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| I've got just four words to say to |
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| those who are [dissing] Jagwire X's |
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| Autopia Project : |
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| "Get Your Own Boat" |
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| -- polekat |
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Talking Raven Re:view
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December 16, 1992
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"Take all you want....I'll make more"
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| Cyberlicious <tm> | Editor : Blade X | The Bamboo Gardens |
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| PO Box 4510 | bladex@wixer.cactus.org | (512) 385-2941 |
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| Austin, TX 78765 | Neo-Wobblie Node # 269 | WWIV : 46@5285 |
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EDIBORIAL
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This was supposed to be a simple letter to the Scream Baby subscribers.
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Hi! I'm going to Yew*stun for Xmas Con this weekend...
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Let's do launch if our spheres collide;
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was all this needed to be.
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Maybe toss in an interesting line noise or two.
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Perhaps a brief eulogy for my friend Sandeep. Seems he was hiking in New
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Mexico and was excited about seeing snow for the fourth time in his life.
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[Sandeep was from India] He ran ahead of his group, got separated, got lost,
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and died of hypothermia that night.
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To put it in perspective, re:alize that Sandeep contracted a rare neurological
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disorder six months ago. He woke up not being able to feel or move his legs,
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the victim of a mystery-to-medicine. Being in New Mexico was a celebration of
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months of successful rehabilitation.
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People die every day.
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You will die someday soon sorry to spoil the secret.
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But dying out of excitement to explore the universe......it could be worse.
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Walk it like ya talk it. Thanx for the lesson, Sandeep.
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| It could have been "Walter" Gibson |
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| -- Paco |
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TALKING RAVEN
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THE JOURNAL OF IMAGINATIVE TROUBLE
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Talking Raven : The Journal of Imaginative Trouble Vol II, #1 Summer Solstice
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1992. Distributed free on the streets of Seattle. By snailmail $2 USD in
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America, $5 USD anyplace else.
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The theme of this issue is "Virtual Reality : Close But No Cigar." Editor
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Antero Alli claims this to be "our cyberpunk satire, a rebellion against
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those simulated realities and media illusions which....fail to move the
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imagination."
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If satire is what Talking Raven sought, then consider this issue a miserable
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failure. This satire issue is super-charged concentrate; Antero Alli's
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writings reveal a Prime A Grade Cyberpunk.
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"From the Editor's Monitor" rants about virtual reality (more on that later)
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and ends with an advocation to "Turn off the TV and make your own movies"
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People seizing methods of producing mass media for themselves? A call to
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"turn off the TV and make your own movies....shoot the news or make the
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news....but get out there and DO SOMETHING"?
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Nope, not cyberpunk!
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Another article explores the connections between advertising and black
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magic(k). Sean Kilpatrick explains how television commercials use the same
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methods that Aleister Crowley's espoused concerning the shaping of Will
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(re:ality). Antero Alli pops up again with an essay on "How To See Through
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Advertising"
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Television as a major form of thought control? Arming the viewer with
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knowledge in order to defend against the influence of advertising?
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Nope, not cyberpunk!
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The re-structuring of economic value from product to information?
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Nope, not cyberpunk!
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This isn't a satire; this is pure, unexpurgated cyberpunk. It ain't perfect,
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just damn interesting.
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The knock against virtual reality essentially claims that VR ain't cyberpunk
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*enough*. One of the identifying characteristics of New Edge technology is
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individual personal control. How many of you can program a virtual reality
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environment? How many of you think you'll be able to do so in less than 20
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years?
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Not I.
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Sure, nickel and dime stuff, but there is such a wide chasm between
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possibility and plausibility that I'll look for other ledges to leap. For all
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the rhetoric on individual emancipation, for all the rhetoric on DIY, 99% of
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the population will be plugging in pre-prepared Babbage's bubble shrink wrap
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slag.
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A rail against the commodification of cyberspace?
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Nope, not cyberpunk!
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-- end of review --
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| There are some who still believe in reality. |
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| Believe in re:ality. |
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-- beginning of re:view --
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____________________________
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| Re:ality is the sum of the |
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| spheres of reality. |
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|____________________________|
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The history of humanity is the clan/family. Individuals had little
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contact with other realities -- and cultural exchange was more likely to
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involve weapons of destruction than literature when one walked into the walls
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of a different reality tunnel.
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Today we are flooded.
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Not satisfied with a single perspective, thought, belief, and culture,
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communication technology strives to represent the realities of every single
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human on the planet. No corner of the globe too distant to explore, no ugly
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seam at home too disturbing to ignore.
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Integrate all these realities or go crazy, is what mass media structure
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dictates.
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| Choose Pandemonium |----->-----
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Join the concrete culture or die is the memetic threat. |
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---------<---- | Choose Life | <-------<----
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People like Pat |obertson and Pat Buchanan try to cram a fractured world into
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a single, monoli|hic reality. That they think this possible is why we should
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laugh. | ________________________________
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--> | Not for any political content |
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A rite of passage for every political-cultural-activist is to bemoan how
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a certain media outlet does not correspond with reality. Conservatives
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about the liberal bias of reporters and the existence of Public Television.
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Liberals about the domination of conservative corporate culture on newspapers.
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Union members about the absence of perspectives on labor relations. Feminists
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about the number of bimbos. Afrikan-Americans about the preponderance of
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members of their race who are shown not as successful professionals, but drug-
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dealing uneducated criminals. Christians about the lack of people seen on
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television who go to church, pray, or display any religious beliefs whatsoever
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despite the enormous wide-spread popular practice of "going to church." Let me
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stop before I fill someone's message buffer. All groups end with a single
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rallying battle cry.
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Look on page 3 of Beat Scene magazine, Issue 14.
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[Single copies $8 for US/Japan/Australia, 2.30 pounds UK, 3
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pounds Eire; 4 issues are $28 US, 8 pounds UK, 10 pounds Eire
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from 27 Court Leet, Binley Woods Nr Coventry CV3 2JQ, Warks
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England Tel (voice) 0203-543604]
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Beat Scene is a British zine about "getting hep with William Burroughs, Jack
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Kerouac, Charles Bukowsky... Allen Ginsberg....Desolation Angels everywhere"
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It's slogan is "definitely here to go." Look at the rest of zine later, for
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now concentrate on page 3. Look at the review of Apocalypse, which is a
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collaboration between William S. Burroughs and the late graphic artist Keith
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Haring.
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[Wait.......did you not bring your text[s] to class?
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It was on the syllabus............let me sigmasize]
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Burroughs equates Pan with the belief that all experience is equally real. In
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Pandemonium, there is no distinction between the reality found in [meat]
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reality or the reality found in dream, fantasy, or [tele-]visions. The birth
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of Christ was the death of Pan, contends Burroughs, but Pan returned to the
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world with the creation of modern art.
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Illusion? Reality? Does it matter?
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And that final question tore the fabric of reality. Pandemonium broke out.
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Cities are attacked by graffiti artists. Household appliances revolt.
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Everything goes crazy. The world spills.
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Now I'm not one to quibble with WSB nor question the origin of Pan's
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resurrection. My simple and humble exposition is that if Duchamp opened the
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gates which allowed Pandemonium to return then communications technology
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placed it in the Life of every human on the planet. Without mass media,
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Duchamp was just some guy puttering in his basement.
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A New Edge Affirmation
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| I control the frequency |
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| I control the horizontal |
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| I control the vertical |
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| Do not attempt to adjust my set |
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Let me try to tie everything mentioned so far:
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| In cyberspace you are the media |
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-- close of re:view -- | Choose Pandemonium |----->-----
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