When the Signal Goes Off the Air: Paranoiac Fantasies in Mediated Realities

How does perceived illegality of communication affect constitutive fantasies about conspiratorial interruption of media flows? This can occur, for example, when we assume that a government is monitoring our communication: an assumption which is likely when widespread media reports inform us of authorized wiretapping by a National Security Agency of some sort. This information is unforgettable, regardless of the logical practices that would suggest these governmental observations are only made with regard to actual criminals, or those suspected of planning a crime. The omniscient ear still listens. Even when we can be relatively sure that no one is listening, we still limit our communications such that the third party, uninvited, may not be offended. Of course the obvious counterexample to this assertion would come from the free-thinking/speaking individual whose carefree transmissions bounce across media with the joviality of a Bugaloo. There is still a space in this person’s world where such activity is not permitted. Or their signal has never experienced interruption; but they should just wait. One day they will be force-fed LSD and be made to experience the trauma of non-communicative isolation. When the effects of that substance begin our innocent friend will call an acquaintance to relate the intense and strange feelings and thoughts that begin to take hold of her consciousness. And just when the qualities of this experience have been finally, adequately expressed, the line will go silent. Then she will know the horror of the lack-of-flow, the dead-end and birth of her blank subjectivity.

Natural Conclusions

A worldly wordly description of less words than can describe
plastic signs and visions, other-worldly decisions
of fear and manifestations
of the body, reaching out, saving and storing stories
formed firmly, unalterably precious and life affirming dribble
invaluable, horrific.

Sometimes his skin is distracted by a lack of heat
causing wonder and amazement
is his location incorrect?
his locution, at times suspect?
It's alright, there's a tiny spot left,
in which the forms can fulfill their dutious act
requiring not time to protract.

For the gnarly times our parents thought of,
parents thought of
parents thought of.
All progenitors share equal blame
for discontinuities, defined as such to set
you at ease, send it astray and don't forget
the message is materialist dialectic.

TBI

What Do Political Theorists Listen To?

This message was mandated: GET AS MUCH RENT SPACE IN SEVERAL JAIL CELLS FOLLOWING SECOND OFFENSE--Searching for a standard vision takes the lengthy approach(ment), however sanctity is full of holes. We should feel comfort that the Democrats control the United States Congress; the trauma of sublimated war-time is transferred to the phantasy of painless liberalism. Shall they be called the Recollecting 90's, the decade that attempted to collapse a century into singularity? Never previously has a society possessed such a detailed account of itself, documenting such a wide array of its historical foundation. This has not yet taken into account theories of hegemony; the point is that the record exists. The record exists and it is hard to decipher who is recollecting.

Expertise, that delightful form of academic and 'manual' fetishism, serves a twofold paradoxical purpose: 1) To coagulate; to create condensed volumes, 'readers,' literary overviews, guidebooks, manuals (disclosures of work-knowledge)--those conveniences that benefit the limits of time and energy. 2) To expand technical knowledge of areas of expertise through research and experimentation. The same principles guided the development of the nineteenth and twentieth century's "historically conscious" musical innovations (examples of which might include Wagner, Stravinsky, Bergson, Xenakis, Miles Davis, Henry Cow, &c.). It may be possible to elaborate a politically endeavorous account of 19th and 20th C. musical history, considering sonic recordings as objects of philosophical and socio-political inquiry.

Wrong Currency?

"Trembling in waves that golden wisps of nebula made weirdly visible, there rose a timid hint of far-off melody, droning in faint chords that our own universe of stars knows not... It was a song, but not the song of any voice. Night and the spheres sang it, and it was old when space and Nyarlathotep and the Other Gods were born."
-H.P. Lovecraft
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath

This is dedicated to cocaine classroom and music theory. Scenes of public maternal bath steam and orgy (open the window). The plastic cocaine joyride results in uncontrollable black vomit, but the magazine collection is unfortunately saved from said vomit!