At night projections from moving cars are shone on the buildings downtown. Each car projects a video of a wild animal. The animal’s movements are programmed to correspond to the speed of the car: as the car moves, the animal runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the animal stops also. The framerate of the movie corresponds to the speed of the wheel rotation, picked up by a sensor. If the presence of a moving object (such as another car or pedestrian) is detected with proximity sensors, its animal “avatar” appears in the projection.
For the ZeroOne ISEA2006 I will be using one vehicle with a projection of a tiger (additional animals will appear in the projection as reflections of passing vehicles and pedestrians).
Projection disappears and flickers as it is supported by the architecture. The city itself is an active partner in creating this alter ego.
We are elevated from the everyday reality through this element of fantasy into a world with more dimensions, possibilities and perhaps beauty.

created by Karolina Sobecka

Cybermind is an Internet mailing list, originally founded in 1994 to discuss the issues and problems of living online. It proved exceptionally fertile and is still going strong thirteen years later.

This book is an ethnographic investigation which follows Cybermind members in their daily lives on the List, and explores the ways they look at the world, argue, relate online life to offline life, use gender, and build community. Perhaps the most comprehensive history of an Internet group ever published, it includes detailed analyses using List members’ own words and commentary, and develops a unique theory of the relationship between culture, the problems of communication, and the ongoing processes of categorisation. Living on Cybermind illustrates how behaviour is affected by the organisation of communication, and how people deal with the paradoxes involved in resolving ambiguity and truth in a situation in which presence is always on the verge of slipping away.

Jonathan Marshall and Angela Thomas
Living on Cybermind  & Youth Online: Identity and Literacy in the Digital Age
Published by: Peter Lang
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Using both historical and contemporary examples, this publication traces the complex relationships among art, technology and science, focusing on technological and artistic media from the nineteenth century to the present day.

World Power Systems is an entity that produces artifacts and written ideas to create a sort of portal between this early Cold War era and today; to illuminate the beauty and horror, at once alien and familiar, and thereby reflect today’s beauty and horror back into visibility.

The artifacts, visible elsewhere, are obsolete forgeries. My work is not entirely visual; it needs to be felt and manipulated to hear it’s story.

The form tells a story of aesthetic design evolution; the functions define the true history of money and politics.

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American drama film directed, written and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil! (1927). It tells the story of a silver-miner-turned-oil-man on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California’s oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.

The film received significant critical praise and numerous award nominations and victories. It appeared on many critics’ “top ten” lists for the year, notably the American Film Institute^[1], the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Day-Lewis won Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors’ Guild, NYFCC, and IFTA Best Actor awards for his performance. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning Best Actor for Day-Lewis, and Best Cinematography for Robert Elswit.

It’s your worst neurosis of your life.
It’s the most meaningless conspiracy in history.
It’s a spy fiction about your intimate secrets and personal data over internet.

A story dispersed in more than seven cities, across several media platforms and among a cluster of actors who lead a tour in some of the most poignant sentiments of the human condition. The worst obsessions of your era and your hearts are transposed onto many stages, where degenerate souls with insatiable fixations are trying to give sense to their life.

Facebook – Youtube – Flicker – BlogSpot – Twitter – MySpace – Linkedin
This genetic modification of storytelling utilizes multiple forms of media and stages, which are recombined in order to immerse the spectator in a story of a real world. The fluid recombination of identities and of their interpersonal connections via several media in a non linear time line allows for Recombinant Fiction, a multi-platform, multi-channels and cross-media form of storytelling.

Love – espionage – sentiment – hate – politics – corruption – turmoil
are rendered in a form of fiction which doesn’t treat the spectator as a consumer, contemplating a completed piece of art in a tv-box, theatre or museum, but rather as something unfinished.
The Big Plot is an immersive Recombinant Fiction, which needs an active investigation by an audience, who must follow clues in several stages in order to compile the whole story. So now you can take the responsibility of creating your own show!

The audience is sent on an intimate voyage into the secret lives of four bipolar characters, who struggle hopelessly with the planning of a big plot against their society.
Who knows what that plot is? Which is the real plot?

217 Babel Street is a web of interconnected stories set in a seaside apartment block. There are twenty apartments in the building. Each of the four writers works independently of the others, starting off stories from different rooms. New pages are produced by creating a link from a word or a phrase on a page that already exists. Writers can interrupt and take over each other’s stories, taking them in different directions. Month by month the narrative changes, expanding into new rooms, characters and situations, creating new pathways for readers to explore.

        William S. Burroughs

        The Electronic Revolution

        FEEDBACK FROM WATERGATE TO THE GARDEN OF EDEN 

        In the beginning was the word and the word was god and has
        remained one of the mysteries ever since. The word was God and
        the word was flesh we are told. In the beginning of what exactly
        was this beginning word? In the beginning of WRITTEN history. It
        is generally assumed that spoken word came before the written
        word. I suggest that the spoken word as we know it came after
        the written word. In the beginning was the word and the word was
        God and the word was flesh ... human flesh ... In the beginning
        of WRITING. Animals talk and convey information but they do not
        write. They cannot make information available to future
        generations or to animals outside the range of their
        communication system. This is the crucial distinction between
        men and other animals. WRITING. Korzybski, who developed the
        concept of General Semantics, the meaning of meaning, has
        pointed out this human distinction and described man as 'the
        time binding animal'. He can make information to other men over
        a length of time through writing. Animals talk. They dont write.
        Now a wise old rat may know a lot about traps and poison but he
        cannot write a text book on DEATH TRAPS IN YOUR WAREHOUSE for
        the Reader's Digest with tactics for ganging up on digs and
        ferrets and taking care of wise guys who stuff steel wool up our
        holes. It is doubtful if the spoke word would have ever evolved
        beyond the animal stage without the written word. The written
        word ist inferential in HUMAN speech. It would not occur to our
        wise old rat to assemble the young rats and pass his knowledge
        along in an aural tradition BECAUSE THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF TIME
        BINDING COULD NOT OCCUR WITHOUT THE WRITTEN WORD. 

        The writtenword is of course a symbol for something and in the case of
        hieroglyphic language writing like Egyptian it may be a symbol
        for itself that is a picture of what it represents. This is not
        true of an alphabet language like English. The word leg has no
        pictorial resemblance to a leg. It refers to the SPOKEN word
        leg. so we may forget that a written word IS AN IMAGE and that
        written words are images in sequence that is to say MOVING
        PICTURES. So any hieroglyphic sequence gives us an immediate
        working definition for spoken words. Spoken words are verbal
        units that refer to this pictorial sequence. And what then is
        the written word? My basis theory is that the written word was
        literally a virus that made spoken word possible. The word has
        
        not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state
        of stable symbiosis with the host... (This symbiotic
        relationship is now breaking down for reasons I will suggest
        later.)
        I quote from MECHANISMS OF VIRUS INFECTION edited by Mr. Wilson
        Smith, a scientist who really thinks about his subject instead
        of merely correlating data. He thinks, that is, about the
        ultimate intentions of the virus organism. In an article
        entitled VIRUS ADAPTIBILITY AND HOST RESISTANCE by G. Belyavin,
        speculations as to the biologic goal of the virus species are
        enlarged ... 'Viruses are obligatory cellular parasites and are
        thus wholly dependant upon the integrity of the cellular systems
        they parasitize for their survival in an active state. It is
        something of a paradox that many viruses ultimately destroy the
        cells in which they are living..." 

        And I may add the environment necessary for any cellular
        structure they could parasitize to survive. Is the virus then
        simply a time bomb left on this planet to be activated by remote
        control? An extermination program in fact? In its path from full
        virulence to its ultimate goal of symbiosis will any human
        creature survive? Is the white race, which would seem to be more
        under virus control than the black yellow and brown races,
        giving any indication of workable symbiosis? 

        'Taking the virus eye view, the ideal situation would appear to
        be one in which the virus replicates in cells without in any way
        disturbing their normal metabolism.' 

        This has been suggested as the ideal biological situation toward
        which all viruses are slowly evolving...' 

        Would you offer violence to a well intentioned virus on its slow
        road to symbiosis? 

        'It is worth noting that if a virus were to attain a state of
        wholly benign equilibrium with its host cell it is unlikely that
        its presence would be readily detected OR THAT IT WOULD
        NECESSARILY BE RECOGNIZED AS A VIRUS. I suggest that the word is
        just such a virus. Doktor Kurt Unruh von Steinplatz has put
        forth an interesting theory as to the origins and history of
        this word virus. He postulates that the word was a virus of what
        he calls BIOLOGIC MUTATION effecting the biologic change in its
        host which was then genetically conveyed. One reason that apes
        cant talk is because the structure of their inner throats is
        simply not designed to formulate words. He postulates that
        alteration in inner throat structure were occasioned by virus
        illness ... And not occasion ... This illness may well have had
        a high rate of mortality but some female apes must have survived
        to give birth to the wunder kindern. The illness perhaps assumed
        a more malignant form in the male because of his more developed
        and rigid muscular structure causing death through strangulation
        and vertebral fracture. Since the virus in both male and female
        precipitates sexual frenzy through irritation of sex centers in
        the brain the males impregnated the females in their death
        spasms and the altered throat structured was genetically
        conveyed. Having effected alterations in the host's structure
        that resulted in a new species specially designed to accomodate
        the virus the virus can now replicate without disturbing the
        metabolism and without being recognized a virus. A symbiotic
        relationship has now been established and the virus is now built
        into the host which sees the virus as a useful part of itself.
        This successful virus can now sneer at gangster viruses like
        small pox and turn them in to The Pasteur Institute. Ach jungen
        what a scene is here ... the apes are moulting fur steaming off
        them females whimpering and slobbering over dying males like
        cows with aftosa and so a stink musky sweet rotten metal stink
        of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden... 

        The creation of Adam, the Garden of Eden, Adam's fainting spell
        during which God made Eva from his body, the forbidden fruit
        which was of course knowledge of the whole stinking thing and
        might be termed the first Watergate scandal, all slots neatly
        into Doc Steinplatz's theory. And this was a white myth. This
        leads to the supposition that the word virus assumed a specially
        malignant and lethal form in the white race. What then accounts
        for this special malignance of the white word virus? Most likely
        a virus mutation occasioned by radioactivity .All animal and
        insect experiments so far carried out indicate that mutations
        resulting from radiation are unfavorable that is not conductive
        to survival. These experiments relate to the effects of
        radiation on autonomous creatures. What about the effects of
        radiation on viruses? Are there not perhaps some so classified
        and secret experiments hiding behind national security? Virus
        mutations occasioned by radiation may be quite favorable for the
        virus. And such a virus might well violate the equilibrium with
        the host cell. So now with the tape recorders of Watergate and
        the fall out from atomic testing the virus stirs uneasy in all
        your white throats. It was a killer virus once. It could become
        a killer virus again and rage through cities of the world like a
        topping forest fire. 

        "It is the beginning of the end." That was the reaction of a
        science attache' at one of Washington's major embassies to
        reports that a synthetic gene particle had been produced in the
        laboratory ..."Any small country can now make a virus for which
        there is no cure. It would only take a small laboratory. Any
        small country with good biochemists could do it." 

        And presumeably any big country could do it quicker and better. 

        In the Electronic Revolution I advance the theory that a virus
        IS a very small unit of word and image. I have suggested now
        such units can be biologically activated to act as communicable
        virus strains. Let us start with three tape recorders in The
        Garden of Eden. Tape recorder 1 is Adam. Tape recorder 2 is Eve.
        Tape recorder 3 is God, who deteriorated after Hiroshima into
        the Ugly American. Or to return to our primevil scene: Tape
        recorder 1 is the male ape in a helpless sexual frenzy as the
        virus strangles him. Tape recorder 2 is a cooing female ape who
        straddles him. Tape recorder 3 is DEATH. 

        Steinplatz postulates that the virus of biologic mutation, which
        he calls Virus B-23, is contained in the word. Unloosing this
        virus from the word could be more deadly that loosing the power
        of the atom. Because all hate all pain all fear all lust is
        contained in the word. Perhaps we have here in these three tape
        recorders the virus of biologic mutation which once gave us the
        word and has hidden behind the word ever since. And perhaps
        three tape recorders and some good biochemists can unloose this
        force. Now look at these three tape recorders and think in terms
        of the virus particle. Recorder 1 is the perspective host for an
        influenza virus. Tape recorder number 2 is the means by which
        the virus gains access to the host, in the case of a flu virus
        by disolving a hole in cells of the host's respiratory tract.
        Number 2, having gained access to the cell. leads in number 3.
        Number 3 is the effect produced in the host by the virus:
        coughing, fever, inflamation. NUMBER 3 IS OBJECTIVE REALITY
        PRODUCED BY THE VIRUS IN THE HOST Viruses make themselves real.
        It's a way viruses have. We now have three tape recorders. So we
        will make a simple word virus. Let us suppose that our target is
        a rival politician. On tape recorder 1 we will record speeches
        and conversation carefully editing in stammers mispronouncing,
        inept phrases ... the worst number 1 can assemble. now on tape
        recorder 2 we will make so a love tape by bugging his bed room.
        We can potentiate this tape by splicing it in with a sexual
        object that is inadmissible or inaccessible or both, say the
        senator's teen age daughter. On tape recorder 3 we will record
        hateful disapproving voices and splice the three recordings
        together at very short intervals and play them back to the
        senator and his constituents. This cutting and playback can be
        very complex involving speech scramblers and batteries of tape
        recorders but THE BASIC PRINCIPAL IS SIMPLY SPLICING SEX TAPE
        AND DISAPPROVAL TAPES IN TOGETHER. Once the associations lines
        are established they are activated every time the senator's
        speech centres are activated which is all the time heavan help
        that sorry bestard if anything happened to his big mouth. So his
        teen age daughter crawls all over him while Texas rangers and
        decent church going women rise from tape recorder 3 screaming
        "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN FRONT OF DECENT PEOPLE." 

        The teen age daughter is just a refinement. Basically all you
        need is sex recordings on number 2 and hostile recordings on
        number 3. With this simple formula any CIA sonofabitch can
        become God that is tape tape recorder 3. Notice the emphasis on
        sexual material in burglaries and bugging in the Watergate cess
        pool ...Bugging Martin Luther King's bed room ...Kiss Kiss bang
        bang ...A deadly assassination technique. At the very least sure
        to unerve and put opponents at a disadvantage. So the real
        scandal of Watergate that has not come out yet is not that bed
        rooms were bugged and the offices of psychiatrists ransaked but
        THE PRECISE USE THAT WAS AND IS MADE OF THIS SEXUAL MATERIAL.
        This formula works best on a closed circit. If sexual recordings
        and film are widespread, tolerated and publicaly shown tape
        recorder 3 losses ist power. Which perhaps explains why the
        Nixon administration is out to close down set films and
        reestablish censorship on all films and books. to keep close
        circit on tape recorder 3. 

        And this brings us to the subject of SEX. In the words of the
        late John O'Hara I'm glad you came to me instead of one of those
        quacks on the top floor ...Psychiatrists, priests whatever they
        call themselves they want to turn in off and keep tape recorder
        3 in business. Let's turn it on. All you swingers use video
        cameras and tape recorders to record and photograph your
        sessions. Now go over the session and pick out the sexiest
        pieces you know when it really HAPPENS. Reich built a machine
        with electrodes attached to the penis to measure this orgasm
        charge. Here is unpleasurable orgasm sagging ominously as tape
        recorder 3 cuts in. He just made it. And here is a pleasurable
        orgasm way up on the graph. So take the best of your sessions
        and invite the nabors to see it. Its the naborly thing to do.
        Try cutting them in together alternating 24 frames per second.
        Try slow downs and speed ups. 

        Build and experiment with orgone accumulators. Its simply a box
        of any shape or size lined with iron. Your intrepid reporter at
        age 37 achieved spontaneous orgasm no hands in an orgone
        accumulator built in an orange grove in Pharr/Texas. It was the
        small direct application accumulator that did the trick. That's
        what every red blooded boy and girl should be doing in their
        basement work shop. The orgone accumulator could be greatly
        potentiated by using MAGNETIZED IRON which sends a powerful
        magnetic field through the body. And small accumulators like ray
        guns. 

        There is Two Gun Maggee going off in his pants. The gun falls
        from his hand. Quick as he was he was not quick enough. 

        For a small directional accumulator obtain six powerful magnets.
        Arrange your magnetized squares so they form a box. In one end
        of the box drill a hole and insert an iron tube. Now cover the
        box and tube with any organic material ...rubber,leather,cloth.
        Now train the tube on your privates and the privates of your
        friends and nabors. Its good for young and old man and beast and
        is known as SEX. It is also known to have a direct connection
        with what is known as LIFE. Let's get St. Paul off our backs and
        take off the bible belt. And tell tape recorder 3 to cover his
        own dirty thing. It stinks from the garden of Eden to Watergate. 

        I have said that the real scandal of Watergate is the use made
        of recordings. And what is this use? Having made the recordings
        as described what then do they do with them? 

        ANSWER: THEY PLAY THEM BACK ON LOCATION. 

        They play these recordings back to the target himself is the
        target is an individual from passing cars and agents that walk
        by him in the street. They play these recordings back in his
        naborhood. Finally they play them back in subways, restaurants,
        air ports and other public places.

        PLAYBACK is the essential ingredient. 

        I have made a number of experiments with street recordings and
        playback over a period of years and the startling fact emerges
        THAT YOU DO NOT NEED SEX RECORDINGS OR EVEN DOCTORED TAPES TO
        PRODUCE EFFECTS BY PLAYBACK. ANY RECORDINGS PLAYED BACK ON
        LOCATION IN THE MANNER I WILL NOW DESCRIBE CAN PRODUCE EFFECTS.
        No doubt sexual and doctored tapes would be more powerful. But
        some of the power in the word is released by simple playback as
        anyone can verify who will take the time to experiment ...I
        quote from some notes on these playback experiments. 

        Friday July 28, 1972 ...Plan 28 at a glance ...First some
        remarks on the tape recorder experiments started by Ian
        Sommerville in 196. these involved not only street, pub, party,
        subway recordings but also PLAYBACK on location. when I returned
        to London from the States in 1966 he had already accumulated a
        considerable body of data and developed a technology. He had
        discovered that playback on location can produce definite
        effects. Playing back recordings of an accident can produce
        another accident. In 1966 I was staying at the Rushmore Hotel,
        11 Trebovir Road, Earl's Court, and we carried out a number of
        these operations: street recordings, cut in of other material,
        playback in the streets ...(I recall I had cut in fire engines
        and while playing this tape back in the street fire engines
        passed.) These experiments were summarized in THE INVISIBLE
        GENERATION ... ( I wonder if anybody but CIA agents read this
        article or thought of putting these techniques into actual
        operation) Anybody who carries out similar experiments over a
        period of time will turn up more 'coincidences' than the law of
        averages allows. The tech can be extended by taking still or
        moving pictures during playback. I have frequently observed this
        operation: make recordings and take pictures of some location
        you wish to discomode or destroy, now play recordings back and
        take more pictures, will result in accidents, fires, removals.
        especially the latter The target moves. We carried out this
        operation with the Scientology Center at 37 Fitzroy Street. Some
        months later they moved to 68 Tottenham Court Road, where a
        similar operation was carried out... 

        Here is a sample operation carried out against The Moka Bar at
        29 Frith Street London W1 beginning on August 3, 1972 ...Reverse
        Thursday ...Reason for operation was outrageous and unprovoked
        discourtesy and poisoned cheese cake... 

        Now to close in on The Moka Bar. Record. Take pictures. Stand
        around outside. Let them see me. They are seething around in
        there. The horrible old proprietor, his frizzy haired wife and
        slack jawed son, the snarling counter man. I have them and they
        know it. 

        "You boys have a rep for making trouble. Well come on out and
        make some. Pull a camera breaking act and I'll call a Bobby. I
        gotta right to do what I like in the public street." 

        If it came to that I would explain to the policeman that I was
        taking street recordings and making a documentary of Soho. This
        was after all London's First Expresso Bar was it not? I was
        doing them a favor. They couldnt say what both of us knew
        without being ridiculous... 

        "He's not making any documentary. He's trying to blow up the
        coffee machine, start a fire in the kitchen, start fights in
        here, get us a citation from the Board of Health." 

        Yes I had them and they knew it. I looked in at the old Prop and
        smiled as if he would like what I was doing. Playback would come
        later with more pictures. I took my time and strolled over to
        the Brewer Street Market where I recorded a three card Monte
        Game. Now you see it now you dont.

        Playback was carried out a number of times with more pictures.
        Their business fell off. They kept shorter and shorter hours.
        October 30, 1972 The Moka Bar closed. The location was taken
        over by The Queens Snack Bar. 

        Now to apply the 3 tape recorder analogy to this simple
        operation. Tape recorder 1 is the Moka Bar itself it is pristine
        condition. Tape recorder 2 is MY RECORDINGS of the Moka Bar
        vicinity. These recordings are ACCESS. Tape recorder 2 in the
        Garden of Eden was Eve made from Adam. So a recording made from
        the Moka Bar is a piece of the Moka Bar. The recording once
        made, this piece becomes autonomous and out of their control.
        Tape recorder 3 is PLAYBACK. Adam experiences shame when his
        DISCRACEFUL BEHAVIOR IS PLAYED BACK TO HIM BY tape recorder 3
        which is God. By playing back my recordings to the Moka Bar when
        I want and with any changes I wish to make in the recordings, I
        become God for this local. I effect them. They cannot effect me.
        And what part do photos take in this operation? Recall what I
        said earlier about written and sopken word. THE WRITTEN WORD IS
        AN IMAGE IS A PICTURE . The spoken word could be defined as any
        verbal units that correspond to these pictures and could be in
        fact be extended to ANY SOUND UNITS THAT CORRESPOND to to the
        pictures ...Recordings and pictures are tape recorder 2 which is
        access. Tape recorder 3 is playback and 'reality'. For example
        suppose your bathroom and bed room are bugged and rigged with
        hidden infra red cameras. These pictures and recordings give
        access. You may not experience shame during defecation and
        intercourse but you may well experience shame when these
        recordings are played back to a disapproving audience. 

        Now let us consider the arena of politics and the applications
        of bugging in this area. Of course any number of recordings are
        immediately available since politicians make speeches on TV.
        However, these recordings do not give access. The man who is
        making a speech is not really there. Consequently more intimate
        or at least private recordings are needed which is why the
        Watergate conspirators had to resort to burgulary. A
        presidential candidate is not a sitting duck like a Moka Bar. He
        can make any number of recordings of his opponents. So the game
        is complex and competitive with recordings made by both sides.
        This leads to more sophisticated techniques the details of which
        have yet to come out. 

        The basic operation of recording pictures, more pictures and
        playback can be carried out by anyone with a recorder and a
        camera. Any number can play. Millions of people could nullify
        the control system which those who are behind Watergate and
        Nixon are attempting to impose. Like all control systems it
        depends on maintaining a monopoly position. If anybody can be
        tape recorder 3 then tape recorder 3 loses power. God must be
        THE GOD. 

        ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION 

        In THE INVISIBLE GENERATION first published in IT and in the Los
        Angeles Free Press in 1966 and reprinted in THE JOB, I consider
        the potential of thousands of people with recorders, portable
        and stationary, messages passed along like signal drums, a
        parody of the President's speech up and down the balconies, in
        and out open windows, through walls, over courtyards, taken up
        by barking dogs, muttering bums, music, traffic down windy
        streets, across parks and soccer fields. Illusion is a
        revolutionary weapon:

        TO SPREAD RUMORS 

        Put ten operators with carefully prepared recordings out at rush
        hour and see how quick the words get around. People don't know
        where they heard it but they heard it. 

        TO DISCREDIT OPPONENTS 

        Take a recorded Wallace speech, cut in stammering coughs sneezes
        hiccoughs snarls pain screams fear whimperings apoplectic
        sputterings slobbering drooling idiot noises sex and animal
        sound effects and play it back in the streets subway stations
        parks political rallies. 

        AS A FRONT LINE WEAPON TO PRODUCE AND ESCALATE RIOTS 

        There is nothing mystical about this operation. Riot sound
        effects can produce an actual riot in a riot situation. RECORDED
        POLICE WISTLES WILL DRAW COPS. RECORDED GUNSHOTS, AND THEIR GUNS
        ARE OUT. 

        "MY GOD, THEY'E KILLING US." 

        A guardsman said later: "I heard and saw my buddy go down, his
        face covered in blood (turned out he'd been hit by a stone from
        a sling shot) and I thought, well this is it." BLOODY WEDNESDAY.
        A DAZED AMERICA COUNTED 23 DEAD AND 32 WOUNDED, 6 CRITICALLY. 

        Here is a run of the mill, pre-riot situation. Protestors have
        been urged to demonstrate peacefully, police and guardsmen to
        exercise restraint. Ten tape recorders strapped under their
        coats, playback, and record controlled from lapel buttons. They
        have pre-recorded riot sound effects from Chicago, Paris, Mexico
        City, Kent/Ohio. If they adjust sound levels of recordings to
        surrounding sound levels, they will not be detected. Police
        scuffle with the demonstrators. The operators converge. turn on
        Chicago record, play back, move on to the next scuffles, record
        playback, keep moving. Things are hotting up, a cop is down
        groaning. shrill chorus of recorded pig squeals and parody
        groans. 

        Could you cool a riot by recording the calmest cop and the most
        reasonable demonstrator? Maybe! However, it's a lot easier to
        start trouble that to stop it. Just pointing out that cut/ups on
        the tape recorder can be used as a weapon. You'll observe that
        the operators are making a cutup as they go. They are cutting in
        Chicago, Paris, Mexico City, Kent Ohio with the present sound
        effects at random and that is a cutup. 

        AS A LONG RANGE WEAPON TO SCRAMBLE AND NULLIFY ASSOCIATIONAL
        LINES PUT DOWN BY MASS MEDIA 

        The control of the mass media depends on laying down lines of
        association. When the lines are cut the associational
        connections are broken.

        President Johnson burst into a swank apartment, held three girls
        at gunpoint, 26 miles north of Saigon yesterday. 

        you can cut the mutter line of the mass media and put the
        altered mutter line out in the streets with a tape recorder.
        Consider the mutter line of the daily press. It goes up with the
        morning papers, millions of people read the same words. In
        different ways, of course. A motion praising Mr. Callaghan's
        action in banning the South African Cricket Tour has spoiled the
        colonel's breakfast. All reacting one way or another to the
        paper world or unseen events which becomes an integral part of
        your reality. You will notice that this process is continually
        subject to random juxtapostation. Just what sign did you see in
        the Green Park station as you glanced up from the PEOPLE? Just
        who called as you were reading your letter in the TIMES? What
        were you reading when your wife broke a dish in the kitchen? An
        unreal paper world and yet completely real because it is
        actually happening. Mutter line of the EVENING NEWS, TV. Fix
        yourself on millions of people all watching Jesse James or the
        Virginian at the same time. International mutter line of the
        weekly news magazine always dated a week ahead. Have you noticed
        it's the kiss of death to be on the front cover of TIME. Madam
        Nhu was there when her husband was killed and her government
        fell. Verwoerd was on the front cover of TIME when a demon
        tapeworm gave the order for his death through a messenger of the
        same. Read the Bible, kept to himself, no bad habits, you know
        the type. Old reliable, read all about it. 

        So stir in news stories, TV plays, stock market quotations,
        adverts and put the altered mutter line out in the streets.

to read:

a selection of xxxgaiaxxx’s library that I MUST read if I have not done it yet

1- Erewhon, de Samuel Butler (Uno de mis libros preferidos, una distopia tan buena como entretenida)
2- Estación de Transito, de Clifford Simak (Bonita novela de ciencia ficción)
3- El Ultimo Día de la Guerra, de Christopher Priest (Todavía no lo leí)
4- Limbo, de Bernard Wolfe (Excelente, una visión bastante terrorífica del futuro)
5- El Prestigio, de Christopher Priest (Muy buena novela sobre los magos y sus problemas)
6- Los Cristales Soñadores, de Theodore Sturgeon (Uno de mis libros preferidos de Sturgeon, pura poesía)
7- Luz Virtual, de William Gibson (Cyberpunk del bueno)
8- El Día de la Creación, de J. G. Ballard (Buena novela, media volada, pero que se puede esperar de Ballard)
9- Noches de Cocaína, de J. G. Ballard (Ballard me encanta, pero este no estuvo TAN bueno)
10- Tiempo de Marte, Phillip Dick (Otro en sala de espera)
11- Mona Lisa Acelerada, de William Gibson (Increíble, viaje al ciberespacio de la mano de Mona)
12- El Señor de la Luz, de Roger Zelazny (Tampoco lo leí todavía)
13- El Mundo Subterraneo, de Fowler Wright (Otro que esta esperando)
14- Super-Cannes, de J. G. Ballard (Buenisimo, en genral todo lo de Ballard me resulta buenisimo)
15- La Costa Mas Lejana, de Ursula K. Le Guin (Los libros de Derramar son increíbles al igual que la escritora, de quien no lei nada malo)
16- Las Tumbas de Atuan, de Ursula K. Le Guin (Mismo que arriba)
17- Fabulas Fantasticas, de Ambrose Bierce (Hacia mucho tiempo que un libro no me hacia reir y reflexionar a la vez de la misma manera que lo hace este)
18- Guía del Usuario Para el Nuevo Milenio, de J. G. Ballard (Buenisimos ensayos de Ballard, opinando sobre Star wars, Casablanca, Hitler y un monton de cosas mas)
19- La Mano Izquierda de la Oscuridad, de Ursula K. Le Guin (Obra maestra)

THANKS!!