transference 2.0

again. been a while. again. kind of moving.

have a lot less free time than the old blogging days. kind of disappointing actually. but feeling the itch just a bit.

dunno. we’ll see where this all goes.

transference

i've kind of switched over to wordpress.

you can check me out there.

i've moved most of all of my old posts from here to there.

it's still Mindless & Whimsical Rantings.

though blogger has added some new features which makes it slightly more appealing now.
but i just don't like google.

whatever.

furthering the electronic reveloution

though i do not recommend all of william s. burroughs writings, i do suggest you peruse "the electronic reveloution".......something i’ve pondered over myself a few times.

getting beyond his obsession with orgasm, masturbation, & sex in general, he describes a quite interesting experiment. basically using the cut-up technique with video/audio/photos to affect other people’s moods & actions. a form of brainwashing perhaps? covert warfare of a sorts? or just plain revenge? maybe some fun too. if his experiments went as he said they did…..well, don’t you wonder what technology is capable of all these decades later? we are affected by every wave that passes through us–electrical, micro, radio, etc–what do each of these & the combination of these waveforms do to our mind-computer & body-machine? hmmmmmmmm? it’s certainly not nothing. just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they’re not there. you do turn on your radio & hear music. you do talk on your cell phone. (by the way, don’t live near a cell phone tower!)

i’ll include some samples from the ER:

“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….”

“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 couldn’t 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 don’t.

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 DISGRACEFUL 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 spoken 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 burglary. 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.”

entertaining to say the least.

fresh rants

this has been a pretty stressful week, even for living in the woods! that’s what comes from living only an hour from your so-called family i guess. especially a grudge-holding family. but we’re not talking justified grudges. no, pulled-completely-out-of-your-ass grudges. which at this point i’m tired of dealing with harmful & hindering insanity, so i’m looking for a new patch of woods much farther away. surprisingly i actually can think for myself. or at least i’m quite allowed to have my own opinion (in my opinion!).......and just because someone turns out different from you doesn’t mean they’re purposely being evil and ruining your life because they want to live their own. I mean if i was 2 i couldn’t do much about it, i might even expect that kind of (eternal) reaction, but god i’m almost 30. and i am not having children just to perpetuate my little part of humanity. with 10 grandchildren already, i don’t think anymore are needed. especially just for the sake of having kids. i don’t feel so great about the way society & the world are operating as it is, why would i want to force someone else into it? plus i actually can’t afford kids. i just wish more people would think a little bit & prevent “accidental” pregnancies. then we wouldn’t have unprepared parents & real live soap operas. and children are definitely not the way to get your ex to come back. and then overdose your kid on medicine at least twice a month. yeah, that’s going to help them develop well. you’d think there was enough sodium flouide in the water supplies (& toothpaste) to have sterilized everyone by now. but i guess it’s not quite as high yet as the levels in those “special little places” in 1940s germany.

no don’t get me started on fascism. (F.A.S.C.I.S.T. ACT and more!)

ladies check out the link “for ladies only.” though really, all men should get informed & take an active role in contraception too. ’cause it takes 2 to make 1.

the best thing really is that fierce wind right before a storm, when the skies turn grey, the clouds rush in, and you can only marvel at nature’s power (and hope it prevails).

strange weather

i just thought this site was interesting. you can graph anything you want. could be useful to you, and one day might be part of someone's art (john tonkin, to be specific). check out the link in the sidebar. or just go here.

here's the description from the site itself (and i'm quoting it word for word):

"In his Metaphysics, Aristotle remarked that 'all men by nature desire to know.' This desire springs from a need to somehow organise our observations of Nature, as well as the events and activities of daily life, into some sort of coherent pattern we call 'reality'."
J L Casti, Alternate Realities: Mathematical Models of Nature and Man.

Strange Weather is a long-term project that is currently recruiting users interested in making sense of life. It consists of two components: Firstly, a database that accumulates personal indicators entered by its users (eg. index of well-being, body temperature, alcohol consumption) along with external indicators harvested from the internet (eg. weather in various cities, stock trading indexes, political approval rates, river heights). Secondly, a number of visualisation tools that enable users to mine this collaborative data warehouse, revealing patterns and underlying relationships in the seemingly obscure and unrelated data.

"If I drink 2 coffees a day, get 8 hours sleep and my bank balance is above $500 then my average heart rate at moment of orgasm goes up to 140 bpm."

Chaos theory suggests that the causal relationships in natural systems are complex, unpredictable and interrelated. The "butterfly effect", an often cited example, states that a butterfly's wing flapping in one part of the world might cause a storm elsewhere. Strange Weather enables the user to track the consequences of their small actions on global events.

"Hmmm, when the consistency of my shit is soft, I get less than 5 hours sleep, and spend more than 180 minutes online the Dow Jones Index falls."

This project grew out of my ongoing interest in enlightenment science and a number of scientists of that period. Cesare Lombroso, for example, took obvious delight in classification and structure, weaving and conflating the disparate data he accumulated into complex nets of correlation in order to prove his theories of deviancy. Much of my work has investigated the idea of science as a belief system. While historically western science has prided itself on its objective pursuit of "truth", scientific research is obviously influenced by the world-view of its practitioners and the cultural values of their period.

Strange Weather is a visible manifestation of the desire to make understandable, that which normally falls outside of the scale of our comprehension. Our attempts to understand the world and ourselves seem to be both admirable and absurd. Colliding the personal with the global, Strange Weather is a diagnostic tool that both elucidates and confounds.

it is some rather strange weather we're having though, isn't it?