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Barriminge
Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 12/25/2004 5:05:41 AM by Barriminge |
Our Soul
replied on: 12/10/2004 3:51:39 AM quote: Dear King, I shall reply to to your posting by quoting a few 'texts' as you clearly have command of reference to many such from Napalm Death to the Ginnungagap.I read your posting today which mentioned adoption and your implied accusation could be summed up by a phrase that came to mind which was 'bourgeois sentimentality'. You clearly have bigger fish to fry socially and politically and your reference to the 'spectacle' suggests that your project would line itself up with the specto-Situationist one which seeks to merge political action with the avant-garde.First of all though what could be more avant-garde than introducing actual magic into a literary project which merges texts and replicates them through the ACOP, and to resurrect 'bourgeois sentimentality' at the same time. A true merging of the avant-garde with the arriere-garde.And impossible to recuperate by the capitalist production conspiracies since it can only be done once. Secondly though Mitton like Joblard/Catling is NOT overly sentimental about his adoptive status.You've missed the point.It's the geometry of the texts that is important since that demonstrates the ACOP.By coincidence,his own accords in some ways with your own and, by coincidence, Joblard's : "He saw his real mother and he blessed her.In her youth. Then. She is fixed. I will leave her;losing nothing,leaving nothing,holding on to that strength.The blessing of a double parentage, of blood and of habit. The habit of love.Years of trust bringing me back, returning me to a new beginning.". (Downriver. P.390.) The full quote in the graveyard was: "I knew that one day you would come.Now I can die in piece. Kiss me son." Unfortuneately, Heath,people do have these sentimental experiences.This is probably why Howard Goodall in his programme about the history of popular music on Channel 4 the other night opines that the avant-garde have driven themselves into a ditch that made them very replaceable in the popular mind by self-taught geniuses like the Beatles and Cole Porter. I was mulling over this question of sentimentality when I was mooching around the library with Charlie Mitton today and came upon the current copy of the TLS which featured a review of Marxist critic Terry Eagleton's new book on the history of literature. It says: "Pausing on the sentimental aspects of Dickens fiction,Eagleton explains, ' Sentimentality is the feel-good factor of middle-class society'.Just in case you hesitate (are working- class people not sentimental too?), the no-nonsense illustration arrives.'This is one reason why company executives who beat their wives or who throw thousands out of work can be moved to tears by images of ageing donkeys or starving children.'The book is full of these apparently debunking, in fact sententious, flourishes." I say this because just to compound the coincidence I accidentally unthinkingly put the mag in my pocket and forgot and walked out of the library with it.The 'force' must have known that I might need to quote it.He goes on to mention 'epiphanies' being middle-class as well but there you go. The third quote is from Stewart Home who should know somethimg of the 'society of the spectacle': " The avant-garde is in many ways a return to the repressed, the re-emergence of Protestant iconoclasm in a post- Christian world where art serves as a secular religion justifying the activities of a murderous ruling class.For example in 1441 Hugh Knight went into a Cornish church and burnt the chin off a statue of the Virgin Mary. The result was a work in which the Virgin appeared to have grown a beard, making this act of image-breaking an important precurser to Duchamp's moustached Mona Lisa. The Specto-Situationist obsession with text is an inevitable result of the group's assault on the image. Guy Debord would have felt very much at home if he'd had the opportunity to hang out with the Bible-thumping Lollards of the middle ages. The word is sacred, idolatry ( the dominance of the Spectacle)an ever-lasting sin. Before heaven is realized on earth and every wo/man can live in their own cathedral, the word must be accepted and the sensuous image stamped into the ground by a legion of jack-booted Debordists. The critique of the image made by Gustav Metzger who used acid to simultaneously create and destroy 'auto-destructive' artworks, was a far more inscisive response to Judaic, Islamic and Protestant traditions of iconoclasm than that of the Specto- Situationists." I don't know about all this but I thought I'd throw it in because of a coincidence. It was written in 1993 for the forthcoming Creation Press publication, 'Negation:The Last Book' edited by our own spotter of 'universes within universes', Jack Sergeant. The real matter-at-hand might therefore be best acheived by the non-recuperable exploitation of the coincidence of contrarieties. Remember that their Magus Sinclair is forever creating, dualities,opposites, prattling on about twins, the same but contrary.There is Driffield and Stone; Peter Whitehead and Howard Marks: Hyle and Hand: The Ketamine Kreeps; himself and 'Joblard' - The Caduceus. |
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trystero
Rank: Toyah This message was updated on 12/10/2004 11:11:51 AM by trystero |
In Search of Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/10/2004 11:10:21 AM An interesting ACOP: http://www.digital-magic.co.uk/equiphallicalliance/what.htm Got there via Stuart Home, who doesn't know his parents either. You'll have to cut n paste this one. |
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Spilway
This message was updated on 12/11/2004 4:16:10 AM by Spilway |
In Search of Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/11/2004 4:11:17 AM quote: " POEMS BY DR. CHARLES MINTERN from FIELD BOOK #2 1 Tricorn It was utopia - a built space - and there for us. We let it down, to no purpose, that edifice, leaving it objectified, 12 acres, empty. O my soul, you are lost - an aspect of identity - and I did not walk in your absences. You are my foundation stone, my love, and what I know of self exists in you. A far spire, seen from above - the rooftops of a city underlit - reflected off the sea. I have this: a word becoming the ideal I would be protective of, as if it might mean much to me." This could have been slightly altered and been a poem of protest by our own Dr. Charles Mitton on the knocking down of the old Bull Ring where he learnt to exploit many of of his psychogeographical instincts. It is of course, Tristero, said to be attributed to Dr. Charles Mintern, the leading light of the Equi- Phallic Alliance, who disappeared and hasn't been seen since 1992 when Stephen Glazier died and Charlie Mitton first started having these strange coincidences.One theory is that he has become the Charlie Mitton. This is really weird, Tristero, coz some years ago, before Charlie had actually read anything by Stewart Home, he had obtained a pamphlet which he noticed had on it this name, Dr. Charles Mintern and it seemed to recall the occult grammar that had given him a name so similar to the drunkard Mad Sir Jack Mytton.Another example of Mitty producing the magick that the London Mob can only write about. It is doubly weird that you should find it, Tryst, especially when you also unearthed the Synchromesh' website which came from Birmingham, Alabama and the Littlewood/Stockwell site which spoke of a type of literature of which the present thread is the very essence. And then there is the fact that the Tristero system as it is suggested in Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49' is as shadowy a trope as your own contributions to this site suggest.I have to say though that these are the most eerie and labyrinthine than any of the others thrown up by the involvement of the Major Triad on this site. Indeed the number '49' has been linked to the Bardo state of Tibetan Buddhists which lasts for 49 days and which has been linked by philosophers of science to the creative pleroma of Jung who also had read esoteric symbolism in that number. And then it was to do with'crying' and it mysteriously recalls the death of the mothers of both Charlie and his son.Your referencing however of this 'Equi-Phallic' site is also very odd. It relates to that pamphlet mentioned earlier which Chaz had picked up somewhere and had the 'Mintern' name. The 'Dr.' title is again a coincidence since the sub-title of 'The Post- Modern Blues Prophecy' is 'A post-Doctoral Thesis Novel'. Maybe he became the missing Dr. Charles Mintern. All this makes sense if viewed in terms of the synchronic metalogic which we have already discussed.And you bring it up on P. 23 thereby adding to the '23 Enigma'.At this point we are really deconsructing Western metaphysics in the city of B'ham and for this Charlie deserves any awards or accolades which come his way.It's amazing that you brought this URL up coz he had ripped the pamphlet,lost the important bit and had only had a peep at its contents and had resolved to find out about it but in the mists of time he forgot about it even after meeting Stewart Home himself. You might like to know that he found out that Stewart's mother died in 1979 as well as his own. He has told him that she was a beatnik and died young. She also knew Davy Graham,Colin MacInnis and Alexander Trocchi.He never did find out about Dr. Mintern or indeed 'nonism'but here it is!! Now therein lies another srange ACOP since this very morning I, Barri had been thinking of how the scientist David Bohm had talked about his implicate and super- implicate orders ( which resemble speculations on the pleroma and morphogenetic fields) as simply 'being'. It just is. This recalls the academic Brian McHale's assertion in his 'Constructing Postmodernism'(Routledge 1992) that there is much in what has been called postmodern literature which reflects a movement from the epistemological to the ontological dominant, from systems of knowing to systems of being.His prime example is in the work of Pynchon particularly 'The Crying of Lot49'. It's all beginning to make sense. F. David Peat in 'Synchronicity' also mentions the Bardo state (49) and also theorizes on how there might be two systems of logic one of which answers the paradoxes of the other. The Spenser- Brown one fills in the non-sequitors of symbolic logic.'The paradox is generally stated in the form of a barber who is in the special position of shaving all men who do not shave themselves.Who shaves the barber?' ( Peat P.201) Spenser- Brown's logic, to cut a long story short, answers the question of self-referentiality and the contextlessness of the void in which the initial act of creative perception is made.This undifferentiated act of creative perception is what we do when we countenance synchronicity. It simply is. The Equi- Phallic website tells us about 'nonism' and Dr. Charles Mintern's interest in 'an ontological poetics'.This states exactly what I had been thinking before I had read your posting.It was again as though some intelligent 'force' in the universe had provided it just as I needed it and so strengthens the validity of the original thesis.Amazing.It seems to be what David bohm talked about when he said that it was as though some abstract force is using you to demonstrate an experiment. Oddly the conclusion of the experiment would be that the force itself exists.It is demonstrating its own existence!!!! McHale who writes on literary postmodernism talks about much of it being in the key of 'as if'.In other words it is interesting and compelling and has a 'being' of its own but like aspects of quantum physics can't ultimately be 'known'.It's 'as if'the internet link which Tristero/Trystero gives references an avatar of our own Charles Mitton/Mintern while himself/herself being a literary one corresponding to Pynchon's construction.It's only a short leap of faith which equates this with Jungian archetypes which may function to balance the sobriety of the rational with the joker quality of the irrational. It is in the space of the 'irrational' that many of our favourites from art and literature dwell. |
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500ARIEL
Rank: Toyah |
In Search of Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/11/2004 10:25:18 AM Will Charlie be here tonight? An insider tells me he is in with a shout. |
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trystero
Rank: Toyah |
In Search of Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/13/2004 10:07:47 AM quote: All I did was read Serena Roney-Dougal and Landor's Tower at the same time. Thanks for the booklist it sure beats Debord. |
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H.J.
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In Search of Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/15/2004 1:20:01 PM How did the fav brummie award pan out? it would be helpful if bounder would post the result, as a sign of appreciation of all of those who took part |
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500ARIEL
Rank: Toyah |
In Search of Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/15/2004 7:34:29 PM the winner is.... |
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trystero
Rank: Toyah |
winner
replied on: 12/15/2004 9:10:28 PM Well its worth more than just a warmed up Vic and Bob meets Viz 1989 night at the Hare and Hounds considering Charlie won then. Bouder, why did we not get the info sooner, he was clearly ahead days before? Can KoTH do a benefit again at the Royal George? Can't we even over-ambitiously re-open The Mothers? |
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500ARIEL
Rank: Toyah |
winner
replied on: 12/15/2004 9:56:01 PM I believe that there is a formal banquet for the winner at the Council House. I woul rather like to be invited but quite understand if I am not. |
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H.J.
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winner
replied on: 12/18/2004 9:46:03 PM while we wait breathlessly for the revelations of page 23 to role around which could be a few days yet, a personal matter of a child being born out of wedlock to a women friend at age 22 and subsequently adopted is well and truely etched on my memory,symptoms of which I have never found a constructive use for,perhaps I may yet be enlightened, we can live in hope |
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Spilway
This message was updated on 12/23/2004 8:51:25 AM by Spilway |
winner
replied on: 12/23/2004 8:40:42 AM quote: O.K.H.J., The Major Triad has been involved in heavy research and are about to come out with the piece de resistance, coup de grace and any posy French phrase that you don't know the meaning of so stay off this thread with any of your incoherent ramblings. They're as incoherent as your harp playing. You're sacked! you can get a gig with Chicken Bone John or I'll sentence you to a night out with Matey. This is Charlie's birthday party so stay off the thread and that applies to anyone else who has been slinging vilification about over the last year and a half. He hasn't got long and wishes to spend today with the Major Triad and a very special guest. For anyone else that's interested we've solved the problem of the missing Dr.Charles Mintern which has been spoken about by the Equi-Phallic Alliance and that skunk rocker and bad mouther, Stewart Home. He's the mouth of the London Mob and Charlie said he saw him first with the Magus, Iain Sinclair at the I.C.A. asking a bunch of poseurs what was the opposite of a dog.Well, we've got the answer to that and it's in Peter Whitehead's book 'The Risen'.The dog is the Cursed Man and his opposite is what you like. The Cursed Man is the one that breaks the Code and you see what happened to Matey. The London Mob have played around with the Egyptian gods ( they've even taken Thoth's name in vain). They made the first mark in the Void. Sinclair spoke of Poles and Stones and went on quests in triangles but was never able to produce much more than wordy evasions.By placing against them the 23rd Brumaire we have effectively produced the magick. The devastating fusion of opposites that the Magus has always been hintoning at in his grimoires. The fact is that, like Ariel at the beginning of the first Mitton thread on this site, they make an unconditioned act of perception in the void by identifying Dr. Charles Mintern who disappeared just as Charlie was beginning to experience these very strange ACOPs.Our own Chaz seemed to develop some odd relationship with the acausal.It's all now in these BINS threads. Most significantly for us over the last few weeks have been the strange cybersynergies unearthed by the shadowy Trystero/Tristero.We have indeed created an 'impossibility fiction' which has used the new technology and has produced something which is devastatingly new.It kicks creative writing into the next dimension. We've produced the ACOP in cyberspace and its identified that most labyrynthine of ex-punks, Stewart Home. Whether he is the unknown Neoist or not he anticipated Dr. Mintern's presence in Bristol. By some transmorphication of personality Mitton became Mintern which by our stated metalogic makes perfect sense.Voidism is Nonism.Placeism is the identification of place as only the place identifiable to the senses. Charlie had already isomorphed by occult geometry St.Thomas's, Holloway Head with another St. Thomas's on the Isle of Sheppey.Now we find the Bull Ring isomorphed with the Tricorn in Portsmouth or is it Southampton. In some of this Neoist/Equi-Phallic literature it was said that Dr. Mintern's poetry had been written under the name David Caddy. Charlie says that he remembered after having been given this name that he believed that he had the guy's number and he did. So last night he phoned him and Caddy knew nothing of the meaning of the Dr. Mintern search but remembered the name being used By someone called Andrew Jordan who was discovered by an internet search to be a minor poet based in Southampton.It must have been he who had collaborated with Stewart Home in the search for Dr. Mintern. Little did they know that he would turn up one day. The telephone conversation with Dave Caddy revaled that Jordan was a disgruntled poet who harboured a resentment against Mr. Caddy and one Dr.Brian Hinton (Mintern/ Hintern?). and had tried on various occasions to make life uncomfortable for them. Now the real Dr. Mintern has turned up to expose them and the London Mob as frauds and charlatans completely unable to produce any notable magick. Brian Hinton, of course, (like Mitton and Matey) had been misrepresented by their arch-psychogeographer Sinclair in a number of his books as 'Germy' Hinton or T.C.P. Hinton. They all for some reason seem to share a reverence for Martin Stone who Charlie has recorded with and who Hinton has said is the man who made Eric Clapton look boring and provincial.* Martin of course was a pub rocker who played with Joe Strummer before he sold out and formed the Clash. It turns out though that Stewart Home's mother was a beatnik who died young and who he never knew. Perhaps all this is a form of misguided revenge on the bohemians of a different generation but if he wants to play the intellectual punk and render himself undeconsructible or non-recuperable by the same wordy evasions as Sinclair then he has reckoned without the the Major Triad and the forces of the 23rd Brumaire. As for Jordan we support your metaphysical premises but without the fusion with the Pole opposite your project was doomed to failure from the start.The plot thickens..... http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:thrB9Yk4T-UJ:terrascope.co.uk/MyBackPages/MightyBaby.pdf+%22Brian+Hinton%22+%22+martin+Stone%22&hl=en |
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Barriminge
Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 12/27/2004 12:09:34 PM by Barriminge |
In Search of Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/23/2004 10:52:40 AM quote: It's on P.406 of 'The Risen'(2x2 - 0 - 2x3). Whitehead's one of us.Don't forget that the Dog-Star Sirius is associated by R.A. Wilson with the the 23 enigma and by Sinclair in Lud Heat with the Cursed Man.Charlie becomes the 'dog' in 'Landor's Tower' that is sacrificed on Porlock Hill.We're breaking the London Mob. This has all become so perculiar that the Major Triad has had to re-group and re-version what was to be the 23rd Synergy. Who the hell was Dr. Mintern? Why did the name so uncannily recall that of our own hero? For those who have been keeping up with this can of worms my take on the situation so far is thus. Here's Mitty having an epiphanous experience leading up to a contemplation of the number 22. He, right in the spiritual centre of B'ham, produces a psychogeograhical quest which imitates that of a London writer. It was like conjuring up an alchemical gold. So much so that he considers numerology worth investigating. The number '22' is loaded with occult significance. He from that is led to consider if there is any significance in the number'23' since he had breen born on that date and had read somewhere that some weird sect had said that the world was to end on the 23rd December 2012. He sometime later goes into Walsall Library and finds a book called 'The Double Helix of the Mind' which tells of how 23 chromosomes from the male and 23 from the female leads to life, a fusion of opposites. Not only that but the information fell on P.23. Later in the book it says of how the writer William Burroughs(a Beat Daddy pictured with Iain Sinclair in 'Slow Chocolate Autopsy') believed in a '23 enigma'- that it was a number that produced coincidences - something that Chaz himself felt that he had done. He is led to Robert Anton Wilson's account of Burroughs story of how he had once caught a boat from Spain to Tangier and its captain ( a Captain Clark) had told of how he had done the journey for 23 years and it had never sunk. A short time later it sank but not only that but then the author read of an aeroplane that had gone down on the eastern seaboard of the U.S.A..., a flight 23, and that its captain was a Captain Clark. After having bought Wilson's book'Coincidance',which tells the story,and having gone home and read it, the next morning our hero gets up and puts quite by chance a film on the T.V. which stars Gregory Peck as a sea captain ('The World in his Arms) and his name was Captain Clark. What's more the original book (Double Helix) by Stan Gooch tells of the author's interest in synchronicity and that the universe and all of nature seem to be governed by a symmetry of perpetually emerging opposites. Charlie gets to meet Gooch at a Fortean Times Unconvention and the author is puzzled to find that the 'chromosome' information fell on p.23.As Charlie was leaving the the convention he goes into the men's room where he is rudely pushed by a young man pushing his way into use a pissoir and a rucksack is thrust into his face with a badge on it saying 'I am 23'When Charlie enquired why the guy had it...this? - the chap replied,'because it is the number of coincidence'. He wouldn't have guessed!!!! http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id327/pg1/ Mitty could not forget all of this and had to write it down. A book had written itself and he had seemed to be the conduit of some strange force which had a pedagogical intent. The whole thing had led Mitty to a contemplation of the philosophy of science and certain cutting edge but controversial scientists, philosophers and psychologists who believed that there was an acausal principle in nature which balanced the rational/materialist one.It is 'as if' the writing of the story was being helped by the accidental finding of a series of books which answer the questions that he asks. It is of course more convincingly demonstrated if it spreads out to others which I maintain that it has on these threads. There appears to be an intelligence in matter - a finding of which is the quest of true alchemists. Having written his fictionalized account Mitty drops the thing and carries on his personal entropy which he thinks responsible for the phenomenon - the unfinished quest of Rimbaud/Beat heroism. Not to be recommended though.Then by chance the gang is alerted to this website which gives a picture of him which is obviously out of date. It is the first collision in the void which produced the bang.Certain elements however in the first postings coincide with his own fictionalized account of himself.The term 'existentialist' for one ( the cold unknowing universe) and the name William Burroughs. The '23' Synergy itself seems a wink from beyond, an endorsement of the Beat project especially in the light of the casualties it has already produced. His friends (some more unhelpful than others) rally to his support and a battle commenced with the forces of essentialization. Not only that but the coincidences uncannily recurr as if to reinforce his autistic contention that he is a site of coincidence. The Thoth/ University Challenge/Mytton connections of Gravy Hole; Ariel himself via Shakespeare as a site of coincidence; Polish bus drivers etc. All serve to reduce the voices to 'text'. Then all through this is the mysterous voice of Trystero which told of 'an impossibility fiction'which needs the new technology to make its very special innovation. That was precisely what we were doing. He brings up an ACOP deriving from something produced by London provocateur Stewart Home and the Equi-Phallic Alliance who support oddball notions such as 'nonism' and 'placeism' which seem to describe succinctly our own conclusions. They talk of 'walking a ground' or text and they are said to be supported in their ideas by Iain Sinclair, the very author that our own magus had so bizarrely synchromeshed with. Now Spilway has discovered that the man responsible for the Dr. Mintern icon,this Andrew Jordan, has disappeared and now perhaps the good Doctor has emerged from the underchalk. The other night, lo and behold,Chaz realized something else.In his unpublished novel, 'The Postmodern Blues Prohecy' Charlie recounted how he had read that: "....some mysterious sect had predicted that the world would end on December 23rd 2004 but that cannot happen because that is my birthday and nothing ever happens on my birthday"!!! It was not until a couple of nights ago that he remembered this......It's today!!! It had not been 2012 although we do believe that some other group has suggested the same date in 2012.This thread has become a universe in iself (world in the poetic sense) since it does not follow the mathematical laws attributed normally to the cosmos yet describes actual events.It inserts subjectivity (vanity even,King of the Heath,take note) yet remains logical to its own geometry and today it is December 23rd 2004. Charlie had indeed by some weird loop predicted the fitting symmetrical denouement of his own story.This was not manufactured since other texts have emerged over the last few days which have to be taken into account and which reinforce the original thesis.As in the outward universe all seems finely tuned to produce a unique reality of its own.....Especially now since his epiphany concerning his mother juxtaposed with a beatnik past resonates with this punk intellectual of undeconstructed complication, Stewart Home.Dodgy thing about Home is that he has been known to use multiple names It is the Triad that have resurrected and rewritten the axioms of nonism: "This explains my attitude to ‘traditional’ forms/views of poetry, culture, etc.. These constructs, in their resistance to development, entrap all kinds of matter in their apparent stasis. So something that is labelled ‘reactionary’ (or ‘Traditional’) contains, within an allegedly stalled ‘dialectic’, its own opposite. Disregarded psychic matter - that eventually becomes essential - is retrievable from so-called reactionary forms. The best place for an experimentalist to go is to the ‘tradition’ (a series of departures), where they might find that unconsciously retained psychic matter." (http://www.digital-magic.co.uk/equiphallicalliance/what.htm) The pub rocker and the punk rocker....One's the son of the Beat Daddy and the other's the son of a Beat Momma!! Long live the 23rd Brumaire... http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/rhhm/ Both of them are pedlars of 'deranged theories'.If Sinclair's depiction of dualities are his own particular way of conjuring up Jungian archetypes then we might recall another quote from 'Liquid City'(where Sinclair first mentions Bad Boy and Matey) in which he mentions the 'double act' Driffield and Martin Stone: " It was...... the ruddy cheeked bicyclist Drif, with his terrible cargo of facts and deranged theories, the man who knew something about eveything who disappearred. He'd gone walkabout, for weeks at a time( until the heat was off) but he had always previously bounced back......Unconfirmed sightings spoke of a similar looking but much thinner man, ghosting through his old haunts....Martin had abandoned the beret for another range of headgear. Perhaps Drif would pick it up. The cycle would be complete, and the contraries would fuse into some devastating amalgam." |
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Derradah
Rank: Toyah This message was updated on 12/23/2004 1:08:41 PM by Derradah |
In Search of Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/23/2004 1:06:07 PM Thank you, Barrie. You're doing a great job in our newly found project of nonism and anti-placism. It was interesting to read that Dr. Mintern was said to have gone to ground in the underchalk and was said by the unknown Neoist to have come out of the chalk and hailed the Neoist through a megaphone and then disappeared back into the underchalk near Suicide Bridge in Bristol. There is clearly an anti-placeist message in this which reaffims my contention that all scientific discouse is metaphorical. Scientists, as has been stated, wish to build this super collider accelerator to find the Higgs Boson. There is a particularly telling part of Steven Weinberg's 'Dreams of a Final Theory' which states: "Chalk is impervious to water, soft enough for easy digging, and yet strong enough so that it is unnecessary to reinforce the tunnel walls. One could hardly hope for better material through which to dig the Super Collider Tunnel" (Pp. 216-217) This is either another amazing ACOP or we have discovered that Mintern's real intention to make his own search for the Higgs boson and therefore 'dark matter'.I, personally am of the oponion that he has become Charlie Mitton for, as you know,'in the Age of the Floating Signifier things aren't always what people say they are'.In fact Sinclair stole that phrase from 'The Postmodern Blues Prophecy ' and put it in 'Landor's Tower'. Charlie has never seen any money for this. It seems that what we have led up to then is the notion that we can produce our own Super Collider Accelerator by fusing those two hyperprotons of mumbo-jumbo, Charlie Mitton and Stewart Home. We simply employ Heisenberg's idea about symmetry to create a strange situation where the Higgs boson of the collective unconscious emerges. It would be just like magic and we would be first to the final theory so that the symmetry is present in the solutions of the equations as it is in the symmetry of the way these forces enter into the equations. In the present paradigm, of course it is not present in the solutions of the equations.The result of course would be the deconstruction of Western metaphysics and the merging of the avant-garde with the arriere-garde, punk rock and pub rock and the mod and the skinhead. Dick Hebdige who did cultural studies research in Brum and is now in California would have to be interested in this merging of cutting-edge science and poular culture. |
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Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/23/2004 1:29:09 PM STATEMENT OF DR. CHARLES MINTERN ON THE ENDEAVOURS OF THE MAJOR TRIAD 23.12.04 The nonists realised years ago that Mitton was just the one in a trillion that was needed to be the conduit since he had the knowledge, ability and intellectual power to deduce what the evidence of all this meant. That ‘nonism’ and ‘placeism’ represent concepts so very little understood but which are fundamental to our understanding of the hole in which contemporary science/art/philosophy has fallen into. It really is as though everything has been discovered or about to be so (at least on a theoretical level) although it is in the interests of scientists and artists to tell us otherwise while rehashing the same concepts. The Triad was led to G. Spenser Brown’s system of logic and the paradoxes which it implies in symbolic logic for good reason. Contemporary scientists are both ‘placeist’ and for that matter ‘timeist’ as well. They ignore self-referentiality and don’t recognise their own need for context. This is the Minternian extension of post-structuralist and post- modern philosophy and it makes sense. Heed to the Mittonian/Minternian. There was a programme on the telly the other night which was there to be Minternized. It was called ‘What we still don’t know’ and showed a succession of brain-boxes discussing the trillion trillion trillion to one odds against the fine tuning needed for our universe to come about by simply chance. It would have required a coincidence of massive proportions. They suggested that we could escape the conundrum by the idea of a ‘multiverse’ which would make the chances of our own universe producing life therefore theoretically likely. It was all delineated to the background of spooky music linked by some sub- Vincent Price/Christopher Lee link-man. Their project betrayed itself to be situated very much in what could be seen in terms of fictional narration unable to countenance its own mythologies. They still proceed necessarily from a context which dishonours the void, the unknowable, the niente, the no-thing-in effect, the context of the self. We shall never know for sure by empirical means if other external universes exist. Towards the end of the programme they even discuss whether we are really a computer simulation concocted by some super-intelligent being or beings i.e. something outside of ourselves. They still employ the techniques of symbolic logic which requires a strong subject/object relationship and is essentially Cartesian. If we reflect our own universe then each individual, although we find it difficult to believe, is a universe in himself. Although, like the outward universe, we are finite and we can reflect it by a system of mathematics ,we also have the powers of acausality and free association which suggests something deeper. If we can do all these things then we must be a universe within ourselves both collectively and individually. Werner Heisenberg’s contention that it is abstract symmetries which govern nature must lead us to conclude that what drives the outward universe must in principle at least also govern the inward one. If by constructing on inwardly conceived universe out of synchronicities which are finely tuned but which make sense metalogically then we have imitated the vast conglomeration of coincidences which must have produced the outer one. We have to admit that there is something unknowable i.e. an epistemelogical reconstruction through mathematics on which this process is based. It is the revenge of the ontological dominant which McHale has suggested informs much postmodern literature. The Triad is to be commended for a symmetry between a block of literature and other things and the Mittonian subjective experience of them. We have demonstrated a finely tuned link between the objective and subjective which ultimately requires a reassessment of both idealism and materialism in philosophy. The Kantian ‘a priori’ and the Platonic world/universe of forms which can only be intuited seems to be a precursor of this. It also resurrects romantic individualism and existentialism but brings to them happier possibilities. The fact is that the odds against the story that has been told being by chance are not calculable. The Triad most rightly suggests that it did not happen in a way that is conventionally fathomable. The programme the other night still spoke in terms of ‘creators’ and ‘created’ and does not conceive of reality being a finally-tuned interweaving of mind and matter. To my own knowledge it is the scientists such as Bohm, Prigogine and Sheldrake who are the ones that provide an accommodation of this possibility. Minge is right, we must bring a big crunch to this created universe on 23rd since a symmetry quite by intelligent accidence has been created. The scientists who see the universe as that which was created by the Big Bang are being ‘placeist’ and ‘timeist’ while the ones that acknowledge the multiverse, but then proceed on to think in terms of computer simulated ontologies, are simply missing the wonder of how the interweaving of the abstract symmetries reveals itself. At the same time Steven Weinberg has discussed how a super collider accelerator is needed to demonstrate the existence of a ‘Higgs boson’ which will regulate all equations and possibly even reveal the truth of ‘dark matter’. A structure of ginormous proportions is needed to generate trillions of volts by colliding protons on the off chance that we might find evidence of this elusive particle. We commend the fact that they are convinced that it exists but a lot of cash is needed to do it. We reject however this honouring of this continuation of ‘placeism’ and ‘timeism’ through objectivity over own supercollision through subjectivity. This supercollision over the last week has led to the re-emergence of myself, Dr. Minton who was necessary at this point to re-define ‘nonism’ and ‘placeism’ as it exists in the Mittonian universe. I give my absolute support to the nonist and ‘anti placeist’ endeavours of the Triad. |
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Dr. Charles Mintern
replied on: 12/23/2004 1:37:27 PM It is, isn't it!! It's Dr. Mintern. He's returned from the underchalk. Charlie Mitton is dead! Long live Charlie Mitton. Long live Dr.Mintern. The prophecy has come true and our fiction is over. Here endeth the Second Book of Minton. Merry christmas, everybody!! Final message to Matey (from Gilles Deleuze and Trystero): "Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency." -p. 11 "We're tired of trees." -p. 15 "To these centered systems [arborescent structures], the authors contrast acentered systems, finite networks of automata in which communication runs from any neighbor to another, the stems or channels do not preexist, and all individuals are interchangeable, defined only by their state at a given moment--such that the local operations are coordinated and the final, global result synchronized without a central agency." -p. 17 'A Thousand Plateaus' And N.B.Cut and paste this google search and it reveals 23 references: http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=Deleuze&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=Rhizome&as_oq=versioning&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images FINITO |
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