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  • 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…

  • Semanto-phonetic writing systems

    Semanto-phonetic writing systemshttp://www.omniglot.com/writing/semanto-phonetic.php The symbols used in these semanto-phonetic writing systems often represent both sound and meaning. As a result, these scripts generally include a large number of symbols: anything from several hundred to tens of thousands. In fact there is no theoretical upper limit to the number of symbols in some scripts, such as…

  • 2012 Singularity Feedback and Video’s

    HI everybody. I’ve been following the development of ‘the 2012 phenomena’ and also the more scientific concept of ‘The Singularity’ since I read ‘Cosmic Trigger’ by Robert Anton Wilson and then ‘The Invisible Landscape’ by Dennis and Terence Mckenna, sometime in the mid 1990’s. From these references you might deduct that I have a ‘psychedelic’…

  • The Jumping Jesus Singularity

    Thanks to Bobby Campbell for bringing this into my head. RAW on his jumping Jesus Hypothesis with some great visual accompanyment.

  • How drugs helped invent the Internet

    Jason Silva seems to me to be a smart motherfucker who’s touching on a large chunk of ‘the tale of the tribe’ and a large part of RAW’s interests: linguistics, life extension, computers and neural-networks, philosophy and most importantly, i think, Techno-Optimism, as we enter 2012.Fresh!–Steve fly. “The phrase that leaped to mind when I…