Reading this is like trying to open a box within a box within a box and so forth....he
had too many words inside to write - prob'ly should have invented his own language -
his words are the facets of a diamond exposed to every longitude/latitude beam and I
wish I could catch them all. Thanks Heiko.
Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
> Did cut this piece into 3 parts, cant give it away via http in the moment,
> its splitted -l 510 or something like that, hope, it doesnt crash your
> mailboxes, voila, part 1:
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> THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION
> BY
> WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
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> 1970 Expanded Media Editions
> Published by Bresche Publikationen
> Germany
> (To my knowlege, no longer in print)
> Text transcription By Flesh
> 01/16/92
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> FEEDBACK FROM WATERGATE TO THE GARDEN OF EDEN
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> In the beginning was the word and the word was god and has remained one
> of the mysteries ever since. The word was God and the word was flesh we are
> told. In the beginning of what exactly was this beginning word? In the
> beginning of WRITTEN history. It is generally assumed that spoken word came
> before the written word. I suggest that the spoken word as we know it came
> after the written word. In the beginning was the word and the word was God
> and the word was flesh ... human flesh ... In the beginning of WRITING.
> Animals talk and convey information but they do not write. They cannot make
> information available to future generations or to animals outside the range
> of their communication system. This is the crucial distinction between men
> and other animals. WRITING. Korzybski, who developed the concept of General
> Semantics, the meaning of meaning, has pointed out this human distinction
> and described man as 'the time binding animal'. He can make information to
> other men over a length of time through writing. Animals talk. They dont
> write. Now a wise old rat may know a lot about traps and poison but he cannot
> write a text book on DEATH TRAPS IN YOUR WAREHOUSE for the Reader's Digest
> with tactics for ganging up on digs and ferrets and taking care of wise guys
> who stuff steel wool up our holes. It is doubtful if the spoke word would
> have ever evolved beyond the animal stage without the written word. The
> written word ist inferential in HUMAN speech. It would not occur to our wise
> old rat to assemble the young rats and pass his knowledge along in an aural
> tradition BECAUSE THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF TIME BINDING COULD NOT OCCUR WITHOUT
> THE WRITTEN WORD. The written word is of course a symbol for something and
> in the case of hieroglyphic language writing like Egyptian it may be a symbol
> for itself that is a picture of what it represents. This is not true of an
> alphabet language like English. The word leg has no pictorial resemblance to
> a leg. It refers to the SPOKEN word leg. so we may forget that a written word
> IS AN IMAGE and that written words are images in sequence that is to say
> MOVING PICTURES. So any hieroglyphic sequence gives us an immediate working
> definition for spoken words. Spoken words are verbal units that refer to this
> pictorial sequence. And what then is the written word? My basis theory is
> that the written word was literally a virus that made spoken word possible.
> The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state
> of stable symbiosis with the host...(This symbiotic relationship is now
> breaking down for reasons I will suggest later.)
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> I quote from MECHANISMS OF VIRUS INFECTION edited by Mr. Wilson Smith, a
> scientist who really thinks about his subject instead of merely correlating
> data. He thinks, that is, about the ultimate intentions of the virus
> organism. In an article entitled VIRUS ADAPTIBILITY AND HOST RESISTANCE by
> G. Belyavin, speculations as to the biologic goal of the virus species
> are enlarged ... 'Viruses are obligatory cellular parasites and are thus
> wholly dependant upon the integrity of the cellular systems they parasitize
> for their survival in an active state. It is something of a paradox that
> many viruses ultimately destroy the cells in which they are living..."
>
> And I may add the environment necessary for any cellular structure they
> could parasitize to survive. Is the virus then simply a time bomb left on
> this planet to be activated by remote control? An extermination program in
> fact? In its path from full virulence to its ultimate goal of symbiosis will
> any human creature survive? Is the white race, which would seem to be more
> under virus control than the black yellow and brown races, giving any
> indication of workable symbiosis?
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> 'Taking the virus eye view, the ideal situation would appear to be one in
> which the virus replicates in cells without in any way disturbing their
> normal metabolism.'
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> This has been suggested as the ideal biological situation toward which all
> viruses are slowly evolving...'
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> Would you offer violence to a well intentioned virus on its slow
> road to symbiosis?
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> 'It is worth noting that if a virus were to attain a state of wholly benign
> equilibrium with its host cell it is unlikely that its presence would be
> readily detected OR THAT IT WOULD NECESSARILY BE RECOGNIZED AS A VIRUS. I
> suggest that the word is just such a virus. Doktor Kurt Unruh von Steinplatz
> has put forth an interesting theory as to the origins and history of this
> word virus. He postulates that the word was a virus of what he calls BIOLOGIC
> MUTATION effecting the biologic change in its host which was then genetically
> conveyed. One reason that apes cant talk is because the structure of their
> inner throats is simply not designed to formulate words. He postulates that
> alteration in inner throat structure were occasioned by virus illness ...
> And not occasion ... This illness may well have had a high rate of mortality
> but some female apes must have survived to give birth to the wunder kindern.
> The illness perhaps assumed a more malignant form in the male because of his
> more developed and rigid muscular structure causing death through
> strangulation and vertebral fracture. Since the virus in both male and
> female precipitates sexual frenzy through irritation of sex centers in the
> brain the males impregnated the females in their death spasms and the
> altered throat structured was genetically conveyed. Having effected
> alterations in the host's structure that resulted in a new species specially
> designed to accomodate the virus the virus can now replicate without
> disturbing the metabolism and without being recognized a virus. A symbiotic
> relationship has now been established and the virus is now built into the
> host which sees the virus as a useful part of itself. This successful virus
> can now sneer at gangster viruses like small pox and turn them in to The
> Pasteur Institute. Ach jungen what a scene is here ... the apes are moulting
> fur steaming off them females whimpering and slobbering over dying males like
> cows with aftosa and so a stink musky sweet rotten metal stink of the
> forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden...
>
> The creation of Adam, the Garden of Eden, Adam's fainting spell during
> which God made Eva from his body, the forbidden fruit which was of course
> knowledge of the whole stinking thing and might be termed the first Watergate
> scandal, all slots neatly into Doc Steinplatz's theory. And this was a white
> myth. This leads to the supposition that the word virus assumed a specially
> malignant and lethal form in the white race. What then accounts for this
> special malignance of the white word virus? Most likely a virus mutation
> occasioned by radioactivity .All animal and insect experiments so far carried
> out indicate that mutations resulting from radiation are unfavorable that is
> not conductive to survival. These experiments relate to the effects of
> radiation on autonomous creatures. What about the effects of radiation on
> viruses? Are there not perhaps some so classified and secret experiments
> hiding behind national security? Virus mutations occasioned by radiation may
> be quite favorable for the virus. And such a virus might well violate the
> equilibrium with the host cell. So now with the tape recorders of Watergate
> and the fall out from atomic testing the virus stirs uneasy in all your white
> throats. It was a killer virus once. It could become a killer virus again and
> rage through cities of the world like a topping forest fire.
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> "It is the beginning of the end." That was the reaction of a science
> attache' at one of Washington's major embassies to reports that a synthetic
> gene particle had been produced in the laboratory ..."Any small country can
> now make a virus for which there is no cure. It would only take a small
> laboratory. Any small country with good biochemists could do it."
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> And presumeably any big country could do it quicker and better.
>
> 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. Let
> us start with three tape recorders in The Garden of Eden. Tape recorder 1 is
> Adam. Tape recorder 2 is Eve. Tape recorder 3 is God, who deteriorated after
> Hiroshima into the Ugly American. Or to return to our primevil scene: Tape
> recorder 1 is the male ape in a helpless sexual frenzy as the virus strangles
> him. Tape recorder 2 is a cooing female ape who straddles him. Tape recorder
> 3 is DEATH.
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> Steinplatz postulates that the virus of biologic mutation, which he calls
> Virus B-23, is contained in the word. Unloosing this virus from the word
> could be more deadly that loosing the power of the atom. Because all hate
> all pain all fear all lust is contained in the word. Perhaps we have here in
> these three tape recorders the virus of biologic mutation which once gave
> us the word and has hidden behind the word ever since. And perhaps three
> tape recorders and some good biochemists can unloose this force. Now look at these
> three tape recorders and think in terms of the virus particle. Recorder 1 is
> the perspective host for an influenza virus. Tape recorder number 2 is the
> means by which the virus gains access to the host, in the case of a flu virus
> by disolving a hole in cells of the host's respiratory tract. Number 2, having
> gained access to the cell. leads in number 3. Number 3 is the effect
> produced in the host by the virus: coughing, fever, inflamation. NUMBER 3 IS
> OBJECTIVE REALITY PRODUCED BY THE VIRUS IN THE HOST Viruses make themselves
> real. It's a way viruses have. We now have three tape recorders. So we will
> make a simple word virus. Let us suppose that our target is a rival
> politician. On tape recorder 1 we will record speeches and conversation
> carefully editing in stammers mispronouncing, inept phrases ... the worst
> number 1 can assemble. now on tape recorder 2 we will make so a love tape
> by bugging his bed room. We can potentiate this tape by splicing it in with
> a sexual object that is inadmissible or inaccessible or both, say the
> senator's teen age daughter. On tape recorder 3 we will record hateful
> disapproving voices and splice the three recordings together at very short
> intervals and play them back to the senator and his constituents. This
> cutting and playback can be very complex involving speech scramblers and
> batteries of tape recorders but THE BASIC PRINCIPAL IS SIMPLY SPLICING SEX
> TAPE AND DISAPPROVAL TAPES IN TOGETHER. Once the associations lines are
> established they are activated every time the senator's speech centres are
> activated which is all the time heavan help that sorry bestard if anything
> happened to his big mouth. So his teen age daughter crawls all over him while
> Texas rangers and decent church going women rise from tape recorder 3
> screaming "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN FRONT OF DECENT PEOPLE."
>
> The teen age daughter is just a refinement. Basically all you need is sex
> recordings on number 2 and hostile recordings on number 3. With this simple
> formula any CIA sonofabitch can become God that is tape tape recorder 3.
> Notice the emphasis on sexual material in burglaries and bugging in the
> Watergate cess pool ...Bugging Martin Luther King's bed room ...Kiss Kiss
> bang bang ...A deadly assassination technique. At the very least sure to
> unerve and put opponents at a disadvantage. So the real scandal of Watergate
> that has not come out yet is not that bed rooms were bugged and the
> offices of psychiatrists ransaked but THE PRECISE USE THAT WAS AND IS
> MADE OF THIS SEXUAL MATERIAL. This formula works best on a closed circit.
> If sexual recordings and film are widespread, tolerated and publicaly
> shown tape recorder 3 losses ist power. Which perhaps explains why the Nixon
> administration is out to close down set films and reestablish censorship on
> all films and books. to keep close circit on tape recorder 3.
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> And this brings us to the subject of SEX. In the words of the late John
> O'Hara I'm glad you came to me instead of one of those quacks on the top
> floor ...Psychiatrists, priests whatever they call themselves they want
> to turn in off and keep tape recorder 3 in business. Let's turn it on. All
> you swingers use video cameras and tape recorders to record and photograph
> your sessions. Now go over the session and pick out the sexiest pieces you
> know when it really HAPPENS. Reich built a machine with electrodes
> attached to the penis to measure this orgasm charge. Here is
> unpleasurable orgasm sagging ominously as tape recorder 3 cuts in. He just
> made it. And here is a pleasurable orgasm way up on the graph. So take the
> best of your sessions and invite the nabors to see it. Its the naborly thing
> to do. Try cutting them in together alternating 24 frames per second. Try
> slow downs and speed ups.
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> Build and experiment with orgone accumulators. Its simply a box of any
> shape or size lined with iron. Your intrepid reporter at age 37 achieved
> spontaneous orgasm no hands in an orgone accumulator built in an orange grove
> in Pharr/Texas. It was the small direct application accumulator that did the
> trick. That's what every red blooded boy and girl should be doing in their
> basement work shop. The orgone accumulator could be greatly potentiated by
> using MAGNETIZED IRON which sends a powerful magnetic field through the body.
> And small accumulators like ray guns.
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> There is Two Gun Maggee going off in his pants. The gun falls from his hand.
> Quick as he was he was not quick enough.
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> For a small directional accumulator obtain six powerful magnets. Arrange
> your magnetized squares so they form a box. In one end of the box drill a
> hole and insert an iron tube. Now cover the box and tube with any organic
> material ...rubber,leather,cloth. Now train the tube on your privates and the
> privates of your friends and nabors. Its good for young and old man and beast
> and is known as SEX. It is also known to have a direct connection with what
> is known as LIFE. Let's get St. Paul off our backs and take off the bible
> belt. And tell tape recorder 3 to cover his own dirty thing. It stinks from
> the garden of Eden to Watergate.
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> 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?
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> ANSWER: THEY PLAY THEM BACK ON LOCATION.
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> 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.
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> PLAYBACK is the essential ingredient.
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> 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...
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> 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.
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> "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."
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> 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
> couldnt say what both of us knew without being ridiculous...
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> "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."
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> 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 dont.
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> 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.
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> 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 DISCRACEFUL 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 sopken 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.
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> 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 burgulary. 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.
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> 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
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> thousands of people with recorders, portable and stationary, messages passed
> along like signal drums, a parody of the President's speech up and down the
> balconies, in and out open windows, through walls, over courtyards, taken
> up by barking dogs, muttering bums, music, traffic down windy streets, across
> parks and soccer fields. Illusion is a revolutionary weapon:
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> Put ten operators with carefully prepared recordings out at rush hour and
> see how quick the words get around. People don't know where they heard it but
> they heard it.
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> Take a recorded Wallace speech, cut in stammering coughs sneezes hiccoughs
> snarls pain screams fear whimperings apoplectic sputterings slobbering
> drooling idiot noises sex and animal sound effects and play it back in the
> streets subway stations parks political rallies.
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> AS A FRONT LINE WEAPON TO PRODUCE AND ESCALATE RIOTS
> There is nothing mystical about this operation. Riot sound effects can
> produce an actual riot in a riot situation. RECORDED POLICE WISTLES WILL DRAW
> COPS. RECORDED GUNSHOTS, AND THEIR GUNS ARE OUT.
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> "MY GOD, THEY'E KILLING US."
> A guardsman said later: "I heard and saw my buddy go down, his face covered
> in blood (turned out he'd been hit by a stone from a sling shot) and I
> thought, well this is it." BLOODY WEDNESDAY. A DAZED AMERICA COUNTED 23 DEAD
> AND 32 WOUNDED, 6 CRITICALLY.
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> Here is a run of the mill, pre-riot situation. Protestors have been urged
> to demonstrate peacefully, police and guardsmen to exercise restraint. Ten
> tape recorders strapped under their coats, playback, and record controlled
> from lapel buttons. They have pre-recorded riot sound effects from Chicago,
> Paris, Mexico City, Kent/Ohio. If they adjust sound levels of recordings to
> surrounding sound levels, they will not be detected. Police scuffle with the
> demonstrators. The operators converge. turn on Chicago record, play back,
> move on to the next scuffles, record playback, keep moving. Things are
> hotting up, a cop is down groaning. shrill chorus of recorded pig squeals and
> parody groans.
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> Could you cool a riot by recording the calmest cop and the most reasonable
> demonstrator? Maybe! However, it's a lot easier to start trouble that to stop
> it. Just pointing out that cut/ups on the tape recorder can be used as a
> weapon. You'll observe that the operators are making a cutup as they go. They
> are cutting in Chicago, Paris, Mexico City, Kent Ohio with the present sound
> effects at random and that is a cutup.
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> AS A LONG RANGE WEAPON TO SCRAMBLE AND NULLIFY ASSOCIATIONAL LINES PUT DOWN
> BY MASS MEDIA
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> The control of the mass media depends on laying down lines of association.
> When the lines are cut the associational connections are broken.
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> President Johnson burst into a swank apartment, held three girls at
> gunpoint, 26 miles north of Saigon yesterday.
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> you can cut the mutter line of the mass media and put the altered mutter
> line out in the streets with a tape recorder. Consider the mutter line of the
> daily press. It goes up with the morning papers, millions of people read the
> same words. In different ways, of course. A motion praising Mr. Callaghan's
> action in banning the South African Cricket Tour has spoiled the colonel's
> breakfast. All reacting one way or another to the paper world or unseen
> events which becomes an integral part of your reality. You will notice that
> this process is continually subject to random juxtapostation. Just what sign
> did you see in the Green Park station as you glanced up from the PEOPLE?
> Just who called as you were reading your letter in the TIMES? What were you
> reading when your wife broke a dish in the kitchen? An unreal paper world
> and yet completely real because it is actually happening. Mutter line of
> the EVENING NEWS, TV. Fix yourself on millions of people all watching Jesse
> James or the Virginian at the same time. International mutter line of the
> weekly news magazine always dated a week ahead. Have you noticed it's the
> kiss of death to be on the front cover of TIME. Madam Nhu was there when her
> husband was killed and her government fell. Verwoerd was on the front cover
> of TIME when a demon tapeworm gave the order for his death through a
> messenger of the same. Read the Bible, kept to himself, no bad habits,
> you know the type. Old reliable, read all about it.
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> So stir in news stories, TV plays, stock market quotations, adverts and put
> the altered mutter line out in the streets.
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> The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing
> power and more sophisticated technique used by establishment mass media to
> falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a PRIORI
> ridiculous or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books,
> discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest.
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> I suggest that the underground press could perform this function much more
> effectively by the use of cut/up techniques. For example, prepare cut/ups of
> the ugliest reactionary statements you can find and surround them with the
> ugliest pictures. Now give it the drool, slobber, animal noise treatment and
> put it out on the mutter line with recorders. Run a scramble page in every
> issue of a transcribed tape recorded cut/up of news, radio and TV. Put the
> recordings out on the mutter line before the paper hits the stand. It gives
> you a funny feeling to see a headline that's been going round and round
> inside your head. The underground press could add a mutter line to their
> adverts and provide a unique advertising service. Cut the product in with
> pop tunes, cut the product in with advertising slogans and jingles of other
> products and syphon off the sales. Anybody that doubts that these techniques
> work has only to put them to the test. The techniques here described are in
> use by the CIA and agents of other countries ...Ten years ago they were
> making systematic street recordings in every district of Paris. I recall the
> Voice of America man in Tangir and a room full of tape recorders and you
> could hear some strange sounds through the wall. Kept to himself, hello in
> the hall. Nobody was ever allowed in that room, not even a fatima. Of course,
> there are many technical elaborations like long-range directional mikes.
> When cutting the prayer call in with hog grunts it doesn't pay to be walking
> around the market place with a portable tape recorder.
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> An article in NEW SCIENTIST June 4, 1970, page 470, entitled ' Electronic
> Arts of Noncommunication ' by Richard C French gives the clue for more
> precise technical instructions.
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> In 1968, with the help of Ian Sommerville and Anthony Balch, I took a
> short passage of my recorded voice and cut it into intervals of one
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