi-Zheng. Gorrilaz’ combine with the incredibly rich and incredibly vast portal of new discovery and rediscovery of The Orient, via Chen Shi-Zheng.

    Joyce’s Epiphany, McLuhan’s “Electronic Orientalism” and the human tech-support team helping to translate and propagate a new hyperlite from a newBudust’” Sutra. Follow the journey of Wu Cheng’en and his experiences with a totalitarian Chinese culture intolerant of great poetry in a similar way to how totalitarian America was mostly Intolerant of Ezra Pound and totalitarian Great Britain was Intolerant of Oscar Wilde and other great genius of world literature.

    Monsters and demons are trying to obtain immortality by eating flesh! This provides a large part of the plot in Monkey: Journey to the West. I am familiar with Immortality themes within some mythological contexts and some cannibalism in mythology and fairy lore may can be glossed as the trickery of prankster drug cultists who created “False” etymologies for certain species of sacred fruits to keep them hidden and hidden. Entheogens are chemical and biological candidates in for real ingredients within real wet dazzling “Immortality Elixirs” like Ayahuasca or other psychoactive brews, teas and snuffs. In both the (biological) reality of the damp forest and the freshly perfumed hillside and in the digitally remodeled virtual reality of the myth space/time including history Also see RAW’s essay on why Hannibal Lector would make a better President than George W. Bush!

    “The forces which produce the branch-angles of an oak lay potent in the acorn. Similar lines of resistance, half curbing the out-pressing vitalities, govern the branching of rivers and of nations. Thus a nerve, a wire, a roadway, and a clearing-house are only varying channels which communication forces for itself. This is more than analogy, it is identity of structure. – Ernest Fenollosa, Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.

    Monkey teached me to revisit the relationship between words and images and things. Poetry in the print media world now a unique kind of bridge-space between words and images. A GLUE that binds cultures, languages, history, religion, Law and science all together, a tale of a tribe, a modern verse epic, a cultural encyclopedia. See “The Cantos and Finnegans Wake! Something more than the sentencing masses. Monkey: Journey to the West has some of the qualities of a Modern verse epic and due to its 2007 web 2 re-release and digital transmission by hyperlight communication around the globe millions of times in a minute into outer-space/time; Monkey: Journey to the West (An OPERA feat. The Gorillaz), is something the pre-internet poets such as Joyce, Pound, Po and Crowley and hundreds more seemed to be dreaming of in their folded up catapillar form. The crystal ball of freely available classics.,

    Classics of world literature, poetry and tribal encyclopedias, e-post, e-modernism and the beginning of a new Global Theatre perhaps, the electronic age as the coming of the hyperlight age, youtube, facebook, myspace, google, wikipedia, flikr, photobucket, e-bay, and bluetoothing wireless “everyware” (Sterling 2006).
    Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. — Henry Louis Mencken

    Imagism in the early 20th Century was heavily influenced by the relatively unknown, Ernest Fenollosa partly revived by Robert Anton Wilson and more directly by Ezra Pound who famously included many pictograms or word/images in his grand synthesis “The Cantos”: A Globally oriented praxis of language and culture including Oriental cultures, especially Chinese languages. (which was a center study text in Wilson’s course “The Tale of the Tribe” at Maybelogic Academy in 2004. I have come around and around to thinking that uncle Bob encouraged others to read and re-read Pounds Cantos so as to be sufficiently equipped with a single bound poetic guide (an oracle) to help us and our new emerging multicultural global community (VILLAGE) and our own relative comprehension of “reality” and “History” to boot as we crawl through the sewage of the 20th into the new 21st century e.v.Finnegans Wake is the other single bound Oracle that Robert Anton Wilson recommends. I would add his “Illuminatus!” to make three blinding bound Oracles for better processing 21st century life.

    “For centuries, the epic tale of the Monkey King’s journey of enlightenment has been an omnipresent part of Chinese culture, delighting young and old with its heady mix of adventure, mystery and magic,” said the Manchester International Festival’s website. – cartridgemonkey.com

    Alphabet and ideogram meat again stuck in web 2, Finn again for humanity to move forwards again and to get around the obstacles and roadblocks blocking our communication canals again.

    I use the term Gorillaz‘ to mean Human beings and alien light beings, a part of the many collaborators who are Gorillaz tech-support mist in some sense, the production crew, the multiple personalities behind the metaphorical curtain of a 21st Century virtual band.

    Monkey: Journey to the West maybe a knu catalyst for a new paradigm shift in the western lands if we see it clearly due to the new means of community within which classic literature from the Orient and all over thw world can begin to weave its magic “binding” qualities. Everyware! And catalyze the sort of cultural exchange and feedback the modernists would have liked, i guess. The classics of Oriental culture translated for a Western world word 3 experiencing alphabet psychosis.

    “You cannot own the power and the magic of this world. It is always available, but it does not belong to anyone.” – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

    Fly Agaric 23 Wed 27 June 2007.

    “Internet belongs to the people that use it. Nobody has found an effective way of policing it, and they never will as far as I can see. Any way of controlling internet would involve creating a world government and the people who most want to censor opinions are the most opposed to world government. So they can’t do it that way. If they try to do it any other way they’ll wreck most major corporations that depend so much on internet to do business. So it can’t be done.

    Internet is going to remain free, and I believe, I’ve believed since I was in my early twenties, that everything that accelerates the flow of information and communication benefits the human race, and every communication jam damages us. So internet is the greatest tool, or device, or gimmick, or whatever you want to call it, for accelerating the flow of information between peoples. It is, I think, the most revolutionary force in the history of humanity since the invention of the wheel–especially when Asia and Africa get online in a major way. That’s what I really look forward to.” –RAW Utopia Interview 2001

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