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  • Fly By Night Radio Show 373 – Tapping My Own Phone

    Steve The Fly is tapping his own phone to come up with this week’s episode of Fly By Night, with mind-boggling selections by Charles Olson, David Amram, Alan Moore, Amiri Baraka, James Blood Ulmer, Robert Anton Wilson, Thelonious Monk, John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth, Dizzy Gillespie, Ezra Pound, and Lalo Schifrin.


    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

    TAPPING MY OWN PHONE

    FLY BY NIGHT 373

    Steve The Fly, Fly Agaric 23 Studio, Amsterdam, August 28, 2013 [20440]

    Lalo Schifrin: Dawn Discovery/The Stadium Grounds >
    Charles Olson: Mayan Letter No. 5
    David Amram: Tapping My Own Phone
    Alan Moore: Disapearing

    Amiri Baraka: Nightmare Bush’it Whirl
    James Blood Ulmer: Raw Groove
    Robert Anton Wilson: Science Fiction
    Thelonious Monk: Off Minor
    John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth: Testify featuring Steve The Fly
    Dizzy Gillespie:Things To Come
    Ezra Pound: Canto 1 > Steve Fly: Instrumental

    A JOINT PRODUCTION

    Produced by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam (#24)

    Edited & annotated by John Sinclair

    Executive Producer: Steve Pratt

    © 2013, 2020 Steve Pratt. Used with permission.

  • Word And Deed Thought And Policy Speech Act And Written Word

    “Freedom is the name for the thing that is not freedom”–Herman Melville

    Missing in the dominant formulation is the difference between word and deed, thought and policy, between speech act and written word, what is outside or what is inside a chain of command, what is rendered powerless and illegitimate. What does it mean when an Amiri Baraka or Ward Churchill writes or says something? Why does it mean something different when a secretary of Defense, a general, or a CEO of a large corporation says or writes something?–Ammiel Alcalay, A Little History, pg. 177

    https://www.upsetpress.org/double-book-release-ammiel-alcalay/