So that the futures children
Know, without any doubt,
That we tried to do good!
Howdydoogood
The tale of the tribe
Like a mission to mars escape velocity
All history in one book
Earth mother nature
All humanity
Culture technology art
Laid out like the narrative
Comes from the collective
History itself
The process without subject
–26/06/26
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So what have we here then Steve? Tinkering with the AI again are we? I told you and warned you a thousand times about it and you just kept going and going and now look wot’ you’ve gone and done. Claiming it’s a bit ov’ a modern verse epic, but know full well it could never truly be the thing, as to our beingness and human struggle through time.Chatting to myself again, as Homo Promptus, in first person reflection space. The following series of essays are AI generated, spoiler alert. And I can already sense that slight frown and disappointment that I wasn’t hand crafting this big shebang, or rag-bag of notes. That’s under construction, in the meantime, this work is my contribution, an example of what I find interesting firstly, and also with luck what you dear reader, enjoy.
The subject matter reflects a purposeful choice, and works on a few different levels, both personal-historical and geographical meaning to me myself and I. For those that know me…the flesh and bone present author…will experience reading these articles in a different way to a total stranger. However I hope the unpredictability of the order and content within rings many bells at once, each effectively acting as an Epyllion (a mini modern epic) but, alas, lacking poetry turns of phrase and typographic experimentation, grammatical loop-da-loops and tricks of human authors with a pen or typewriter, battling digital algorithms and infernal averages. Hot stuff.
There’s something for everyone here, so at the least maybe give it a quick browse. In some sense this is a browsing document, a mini wikipedia world whipped up around this author’s ego, weird esoteric interests, fictional fancies, friends, family, hobbies, and a recurring theme: demonstrating the paradox of the tale of the tribe. Subjective experiences of mine, loves and some struggles, at the same time as containing historical forces (can we say facts without annoying too many people?). Leading, with luck, to distinguished science facts, methods, experiments, peer reviewed studies, when required, generously blended with my own mystical personal queries, carefully crafted and selected for you here. Feels a bit like cheating for an exam, producing all the goods to at least get a pass, but did I and do I really understand these Frankenstein’s Monster mash-ups? Who knows, here’s the results of my experiments. Hope you have a s much fun as I did.
In no particular order the articles feature such people and concepts as Rituals, Sports Mega Events, Economics, Beatboxing, Dutch, English, American History, Turntablism, Shakespeare, James Joyce, Typewriter Innovation, Lisbon Maru, Maj Frank Foley, AI, The Modern Verse Epic, Robert Anton Wilson, Ostriches, Countering Hate Speech, DIY Pot Hole Guide, Konnakol, Led Zeppelin, Swimming, Lightening, Thunder and the Brontic Logos, Magick, Tarot, LBJP, Drumming, Geronimo Pratt, Identity, McLuhan, Climate Science Solutions, The Black Country, Dutch Water Management, Story telling, John Sinclair, Street Art, Jazz, Stage Lighting, Causes Of War, Genealogy Writing, Digital I.D.J, Kim Stanley Robinson, thoughts on thoughts about thoughts.
Stupidity Disease?), Dresden Codex (miscalculated?)."The Sixty" / C-60 link).Finnegans Wake (pub. 1939), Yeats explores Gyres.A tangled network involving: Dulles Bros, Turing, Shannon, Wiener, Gehlen, Von Neumann, A-Bomb, MK Ultra, Operation Mockingbird/Chaos, Cambridge Spies, Cold War tech/paranoia, Counter-culture emergence (Beats, Acid Rock, RAW), Media Theory (McLuhan), Systems Thinking (Fuller), JFK Assassination links (Dulles, Cord Meyer?), Project Blue Book…
Our Histories Back 2009, Sixty 2011).Scratch History (espionage, treason…).Populism rising, media monopolies, climate anxiety, over-tourism/gentrification (Amsterdam), “stupefying elixir” / static tripping populace.
Sixty -> Deep Scratch).…name, address, DOB, occupation, media habits
predict what, and how accurately?
how to measure coercion
how to measure manipulation
how to measure prediction?
Claude Shannon’s Information theory, or
Von Neumann and Morgenstern’s Theory
Of Games, perhaps?
How to measure the degree to which an ad’
can influence human behaviour
voting habits, foreign policy, thoughts about sex?
how to measure critical thinking
the measure of humanity, of altruism
how do we measure benevolence and
what of truth and beauty
what about culpability?
what is the measure of a man?
A hierarchy of values could help us begin
to distinguish one from the other
but how, how how to measure unity?
what about limits
if everything is connected
is nothing connected too?
How to measure bad faith,
how to describe the conspiracy of big data robbers
spies and politicians?
just business as usual living in the free market world
of competitive capitalism
how can I describe such complexity,
such an absurdly impossible action?
Let me tie up your boot lace mate…
take you through each hoop
ride the snake-lace and prepare for the
bootstrapping of Cambridge Analytica
Through the first hoop, SCL USA Limited
incorporated in London, Canary Wharf, 2015
2016 changed its name to Cambridge Analytica
a time bomb about to explode
Alexander Nix and his roller-deck of spies begin
Through the next hoop of Robert Mercer
hedge fund conservative, part owner of CA
And on through the Ted Cruz campaign hoop
the Steve Bannon hoop
the Donald Trump campaign hoop and
the LEAVE.EU campaign hoop
C.A snakes its way up the boot
the stench of rotten feet managed by
the socks of corporate owned media
(Thank Goodness for the independent
journalism of Carole Cadwalladr at the Guardian)
And straight through the Mark Zuckenburg hoop
and the facebook hoop
picking up 50 Million
profiles and farming the data for the worst
possible use: political gain
weaponised behavioural dynamics
and through another hoop, Canadian data-robbers
AggregateIQ
Humans treated like cattle-data-fodder
Oxford Eton Cambridge Analytica, burp!
and a divisive strategy to divide and conquer
Brexit Trump Trump Brexit, some say the two
most destructive tragedies of the 21st century
enabled by conservatives such as
Aleksandr Kogan, Roger Gabb, Richard Mercer,
Sir Geoffrey Pattie, Steve Bannon, Lord Marland, Julian Wheatland
Donald Trump, Vincent Tchenguiz, Nigel Farage
Chris Wylie, Mark Zuckenburg?
who the stooges and who the architects?
culpability?
the CIA MI5 KGB Mossad alliance, oh my.
The boot is fully strapped up, the foot inside
is dead
The laces are no longer laces but tentacles
the shoe is the body of an octopus.
Threaded tentacles act like laces.
In Cambridge Analytica we have a
new Octopus for all to see.
A slimy conspiracy with many tentacles
reaching to the usual con. suspects
spies, politicians, intelligence agencies
big-data companies.
Let us tie up the tentacles and starve the
octopus of oxygen, contain it before it crawls up our legs
and, like a deleted scene from Alien,
gets up inside us via any available orifice
Cambridge Analytica seems to love arseholes.
I apologise to all Octopuses worldwide for defamation of character
in my analogy to the devilish global conspiracy
that is Cambridge Analytica and their clients.
Shamebridge Analytica
May you choke on your own entropy
strangle yourself with competitive hoarding
and go mad with greed and monopoly.
Some Links of Interest:
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/carolecadwalladr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Games_and_Economic_Behavior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory
Please visit Mark’s website here:
http://markpesce.com/
There are two other paths open for literature, nearlydiametrically opposed. The first was taken by JRR Tolkien inThe Lord of the Rings. Although hugely popular, the threebook series has never been described as a ‘page-turner’, beingtoo digressive and leisurely, yet, for all that, entirelycaptivating. Tolkien imagined a new universe – or rather,retrieved one from the fragments of Northern Europeanmythology – and placed his readers squarely within it. Andalthough readers do finish the book, in a very real sense theydo not leave that universe. The fantasy genre, which Tolkiensingle-handedly invented with The Lord of the Rings, sells tens of millions of books every year, and the universe ofMiddle-Earth, the archetypal fantasy world, has become theplayground for millions who want to explore their ownimaginations.
Tolkien’s magnum opus lends itself tohypertext; it is one of the few literary works to come completewith a set of appendices to deepen the experience of theuniverse of the books. Online, the fans of Middle-Earth havecreated seemingly endless resources to explore, explain, andmaintain the fantasy. Middle-Earth launches off the page,driven by its own centrifugal force, its own drive to unpackitself into a much broader space, both within the reader’smind and online, in the collective space of all of the work’sreaders. This is another direction for the book. While everyauthor will not be a Tolkien, a few authors will work hard tocreate a universe so potent and broad that readers will betempted to inhabit it. (Some argue that this is the secret of JKRowling’s success.)
Finally, there is another path open for the literary text, onewhich refuses to ignore the medium that constitutes it, whichembraces all of the ambiguity and multiplicity and liminalityof hypertext. There have been numerous attempts at‘hypertext fiction’; nearly all of them have been unreadablefailures. But there is one text which stands apart, bothbecause it anticipated our current predicament, and becauseit chose to embrace its contradictions and dilemmas. Thebook was written and published before the digital computerhad been invented, yet even features an innovation which isreminiscent of hypertext. That work is James Joyce’sFinnegans Wake, and it was Joyce’s deliberate effort to makeeach word choice a layered exploration of meaning that givesthe text such power. It should be gibberish, but anyone whohas read Finnegans Wake knows it is precisely the opposite.
The text is overloaded with meaning, so much so that themind can’t take it all in. Hypertext has been a help; there area few wikis which attempt to make linkages between the textand its various derived meanings (the maunderings of fourgenerations of graduate students and Joycephiles), and it mayeven be that – in another twenty years or so – the wikis willbegin to encompass much of what Joyce meant. But there isanother possibility. In so fundamentally overloading the text,implicitly creating a link from every single word to something else, Joyce wanted to point to where we were headed. In this,Finnegans Wake could be seen as a type of science fiction, not a dystopian critique like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, nor the transhumanist apotheosis of Olaf Stapleton’sStarmaker (both near-contemporary works) but rather a text that pointed the way to what all texts would become,performance by example. As texts become electronic, as theymelt and dissolve and link together densely, meaningmultiplies exponentially. Every sentence, and every word inevery sentence, can send you flying in almost any direction.The tension within this text (there will be only one text) willmake reading an exciting, exhilarating, dizzying experience –as it is for those who dedicate themselves to Finnegans Wake.
It has been said that all of human culture could bereconstituted from Finnegans Wake. As our texts become one, as they become one hyperconnected mass of humanexpression, that new thing will become synonymous withculture. Everything will be there, all strung together. Andthat’s what happened to the book.–Mark Pesce.
The Next Billion Seconds
What happens after we’re all connected?–Mark Pesce
http://nextbillionseconds.com/
HYPEREDUCATION at Columbia College
Mark Pesce on “HYPERCIVILITY” at Civic Hall
2020 Foresight” at Future of Insurance 2015
Come join a crash course cosmic adventure through the lives and ideas of Robert Anton Wilson!
The Maybe Logic Academy is once again opening its invisible doors for an intensive 8 week RAW workshop, which leads directly into the premier of the highly anticipated stage adaptation of RAW’s Cosmic Trigger by Daisy Eris Campbell!
The secret society reconvenes on September 23rd, come find the others here at: maybelogic.net
SECTION 1: RAW Artists Workshop
A collaborative jimjam of like minded mutants and MLA critters creating new meps and mapaphors to help find the others just in time for space migration.
SECTION 2: Perilous Lessons from the Chapel of Ill-Repute Presented by Propaganda Anonymous
WEEK THREE: NEUROGEOGRAPHY OF CONSPIRACY THEORY
WEEK FOUR: A TRADITION OF EXPLANATION
SECTION 3: The Latest Model
Presented by Toby Philpott aka Bogus
In which we examine the language we us to describe the world, and the models we develop to try to explain it, or at least find our way around.
WEEK FIVE: THE MENU IS NOT THE MEAL
Presentation: Language as a virus
Workshop: Using E-Prime for a week – an exercise to help us evaluate the words we use, and communicate more clearly
WEEK SIX: 8 DIMENSIONS OF MIND
Presentation: Models of the Mind, with special reference to the 8 Circuit Model
Workshop: Discussion of the model, experiences with it, variations and alternatives – “all models need revision, when new information comes in.”
SECTION 4: The Cosmic Giggle Factor
Presented by Bobby Campbell
Wherein we will endeavor to use the whimsical magic of art & technology to unleash the RAW power of change in ourselves and the world. PULL MY FINGER!
“The world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
– J. B. S. Haldane
WEEK SEVEN: COSMIC TRIGGER HAPPY
Presentation: The Great Magician
Workshop: Metaprograms & Sigils
WEEK EIGHT: THE FINAL SECRET OF THE ILLUMINATI
Presentation: Operation Mindfuck
Workshop: RAW Memetics
http://www.maybelogic.net/about-menu/faculty/upcoming/cosmic-trigger-re-play#
