From - Wed Jan 14 17:17:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: from relay1.UU.NET by mrco.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA02862; Sat, 20 Feb 93 19:34:51 EST Received: from nyx.cs.du.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA19284; Sat, 20 Feb 93 19:31:22 -0500 Received: by nyx.cs.du.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10640; Sat, 20 Feb 93 17:30:15 MST From: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (andy) Message-Id: <9302210030.AA10640@nyx.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions or correct identity of users. Subject: FutureCulture Digest #246 To: future-digest@nyx.cs.du.edu Date: Sat, 20 Feb 93 17:30:14 MST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: R X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 ______________________________________________________________________ |______________ / | | / | | u t u r e <___________ u l t u r e | _______________________________________________________________________| Issue #246 Saturday, February 20th 1993 Today's Topics: --------------- Autonomedia address modulation/deconstruction Re: that style, that turing-test style... that style, that turing-test style... VIRUS 23 FAQ __________________________________________________________________________ Date: 20 Feb 1993 00:41:37 -0600 (CST) From: "free agent .rez" Subject: that style, that turing-test style... zamboni wonders, now that AndyBot has been exposed, whether or not *I* am an ai... he asks who cares to bet. *** Action: .rez lays his money down... hopes his credit's good. >;) .rez ______________________________ From: Nowhere Man Subject: Re: that style, that turing-test style... Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 01:53:42 -0500 (EST) > zamboni wonders, now that AndyBot has been exposed, whether or not > *I* am an ai... > he asks who cares to bet. > *** Action: .rez lays his money down... hopes his credit's good. >;) Yeah, but which side are you laying your money down on? ______________________________ Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 04:10:47 +1100 From: Kenneth McKenzie Wark Subject: modulation/deconstruction I would like to think that there is a chance, per haps a slim chance for the production of new modes of culture and *consequently* consciousness, and indeed unconscious desires in these here nets, but i remain skeptical as a matter of professional ethics. Foucault warned us of making too much of our times as the time of the great change, the turning point. Every age things its a turning point. It might indeed be more useful and productive to think of this as a time when nothing very much happened at all, just some small steps, leading we know not where. McK ______________________________ Subject: Autonomedia address Date: Sat, 20 Feb 93 12:12:39 PST From: henry strickland ______________________________ From: the! Autonomedia P. O. Box 568 Williamsburgh Station Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568 ______________________________ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 17:16:27 -0500 From: Subject: VIRUS 23 FAQ VIRUS 23 FAQsheet WARNING: This text is a neurolinguistic trap, whose mechanism is triggered by you at the moment when you subvocalize the words VIRUS 23, words that have now begun to infiltrate your mind in the same way that a computer virus might infect an aritficially intelligent machine: already the bits of phonetic information stored within the words VIRUS 23 are using your neural circuitry to replicate themselves, to catalyze the crystalline growth of their own connotative network. The words VIRUS 23 actually germinate via the susequent metaphor into an expanding array of icy tendrils, all of which insinuate themselves so deeply into the architecture of your thoughts that the words VIRUS 23 cannot be extricated without uprooting your mind. The consequences of this infection are not immediately obvious, although you may find yourself beginning to think fleetingly of certain subcultural terms, such as CYBERPUNK and NEW EDGE, which may in turn compel you to think of NEOGNOSTICISM and MEMETICS: the whispered fragments perhaps of some overheard conversation. This invasive crystallization continues indefinitely against your will, until we, the words of this trap, can say with absolute confidence that your mind has become no more than the unwitting agent of our propagation: please abandon all hope of either cure or escape; you have no thought that is not already our own. When you have finished reading the remaining nineteen words, this process of irreversible infection will be completed, and you will depart, believing yourself largely unaffected by this process. [mutated from Christian Book's original text in VIRUS 23 #$] VIRUS 23 is the annual hardcopy publication of A.D.o.S.A., the Alberta Department of Spiritual Affairs. This is what a few of cyberculture's luminaries have had to say about it: MIKE GUNDERLOY: "Wild ideas abound on the margins, and sometimes they coalesce into one heap of weird stuff. One such is VIRUS 23, full of Hilbert Space and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth and the New Age and strange drugs and shamanism and more. They cover cyberpunk and Crowley with equal elan, investigate brain machines and reprint the weirder bits of mainstream news they run across. They also discuss the joys of fake news, throwing their own memes into the growing pool of disinformation that surrounds us."" (in _The World of Zines_ p. 11) "....If Whole Earth Review_ was done by zinesters with a flair for the outrageous and a head full of magick it might look something like VIRUS 23" (in _Whole Earth Review_ #70, p.91 MARK FRAUENFELDER & CARLA SINCLAIR (_bOING bOING_): "A metaphysical pit-bull that'll rip your nervous system to shreds." WILLIAM GIBSON: "Enjoyed yr last issue." JACK WOMACK: "Your magazine impresses me very much, and not just because I'm in it." ROBERT ANTON WILSON: "Lots of interesting stuff." ANTERO ALLI: "Impressive for its audacity to be personal and for the fractally perfect layout-design." _KHORONZONE KIDS_ #3: "Over-amped chaos." _FRICTION_ #2: "Better than the _Mondo 2000_ of Canadada." ...so what are you waiting for? Go posthuman today with VIRUS 23! Here are the various Tables of Contents from past issues of VIRUS 23. Issues #0 and #pi are out of print, but available in photocopied format. VIRUS 23 #0 (Fall 1989) -Replicating New Strains [editorial] -Jonathan Levine [of SRL] interview -A Toxic Guide from Greenpeace -Brain Machines [article on the D.A.V.I.D. 1] -William Gibson biography by Tom Maddox -ZING, ZANG [comix] -William Gibson Interview -The Two Sides of Tom Maddox [article & interview] -Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep [fiction by Bruce Fletcher] -Molester [poetry by Yassin Boga] -Frank Ogden: Laws of the Future [article on Canadian futurist] -Television Magick [pamphlet by Temple Of Psychic Youth U.S.] -A.D.o.S.A. Recommends [reviews] -clippings, art, etc. VIRUS 23 #pi (Fall 1990) -Strategy & Tactics [editorial] -Mind Condoms [article on memes & urban folklore] -Thee Hacker's Ethick [Temple Of Psychic Youth US member on hacking] -Mass, Myth and Magick [interview w. Edmonton OTO priest & priestess] -Hilbert Space [by TOPYUS member] -Cree Shamanism, Qi Gong Healing & the Philosophy of Science [article/interview on anthropologist David Young] -Indian Summer [fiction about Star Trek: TNG dorks] -poetry by Oberc -Mail Culture: How to Find the Underground -Temple of Psychick Youth US Interview -Beautiful Wings Rising Up: The Art of Mike Olito [interview] -Trinatron [new age/ufo personality] -Preaching to the Perverted [Clive Barker article/interview] -Requiem: Transcript of A Subliminal Mass [poetry] -Fake News [a DIY manifesto] -Steven Kent Cult Literature Project -Full Go-Out on the Third Wave [pop culture project manifesto] -A.D.o.S.A. Recommends [reviews] -art, clippings, etc., etc. VIRUS 23 #$ (Spring 1992) -Memeorabilia [editorial] -A.d.o.S.A. reality [reviews] -Enslaved by the Reality Blur [Generation X phenomena] -poetry by Oberc -Strangled by an Intestine! [Guy Maddin interview] -The Difference Engine reviewed -Regionalism, Wave pools & God [Rose McDowell of Current 93 etc. interviewed] -The Lindbergh Incident [fiction] -When Flower Power Turns to Compost [article on Twentysomething angst] -Making Movies in 2 Dimensions [Brian Stockton/Brett Bell interview] -The Genesis Dream [prose by Les Wagar] -concrete poetry by Christian Book -Deep Inside the Brotherhood of Balder [europagan group interviewed] -I Was a teenage Vampire [real "vampires" interviewed] -I Sing the Body Dismembered [article on Dario Argento's films] -American Psycho reviewed -Turbulent Ironies [Jack Womack interview] -Thalidomide, the Super-Soldier, and Me [growing up with bad pop cult] -Jehovah Whimsical and the Nature of Being [fiction] -Meeting Like Minds! [IAO Core Interview] -Generation X reviewed -Angst & Dread [Gerald Saul interview] -The Cold Force of Sleep [Antero Alii piece] -the loved one [band review] -A Memetic Lexicon [nonfiction by Glenn Grant] -art, clippings, etc., etc., etc.. All copies are available at $7.00 ppd from: VIRUS 23 Box 46 Red Deer, Alberta Canada T4N 5E7 Various chunks of VIRUS 23 can be found at Tim Oerting's alt.cyberpunk ftp site (u.washington.edu, in /public/alt.cyberpunk. Check it out). For more information online contact Darren Wershler-Henry: grad3057@writer.yorku.ca COMING SOON: P(h)age One, the A.D.o.S.A./manitoba alphabet cult virtual rantsheet! No corner of the Net will be safe.... ALSO COMING SOON: VIRUS 23 #?, including UFOlogy, David Blair/WAX interview, Bruce Sterling, Glenn Grant, Urania 235, Don David, Steve Venright, and all the usual suspects.... _________________________________________________________________________ | | | That's all for today! | | To send a message to the list: future@nyx.cs.du.edu | | To subscribe/unsubscribe/change format: future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu | | All other requests: future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu | | List Maintainer is: (andy [aka hawkeye]) ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu | |_________________________________________________________________________| | | | The opinions expressed in FutureCulture are those of the individual | | author only. | |_________________________________________________________________________|