Transpondency

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." ~ Noam Chomsky

• Edward Hunter on Brainwashing
• Pilachu: "MW Radio Tuning"
• Minlus: "Brainwash"
• Robert Anton Wilson on Operation Mindfuck
• Noam Chomsky on Propaganda and the Public Mind
• klmsound: "23brainwash"
• Jerry Coyle and the Nelsonics: "America...Land of Free Enterprise - The Fairbanks, Morse Song"
• Egoistorms mashup: Pretty Lights "Who Loves Me?" vs. Marshall McLuhan on Advertising
• Post Cool Cognitive Upgrade [echollage]
• ☥Amun Ra☥ "Mind Control ft. Roy G."
• Michael Zoleski: "Propaganda"
• Kill The Flowers Mr Cagney: "So they say...with a Billionaries smirk....you are free"
• Immortal Technique: "Rich Man's World"
• Phil Celia and the Silver Tones: "Keep on Smiling! Pay Your Taxes!"
• Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def): Niggas In Poorest
• T.D. Skatchit & Company, Tom Nunn, David Michalak: "Skatch Surveillance"
• Lovvarion: "ThinkForYourselfQuestionAuthority (Timothy Leary)"

"The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times." Marshall McLuhan

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• Adam describes the Beat Generation to John
• What if Jack Kerouac walked into a modern underground Jazz scene?
• Youpidou: "Crisis generation game feat J. Kerouac"
• Hakim Bey: "Poetic Terrorism"
• Parrhesia Sound System: "Stealing Electricity (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)"
• Mega Toothpaste Mammals: "Kerouac"
• Hakim Bey: "The Power of Art"
• Parrhesia Sound System: "Sweets For Junky Seventeen (William S Burroughs)"
• Is a new Beat Generation possible?
• "All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together." ~ Jack Kerouac

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way--a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word 'beat' spoken on streetcorners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night of postwar America--beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction--We'd even heard old 1910 Daddy Hipsters of the streets speak the word that way, with a melancholy sneer--It never meant juvenile delinquents, it meant characters of a special spirituality who didn't gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization--the subterraneans heroes who'd finally turned from the 'freedom' machine of the West and were taking drugs, digging bop, having flashes of insight, experiencing the 'derangement of the senses,' talking strange, being poor and glad, prophesying a new style for American culture, a new style (we thought), a new incantation--The same thing was almost going on in the postwar France of Sartre and Genet and what's more we knew about it--But as to the actual existence of a Beat Generation, chances are it was really just an idea in our minds--We'd stay up 24 hours drinking cup after cup of black coffee, playing record after record of Wardell Gray, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Willie Jackson, Lennie Tristano and all the rest, talking madly about that holy new feeling out there in the streets- -We'd write stories about some strange beatific Negro hepcat saint with goatee hitchhiking across Iowa with taped up horn bringing the secret message of blowing to other coasts, other cities, like a veritable Walter the Penniless leading an invisible First Crusade- -We had our mystic heroes and wrote, nay sung novels about them, erected long poems celebrating the new 'angels' of the American underground--In actuality there was only a handful of real hip swinging cats and what there was vanished mightily swiftly during the Korean War when (and after) a sinister new kind of efficiency appeared in America, maybe it was the result of the universalization of Television and nothing else (the Polite Total Police Control of Dragnet's 'peace' officers) but the beat characters after 1950 vanished into jails and madhouses, or were shamed into silent conformity, the generation itself was shortlived and small in number.” ― Jack Kerouac

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“Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.” ― Hakim Bey, TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone

• A conversation with Ron & John about propaganda in society
• Blue Chandelier: "Join The Club" & "Off The Grid"
• Hakim Bey: "T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone"
• Si Matta: "Dreams Within Dreams"
• King Khan And The Shrines: "Bite My Tongue"

“Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.” ~ Peter Lamborn Wilson

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Is nostalgic sentimentality the condition of a self which in its distance has grown indifferent to things & is therefore only capable of the most superficial kind of emotion, only capable of being moved in the instant, only capable of cheap, theatrical sentimentality? ~ from Technology as symptom and dream by Robert Donald Romanyshyn

• New Year 2012, Nostalgic for Past Fantasies of the 19A0s
• Blouse: "Time Travel" & "Videotapes"
• Grimes: "Oblivion", "Vanessa", "Fragments of the Future"
• SLEEP ∞ OVER: "World is Night" & "Romantic Streams"
• Puro Instinct: "Stilyagi (Feat. Ariel Pink)" & "Silky Eyes"
• Public Transport: "Strangely Free"
• McLuhan on Nostalgia, Rearview Mirror
• Fran Lebowitz on Artists and Nostalgia
• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: "Round and Round"

“Every age creates as an Utopian image a nostalgic rear-view mirror image of itself, which puts it thoroughly out of touch with the present. The present is the enemy. The present is the—and this will delight you Norman—the present is only faced in any generation by the artist. The artist is prepared to study the present as his material because it is the area of challenge to the whole sensory life, and therefore it is anti-Utopian, it is a world of anti-values. And the artist who comes into contact with the present produces an avant-garde image that is terrifying to his contemporaries.” ~ Marshall McLuhan

from Mixtape of the Lost Decade by Rob Beschizza, University of Rockall

The Phantom Time Hypothesis, developed by Heribert Illig, proposes that error and falsification have radically distorted the historical record. In his analysis, we have dilated the course of true events, so that they appear to cover far greater lengths of time than in fact passed. The so-called dark ages, for example, only appear that way because those centuries were mere decades.

Respectable historians give this idea no credence. Rightly so, because the truth is even stranger. It is not the case that we have invented historical periods that do not exist. In truth, there are ages which we have so completely forgotten that modern textbooks exclude them entirely. In our research, we have identified at least three such periods.

Firstly, there appear to be several decades unaccounted for during the fifth century A.D., which may reveal the true circumstances of the Western Empire's final decline. Secondly, it is clear to us that the Mongols invaded northern Europe and conquered the Holy Roman Empire in the 13th century. The astounding deathtoll, and that of the crusades that subsequently dislodged the invaders, is now attributed to the plague.

Finally, evidence is mounting that points to a "lost decade" between what we now remember as the 1970s and 1980s, a time whose full cultural trauma and resulting suppression from memory was so complete as to effect itself even on the living.

Some of those who have recovered seek to reveal the secret history through unusual media such as fashionable tumblogs and private filesharing forums. By sharing elements of an intricate and rigorous symbology drawn from this interstitial history, this cabal works quietly to prepare us to learn the truth and its astonishing consequences...

1. The terminus ad quem of the interstitial history is identified by the earliest-dated reference to it the esoterica: footage broadcast in the early hours of the morning on an obscure television station to commemorate (in the 'new' timeline) the date that the "lost decade" was brought to an end.

2. Finally revealed, terms such as "19A0s" can now be searched for and uncovered in countless seemingly innocuous documents archived online, exposing them as critical ciphertexts of the movement.

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A Xmas Special Mashup Ecollage

• Special Ed: "The Story of the Naivete"
• People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz Xmas Special
• Eddie Lawrence: The Merry Old Philosopher
• Jonathan Mitchell presents Kurt Andersen’s Human Intelligence

"The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light." ~ Joseph Campbell

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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

• Marcelo Ohara: "Travessia"
• David Lynch: "Pinky's Dream (ft. Karen O)
• Alfred Hitchcock Interview
• Shigeto: "Self-Compassion"
• Dr. Dog: "That Old Black Hole"
• Da Zool: "Letronew"
• An Evening with Quentin Crisp
• Of Montreal: "Wintered Debts"
• Abraham Hicks on Hilter
• Blind Physics: "Harp listenmix" & "practice+drumloop"
• Philip K Dick on his inspiration for Valis
• Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller: "C.G. Jung's Prophecy of the New Aeon"
• The Skull Defekts: "Fragrant Nimbus"

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." ~ Carl Jung

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Remystifying McLuhan

• CBC's Demystifying McLuhan Mashup Contest
• McLuhan and Parker At The Vanishing Point
• Damien Jurado: "Nothing Is The News"
• DATAcloud: "The Future Leaks Out"
• Pictureplane: "Real Is A Feeling"
• micehal: "Marshall McRemix"
• Pictureplane: "Post-Physical"
• Jordan Mandel: "Buzz-Saw"
• Matt.ch4: "Nude descending a staircase Op.2"
• [Video] McLuhan - commercial vs public media

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“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” -- Edgar Allan Poe

• Nevermore Eleanor: "Invitation"
• Decomentarium: "Dementia"
• treeface0905: "Caffeine"
• Boris Karloff: "Mirror of Death"
• Navid: "Physical Modelling"
• Sonic Youth: "Halloween"
• Mr Shadowchaser: "dunwich mash"
• Viraeson: "The Birds... Scream the... Birds Scream"
• The Fugs: "Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon"
• The Secret Music of China: "Ghosts of the Great Wall"
• Percy Bysshe Shelly vs. Vincent Price: "Ode To The West Wind"
• Epoxia: "Soberbia Espiritual (Remix)"
• Glass Prism: "The Raven"
• James Mason: "The Tell-Tale Heart"
• DJ Pad: "Magical Nights"
• Lou Reed: "Edgar Allan Poe"
• mARKYbOY: "The Killing Mash"

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The point is to make something new, something that doesn’t even remotely remind you of culture.

• Allan Kaprow: "How To Make A Happening"
• Zapnspark: "Quiet City"
• Maren Parusel: "Don't Take Your Eyes Away"
• Einzelganger: "West End Collected"
• Mattt: "Thunderstorm, Rain, Wind"
• Broken Poets: "Singularity"
• Mark Ty-Wharton: "Spoken Speakers Corner Hyde Park"
• iscape: "Wake Up!"

Forget all the standard art forms—don’t paint pictures, don’t make poetry, don’t build architecture, don’t arrange dances, don’t write plays, don’t compose music, don’t make movies, and above all don’t think you’ll get a happening by putting all these together.

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“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” -- Alan Watts

• DanQ: "sur le toit de la cité industriel de la Jarry" & "à la Villette Sonique"
• St. LaRok: "Time/Leap"
• PHYZX: "Paradoxical Conspiracies"
• Bertrand Russell: "The Velocity of Light" [from ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein]
• Epstein Y El Conjunto (feat Matt Crum): "Timeless Form, Formless Time"
• Michael Kimaid: "Toward a Resistance of Commodified Time and Space"
• Alan Watts: "Time in the Future"
• The Beets: "Time Brought Age"

Marshall McLuhan discusses Harold Innis's idea of time and space...

"Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant." -- Harold Innis

"To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it." -- Alan Watts

“Time is a measure of energy, a measure of motion. And we have agreed internationally on the speed of the clock. And I want you to think about clocks and watches for a moment. We are of course slaves to them. And you will notice that your watch is a circle, and that it is calibrated, and that each minute, or second, is marked by a hairline which is made as narrow as possible, as yet to be consistent with being visible. And when we think of a moment of time, when we think what we mean by the word “now”; we think of the shortest possible instant that is here and gone, because that corresponds with the hairline on the watch. And as a result of this fabulous idea, we are a people who feel that we don’t have any present, because the present is instantly vanishing - it goes so quickly. It is always becoming past. And we have the sensation, therefore, of our lives as something that is constantly flowing away from us. We are constantly losing time. And so we have a sense of urgency. Time is not to be wasted. Time is money. And so, because of the tyranny of this thing, we feel that we have a past, and we know who we are in terms of our past. Nobody can ever tell you who they are, they can only tell you who they were. And we think we also have a future. And that is terribly important, because we have a naive hope that the future is somehow going to supply what we are looking for. You see, if you live in a present that is so short that it is not really here at all, you will always feel vaguely frustrated.”

— Alan Watts, British philosopher, writer, and speaker (1915-1973)

"At instant speeds, everybody begins to live inside a 360-degree module in which every event echoes every other event back and forth at electric speeds, and all events bounce off each other creating patterns. There is one optimistic feature. The mind moves very much faster than light. Light travels to Mars in minutes. The mind can go and come back from Mars in an instant many times. The mind can actually recognize all these electric patterns as easily as it can alphabetic letters. It's very much faster than the computer."

-- Marshall McLuhan in McLuhan Dissects the Executive, Business Week Magazine, p.118, June 24, 1972.

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