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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 21:53:07 PST
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (Rpbyr Abeznyr Fhcrevrher)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0029] DIGEST: L'ISLE DE GILLIGAN, CP/SP lists
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Keywords: surfpunk, gilligans island, cyberpunk, steampunk, future sex
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| I have spent the majority of my 36 years in
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| orphanages, reformatories, prisons, and mental
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| institutions. I had four oboe teachers and each
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| one fell into an irrigation sluice and drowned.
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| I'd tried explaining to my social workers that I
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| hated double-reed mouthpieces. I pleaded with
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| them not to make me take lessons on any
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| instrument in the oboe family, which also
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| includes the English horn, the bassoon, and the
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| double bassoon. But nobody listened.
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| -- mark leyner
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| et tu, babe
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|________________________________________________
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Ever struggling to keep up with culture, this issue we start with an
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amazing essay on Gilligan's Island. Then three FutureCulture postings
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from this dude verge@cyberden.sf.ca.us which includes a couple of
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checklists and a zine rant. No, i haven't seen the zine, even though
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this is the second time I let a plug for it trickle thru the surf...
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--strick
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Subject: L'ISLE DE GILLIGAN
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Subject: "The Best/Worst CP"
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Subject: FYI: "Steampunk"
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Subject: FUTURE SEX
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Source: YUCKS
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Date: Wed, 13 May 92 21:54:36 -0400
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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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Subject: L'ISLE DE GILLIGAN
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To: eniac
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Cut from little fragments of desconstruction paper and glued together
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with a perturbing semi-idiotic elegance, no Aaron Spelling flames
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please...(this was sent to me in the mail for no doubt important
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reasons):
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L'ISLE DE GILLIGAN
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Brian Morton
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The hegemonic discourse of postmodernity valorizes modes of
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expressive and "aesthetic" praxis which preclude any dialogic
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articulation (in, of course, the Bakhtinian sense) of the
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antinomies of consumer capitalism. But some emergent forms of
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discourse inscribed in popular fictions contain, as a
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constitutive element, metanarratives wherein the characteristic
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tropes of consumer capitalism are subverted even as they are
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apparently affirmed. A paradigmatic text in this regard is the
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television series _Gilligan's Island_, whose seventy-two episodes
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constitute a master-narrative of imprisonment, escape, and
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reimprisonment which eerily encodes a Lacanian construct of
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compulsive reenactment within a Foucaultian scenario of a
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panoptic social order in which resistance to power is merely one
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of the forms assumed by power itself. [1]
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The "island" of the title is a pastoral dystopia, but a
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dystopia with a difference--or, rather, a dystopia with a
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_differance_ (in, of course, the Derridean sense), for this is a
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dystopia characterized by the free play of signifier
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and signified. The key figure of "Gilligan" enacts a dialect of
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absence and presence. In his relations with the Skipper, the
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Millionaire, and the Professor, Gilligan is the repressed, the
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excluded. The Other: He is the id to the Skipper's Ego, the
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proletariat to the Millionaire's bourgeoisie, Caliban to the
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Professor's Prospero. [2] But the binarism of this duality is
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deconstructed by Gilligan's relations with Ginger the movie star.
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Here Gilligan himself is the oppressor: Under the male gaze of
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Gilligan, Ginger becomes the Feminine-as-Other, the
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interiorization of a "self" that is wholly constituted by the
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linguistic conventions of phallocratic desire (keeping in mind,
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of course, Saussure's _langue/parole_ distinction). That Ginger is
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identified as a "movie star" even in the technologically barren
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confines of the desert island foreshadows Debord's concept of the
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"society of the spectacle," wherein events and "individuals" are
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reduced to simulacra. [3] Indeed, we find a stunningly prescient
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example of what Baudrillard as called the "depthlessness" of
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American in the apparent "stupidity" of Gilligan and, indeed, of
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the entire series. [4]
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The eclipse of linearity effectuated by postmodernity, then,
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necessitates a new approach to the creation of modes of
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liberatory/expressive praxis. The monologic and repressive
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dominance of traditional "texts" (i.e., books) has been
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decentered by a dialogic discourse in which the "texts" of
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popular culture have assumed their rightful place. This has
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enormous implications for cultural and social theory. A journal
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like _Dissent_, instead of exploring the question of whether
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socialism is really dead, would make a greater contribution
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to postmodern discourse by exploring the question of whether
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Elvis is really dead. This I hope to demonstrate in a future
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study.
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FOOTNOTES
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1. Gilligan himself represents the transgressive potentialities
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of the decentered ego. See Georges Thibault, _Jouissance et
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Jalousie dans L'Isle de Gilligan_, unpublished dissertation on
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file at the Ecole Normale Superieure (St. Cloud).
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2. _Gilligan's Island_ may be periodized into an early, Barthean
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phase, in which most episodes ended with an exhibition of
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Gilliganian _jouissance_, and a second phase whose main
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inspiration is apparently that of Nietzsche, via Lyotard. The
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absence of any influence of Habermas is itself a testimony to the
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all-pervasiveness of Habermas's thought.
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3. The 1981 television movie _Escape from Gilligan's Island_
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represents a reactionary attempt to totalize what had been
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theorized in the series as an untotalizable herteroglossia, a
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_bricolage_. The late 1970s influence of the Kristevan semiotic
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needs no further comment here.
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4. Why do the early episodes privilege a discourse of metonymy?
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And what of the title--_Gilligan's Island_? In what sense is the
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island "his"? I do not have the space to pursue these questions
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here, but I hope to do so in a forthcoming book.
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Source: FutureCulture
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Subject: "The Best/Worst CP"
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From: verge@cyberden.sf.ca.us
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 19:45:08 PST
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Hawkeye, Steve & The Gang:
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Do you pester the magician to reveal the secrets of his tricks? Do you
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read the last page of a mystery first? Whatever happened to the wonder of
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life? One of favorite quotes, from the domain of the theatre: "Don't Let
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The Wheels Show". Alas & Alack, this is, afterall, the Age of
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Information, so I guess simple statement without the "road to--" won't
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do. So under several hundred (or, at least one) peers of pressure, here's
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the wheels to my mystery, "The Best/Worst CP":
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--so there. Feh!
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Best Nonfiction: _The Hacker Crackdown_ by B. Sterling
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--not only raw data, but a damned good writer's slant. Who else to write
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about the cyberpunks but one of the guys who made us up in the first
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place?
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Worst Nonfiction: _Mondo's Guide to the New Edge_
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--Stylish zammin' and zippin', coastin' and speedin' bod but no brains
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(Rudy--sob--how could you?). Besides, man, hey got the number to the
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Cyberden--see below--WRONG!)
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Best Fiction: _Bad Voltage_ by Jonathan Littell
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--The coolest (far better than _Mona Lisa_)! Kids out for naught but
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kicks, bi-sexuality, skyrocket wargames in the sewers of Paris, the corp
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comes crashing at the end, but it ain't "Let's save the world" but "Fuck
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you, rich kid!". Recommended!
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Worst Fiction: _Johnny Zed_ by John Gregory Betancourt
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--Naught but cover-to-cover line noise with cute cover art. Bleh!
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Best Invention: Mac Powerbooks
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--Portable, user-friendly, CD-ROM, 8/80, fax/modem in your briefcase.
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Worst Invention: Mac Powerbooks
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--LCD screen. Ever try to do anything serious?
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Best Flick: _WAX - or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees_ & _The
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Falls_
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--I love trips through other folk's disturbed psyches. More Dick that CP,
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both are better than Hollywood's "acceptable" view of a CP century (save
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_Blade_ but everyone puts THAT one on their lists!).
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Worst Flick: _The Lawnmower Man_
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--Do you _have_ to ask why?
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Best 'zine: bOING-bOING, 2600 (tie)
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--BB for the creative, 2600 for the anal pros
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Worst 'zine: MONDO 2000
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--body of death, brains of a road-kill. Whoever thought CP could be
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stupid?
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Best Drug: The new Acid
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--You can fuck and come on it.
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Worst Drug: X
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--You can't fuck and come on it.
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Best Tune: "Even Better Than The Real Thing" U2 & "Free Your Mind" En
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Vogue
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--ZOO TV. They, dudes, I think they might be getting it. Black plastic,
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cornball VR, give 'em a few years and they might just be hip enough to be
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CP cool. En Vogue: I like 'em black ladies, dey make me so horny--
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Worst Tune: Anything by U2 after the Negitiveland suit
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--the lawyers and suits for the The Rock n' Roll Ethnic Rebels( (Irish
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line) thought they might loose candy money over the haha's of our local
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boys. Brought out the big guns and squashed de little guys flat. Somebody
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crash those fucker's accounting records--
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Best Corporate Moment: Desert Storm
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--Brought to you buy General Electric. We make great refrigerators, too.
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Worst Corporate Moment: Donald Trump & Ivan Bosky (tie)
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--"PAY NO ATTENTION TO THOSE MEN BEHIND THE LOGOS!"
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Best Punk Moment: The LA Revolution
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--"Three meals, one day without power, and a moment captured on
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tape--away from Revolution!
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Worst Punk Moment: The Negitiveland suit
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--ibid
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Best Hack Moment: Decrypting AGRIPPA
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--Okay, an over-the-counter (the real best is the stuff you don't see
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except for the scalp waving in the air). But cool, none-the-less. Bummer
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was that it took so damned long--
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Worst Hack Moment: Snitching during "Operation Sun Devil"
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--Guys in suits. Knock, knock--and will do anything not to share a cell
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with a Hells Angel.
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Best Program: "Beyond Cyperpunk"
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--Major suck-up. Me wanna work on the sequel stack!
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Worst Program: Windows
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--Go buy a fuckin' Mac!
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Best Event: The Ministry at Lalapaloosa
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--Full of sound, fury, lights, tech, signifying something (I guess). But
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still soooo cool.
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Worst Event: Gay-bashing at Lalapaloosa
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--I have seen the future and it is mean, nasty, and stupid.
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Best Sex: The new S/M
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--there was this sweet little Mistress, and what we didn't have was quite
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sex, but, still, quite, quite QUITE HOT!
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Worst Sex: Hep A, B, & C*
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--*Easier to catch than the red ribbon, no remedy, kills faster.
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Best Future Culture Discussion: Is it or isn't it W. Gibson? And who
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cares?
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--IT'S REALLY HIM. IT'S REALLY HIM. Okay, okay, it MIGHT REALLY BE HIM!
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Worst Future Culture Discussion: AUtopia -- will there be punks in
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paradise?
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--Utopias make me nervous. Who makes the rules? Barely-surviving &
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being-independant makes for some hard-edge choices/decisions. I perfer to
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live in the cracks, in my own weird world, than start to act like a
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Heinlein hero.
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Best Personality: P'Orridge
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--"Wanna see my modified genitalia?"
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Worst Personality: Sandra Bernhardt
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--Is she or isn't she gay/straight/bi? Who cares? For certain: SHE'S A
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PRICK!
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tha-tha-that's all folks!
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Verge
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pere Ubu sez:
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"Surrealism au service de la revolution!"
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Verge sez:
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"Got me if it's right or not. Looks cool. You get the gist, and I stole
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it from Kadrey"
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Source: FutureCulture
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Subject: FYI: "Steampunk"
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From: verge@cyberden.sf.ca.us
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 19:57:00 PST
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Hawkeye & The Gang:
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Whoa, son, I say, whoa--what's all this (line) noise from Dave about the
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punks being disbanded--DISBANDED, I SAY (WHERE THE HELL'S THE VOLUME ON
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THIS-HERE THANG??!)
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(Ahem) anyway, if my name isn't Raul Duke (and it isn't) CP's about as
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dead as one of Dr. Adder's patients with a live wire up her--anyway. CP
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continues to be written, hacked out, hacked with, lived by (been to SF,
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NY, LA lately?). We still got the S's (Shirley, Shiner, Shepard,
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Sterling), the R's (Russo, Rucker), Gibson, Farren, Williams, et all.
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RE/Search is still out there, Semiotext(e) is still plugging away,
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Autodesk hasn't folded (but--agast--so hasn't MONDO), Future Sex is still
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(ahem) plugging away. "Bob" is still in his
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heaven--BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH--
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Yeah, but I didn't come to praise Ceasar. FYI: "Steampunk", cute twist of
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coinage to mean fantasies (usually) set in either alternia or hidden past
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Victorian (or somesuch) world. Right now, Sterling/Gibson's BLEH!
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_Difference Engine_ is being banded around. Poor example. Check out,
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instead:
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Jeter's _Infernal Devices_
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Powers's _The Anubis Gates_
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Blaylock _Homoculous_ (Powers/Blaylock are masters of this)
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Powers's _On Stranger Tides_
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H. Harrison's _A Transatlantic Tunnel "Hurrah!"_ (slipstream Steampunk)
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Lupoff's _Circumpolar_ (has written others like, sort-of slipstream).
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--BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH--
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as for "slipstream" hope more enlightened cybersea surfers will
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enlighten. Me? The boss is walking this way--
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Verge
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pere Ubu sez:
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"Surrealism au service de la revolution!"
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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________________________________________________________________________
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Source: FutureCulture
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Subject: FUTURE SEX
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From: verge@cyberden.sf.ca.us
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 19:56:14 PST
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Hawkeye & The Gang:
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In response to Murali's (?) of FUTURE SEX, here's a little ramble down
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ascii lane about that certain 'zine. Music please--
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"--there was this little 'zine, not at all wonderful to see. A brilliant
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little spark, but boring through and through. The first issue was a bust
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(and Natillie certainly has those), but Kadrey on VR sex, fairly hot
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cybersex tales, Shirley stoking the fires of feminism with his "from the
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edge" postcards of Tai prostitues and their "almost seem to enjoy it".
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Lisa Palac is the ediatrix, of noble birth and grand qualifications:
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having taken the helm of the outrageous and Nobel-prize winning lesbo
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'zine _On Our Backs_. After that, we come to learn, she got dumped on
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this project. Knowing this, the first issue (being Natillie's bust) is
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excusable.
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"--now issue two just hit the stands, and while it ain't right before me,
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I can report to the committee it's kinky attitude, it's crotch shots,
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good photos, Saenz doin' the MacPlaymate/Valerie thang (with his VR sex
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gizmo gatefold that's cool to beheld. A lady who had bad words for FC,
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has her time in the sun-guns, naked and soft she basks, in the 'zine she
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lambasts. The one and only Carol Queen does a review, and the 'zine is
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better than before, though never better than the real thang--"
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One change, though, get out your pen and pencils folks, you got the suite
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wrong:
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FUTURE
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SEX
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1095 Market Street
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Suite *809*
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SF, CA 94103
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--I have their office number, so give 'em a call (it's printed in the
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'zine, so it ain't a big score):
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(415) 621-5496
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It's recommended, can't wait for number three, or four. Ah, but I may
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have reason to be predjudiced about number four--
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Verge
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pere Ubu sez:
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"Surrealism au service de la revolution!"
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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________________________________________________________________________
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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________________________________________________________________________
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Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. Thanks, babe.
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