SCalvert_Text08_Theatre of Operations


	STEVE CALVERT	COLLECTIONS
	THEATRE OF OPERATIONS 2008 Plagiarist Assemblage Compile. .. notebook transcription text spanning Nov 7 2007 thru Dec 21 2008 Illustrations by Steve Calvert and the PS Cut-Out filter, from the collection Abstractions Co-opted and co-authored by the Vox Myriad, Vector Eventual, Victor Vector Stephop Steppinfetchit, Halocline Siphonophore, Vert Vent, Receive Sante Estabien, and the Manifold Multiplex, as dictated to the scribe Dimensions Variable, in Vancouver BC, 2008 CE... ….PATAPHOR : FTL SPOOL .... Information without a model is just noise - data is meaningless without a theoretical framework … arbitrary arbitrations --- offer the reader as many routes of entry as possible - not a dogma, but a pattern, a system, a practice, a habit, a dharma - lead gradually to the realization that there is no way out, no exit - until ultimate data transfer interrupt - i know it’s not real but my brain can't tell the difference ... theatre of operations - solve et coagula - non-dualist historical consciousness - rejecting none - since you are, we are - myriad ubuntu – irreducible complexity - anamnesis, re:member - double caveat - suboptimal truths and fictions - jotunheim, altjeringa, acephale - Bifrost – the tremulous way – self evident incomplete mastery - merciless brutality and pointless horror - the source of infinite regress - today is yesterday tomorrow - war is peace - victory at all costs - ha-ha Freedom of speech is allowed, but is of little use without the development of understanding, which is not pursued - ignoring the fact that the questions are every bit as important as the answer, satire passes for meaningful allegory -- The method known as ‘scatter’ by which an impact is considered effective by virtue of multiple activity - identifying with the processes of creation, they are themselves locus for another self-perpetuating propensity to err, circulating the incompletions - Massage multipliers - America invented recreational forestry – to US, the world is a fashioning instrument, which polishes mankind through an unrelenting brutal combat, compelled forever to wrestle the worm Doubt - the modernist esthetic point is that there is no such thing as passive vision, as seemed to be the case in the traditional art - there is only active envisioning, that is, the creative construction of a vision from a certain perceptual perspective. it is invariably informed by a certain weltanschauung, some consensual fiction, however unconscious, configuring tentative impositions of conformism upon otherwise-iconoclastic sensations - resilient figurative representations becomes only a problematic patchwork of disfigured references, de-idealizing, decentering, the human, in the process - arguing that reality is always virtual - that the virtual IS the really real - my intellect could not even touch this - looking for patterns in the chaos, listening attentively to washing machines - the world is populated by all kinds of intelligence - mammalian intelligence alone must have great range - thousands of forms kin to ours - lets be less provincial about ourselves - we don’t know the effects which ripple from our actions – Natural selection is not random, nor natural - a discordian is prohibited from believing what he reads - intermedian fortean principle - reality is a changing condition - a phenomena is more or less important than its interpretation - eccentric manners of dedicated amateurs - if you can do mechanically what is presently done electronically, that's steampunk - there is true joy in overly complicated mechanism - catastrophic genesis, luxurious despair, discovery in paralysis --- time is an illusion, lunch time, doubly so - that's the moral authority these young men have - most of these people are not ready to be unplugged - its hard to be a rebel, cuz you're always working with the resistance – my wrath is very comfy - wherever you are we’re already there - College de pataphysique - the white shadow - quarum for a secret society is one - only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible - the cautionary whale, like any good pathogen, has found itself a carrier, in state-of-the-art urban pacification - a dutch dating service for the police state – very low entropy systems - bigger on the inside - risk benefit analyses: change your habits - the only freedom you have is freedom to buy - hiphopricy of our democracy - win win crapshoot for all involved - light up the darkness - science has the greatest adventure stories - there is no history, only competing fictions with varying degrees of plausibility - preoccupied with trivial matters, obsessional behaviours, irrational trivial distractions inhibiting clear cognition, impeding synaptic linkage - aggressive agitation,microwave radiation-borne destabilization of neurotransmission, this spiral degenesis rots thought and self and spirit - how happy we are to ride the carousel of life, the spinning wheels of fate fortune and destiny - a slave gives birth to slaves - consider the price of vengeance and freedom - a slave knows her place, and has a value - a good master cares for his property - beyond visual range combat - its pretty metal that he's being eaten by wolves - i teach sundayschool, motherfucker - week of dogfights, courts marshall, rough draughts - transmission vector - illustrative myths, collective hallucinations - marduk the sun god, slayer of tiamat who lives within me - - science history culture nature - marduk rules, he totally does - in diversifying my meat-portfolio, i am not constrained by data - serenity is achieved by those who embrace it - knowing without knowing how you know - i have total cognizance of every synapse in my cerebral cortex - millions of unemployed puppeteers - under martian law, doctors and other wizards are forbidden - i need silence to mind meld with the intertubes - biomass manipulated by an intelligent evolutionary process - robomonkey! more science! - forcing change into stalemated systems What happens when you're trapped inside a game? when only the devil knows the rules and all you can do is improvise until suddenly everything ends... i remember now... there was only one way to verify my damning suspicions... i did what i always do... i locked myself in my room and built one of my own... and there you were Victor, hiding behind the curtains of existence itself - for three billion years i have waited for you, while you were in the crown, the white hot room - like a perfect emotional molecule turning in mathematical space --gestural graphemes scintillating high intentionality - - reason consists of always seeing things as they are - every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do – we can all be guilty sometimes of mistaking our ideas for things - gatekeeper of misinformation - the idea of the monster is more real than the monster itself - an overly extended metaphor, in going beyond mere ornamentation of the original aspect has taken a life of its own - assumptions based on assumptions, belief systems or rhetoric run amok - two degrees of separation from reality - metaphorical similarity used as a concrete on which to base itself - worlds built on fear and mistaken assumption - self-portrait ingested by my tools - atavism - There is nothing in life to be feared, only to be understood – high achievement, high intelligence - a reemergence of ancestral genetic traits – reptilian brain’s mercurial skill for generating frightening hypotheses, with complete lack of empathy – do not embrace negativity, instead a philosophy of wisdom, compassion - a plaisir a voire tes plaisirs – a strange truly disconnected feeling – there’s nothing on the line and no threat – doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is in itself a form of violence – unarmed truth and unconditional love - it’s not if you can, it’s do ya? - the master of all life has appointed this place as the place to light our fires – and here, the first sign of extinction - exalted supreme brotherhood of neptune, release the kracken! alchemists saw the arrival of the paraclete/holyghost as equivalent to the resurrection of nature through the Great Work – we practice a ruthless realism - i am what i am becoming - everything that happens in nature, happens in reality - it is better to be technical than mystical- creation is essentially dead from a thermal perspective - man against man, man against nature, man against himself - will to live is the only battle you have, on a field of pure consciousness and effort – come’on cuddlefish! everyone fights! a wildly captivating state, mania leaves cocaine in the dust - gravity in higher dimensions, eventually to be burned up in a terribly destructive orbit - higher order explains alot of stuff, important for mankind ellegua appears a trickster child young and virile, horned and ithyphallic - legba is sometimes an old man with a crutch or cane, sprinkling water, smoking a pipe, wearing a broad rimmed straw hat - gatekeeper between worlds of the living and the mysterious - legba acts as intermediary between iwa and humanity - opens the road - taught mankind how to use the oracles and how to interpret them - gives or denies permisson to speak with the spirits and is believed to speak all human languages - always the first and last spirit invoked, opens and closes the doorway - he is the great elocution, the voice of god - legba facilitates communication, speech and understanding – lord of letters and learning, lord of categories, of beginnings, of obstacles, patron of arts and sciences, deva of intellect, wisdom, cleverness - ganesha is popularly worshipped as a remover of obstacles, he also places obstacles in the path of those who need to be checked -- his dharma, is to place and remove difficuly - it is his particular territory, the reason for his creation --- obstacle creator, obstacle averter , thus bearing both negative and positive aspect - invoked as patron of letters during writing sessions - initiatory vector invoking the ultimate ancestors, half-snake half-human replicators - repairers of the heavens - maintaining the walls and pillars of the sky - regenerating humans after great calamity - in form of dragons they carve out the rivers, and drain the floods, protecting against dangers of water - culverts, rivers covered over, subeterranean waterways, aquifer basilicas - svartalfaheim, underworld domain of the dark elves - one nation underground i have my black periods, but they do not have me - i am pregnant, my mind implanted with alien thoughts - i can't heal despair, i only tolerate it - then teach me? Madman heal thyself - healing is unburdening - allowing the patient to ask for help openly - unconscious desires expressed in daylight and integrated - not liberation, but integration - it is my task to make you feel comfort less - a life without care or danger - deny it, and you win for yourself the freedom to be hungry, homeless, hurt - as you were, so shall you be - as this fallen world is, so are ye - apogee - vector eventual - dimensions variable - artistic ventures are worthy investments? - you never know when i'm gonna drop some pearls - an insect whose larvae eat the thoughts of the parent-host - older than life, older than the oldest thing, I AM, undying beast - champion of genetic diversity - yes its a dirty job but somebody's gotta make a conscious decision to do it - be the man/worm you want to be until the day you die - it is our duty to be as artificial as possible - I ONLY DO IMPRESSIONS - improvisateur – if you only do something once, it's always your personal best - you should always do your best, otherwise they won't know how to handicap you … lose confidence, because its the right thing to do --- you're not just aimlessly drifting through life for yourself, you're doing it for every man in America --- sonar mapping the event-cloud of unknowing, there is only the vibration of the machinery - modern artists reverse engineered the brain, discovering laws of seeing in order to captivate the eye – without any effort, they accomplish what they set out to do - you were always here, waiting for yourself to arrive - you're there, you are a where - the shortest arc is not always swiftest - it moves everything with zero effort –seek your own salvation with grave diligence – the purpose of science is to find patterns and regularity in nature - what happens when artists attempt to conduct science is that everything immediately becomes funny - categorically wrong in both approach and technique - every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing the analogous, and thus an outline for a generative methodology - machines built to do one perfect thing, - as i being poor have only my dreams - to sever the circular continuity of this great society - just a clock ticking - it's not the law that is important, it is our obedience to it - low-entropy instruments against resistance to seek and eradicate competition - - the logic of emergent process is that when you let it loose it’s not just mayhem- overcoming your own natural human desire not to get hurt -- screwups are nature's way of saying 'i'm bored' – possibly i should confess a note of intention : for the opening of some shamanic communication interstice, transpersonal interface, an interregnum to clear the way for imagination to leak out sideways, trusting the magical idea of drawing toward an intersection - colliding a stochastic ideographic process into coincidence with the ridges and ripples of an imaginary morphogenetic field -- these characters represent something of what walked through that door – pattern-echoes of future ancestors - only partially intentional materializations of id-formation - persistence of vision, change blindness, attune, because it is - disaggregate cooling low entropy - we live in a fractal universe - this allows us to make inferences about new objects using metaphor and metonymy, and actually there’s a chance that those inferences are correct - thermodynamic ice from fire – nature is crooked - the paranoid method is a response to chaos - a way of ordering, giving a shape and significance to confusion - only the method itself is a sinister deity – synarchy, the conspiratorial anti-anarchy, is both a form of psychosis and an alternative deity, delirium of interpretive association bearing an arbitrary systematic structure "The psychology of the orgiastic as an overflowing feeling of life and strength, where even pain still has the effect of a stimulus, gave me the key to the concept of tragic feeling, which had been misunderstood both by Aristotle and even more by modern pessimists. Tragedy is so far from being a proof of the pessimism (in Schopenhauer's sense) of the Greeks that it may, on the contrary, be considered a decisive rebuttal and counterexample. Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and most painful episodes, the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustible vitality even as it witnesses the destruction of its greatest heroes — that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I guessed to be the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet. Not in order to be liberated from terror and pity, not in order to purge oneself of a dangerous affect by its vehement discharge — which is how Aristotle understood tragedy — but in order to celebrate oneself the eternal joy of becoming, beyond all terror and pity — that tragic joy included even joy in destruction" - Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols, What I Owe to the Ancients, 5: Praise life, remain life affirming - we need to learn from the world itself, be realist - we don't create the world with our classifications - - form does not need human signifiers - it is capable of self-organization - idealist projections excise signifiers from an amorphous flow - non-human expressivity exists in nature - matter is morphogenetically pregnant - the world doesn't need us to be born - the dream persists whether or not we dream it, because of the properties of the material of which it is made - and in that we share this property with everything else that exists – boundless enthusiasm for creativity and ideas –every form of morphogenesis is a source of inspiration - we're plural, we have lots of selves - when we're writing, we're exaggerating one of those selves - the one fiction in non-fiction is the first person - that's not you - try to remain more interested in questions than answers - – in our lives it is known we may love new people while continuing to love the old – fucking is liberty in essence - as onanism substitutes for coitus, freedom regresses - at the heart of adult sex, freedom exults - the human body is meant to be shared - it's the other side of the mirror - it reclaims from the banalities and servitudes, an inviolate space of possibilities - where it is lived freely, love and its’ sexual fulfillment emancipate the human spirit and bring it home to the enigma of the human body, the soft but meteoric laughter of liberty herself - the imperatives of libido unfold beyond good and evil, as does breath and the need for nourishment - Every creature delivers on its sexual needs - We learn to restrain these impulses - All this deception - gas pedal or brake pedal - A huge clutch, - If you can find it, grind it - we have rehabilitated another group of the party's enemies - vote your conscience – toastmasters-night at the empire-freehouse - Just one man to dismantle history? what was it like before the war? - Obviously god is a woman - Thou shall not commit adultery? no dude is ever gonna dream that up - men are monogamous if it means sleeping with everybody only once - - when did we acquire testes? you realize using that as an excuse only makes you more guilty - heresy and high treason - i had no idea you enjoyed 'the lifestyle' - a plague of snakes to punish your insolence, gravitational altitude readjustment preceeding total skeletal reorganization - i want the pain that's how i learn - pain is how I evolve from the guilt, there's wisdom, clarity there - when you're in pain that’s how you uncover what you really are, when you focus to the point of a knife - i see an angel blazing with the light of god - you will only fail when you stop trying - so passionate, so savage - such a man would be magnificent - you do it because your god compels you - love your faults, embrace them - if god embraces them then how can they be faults - the truth is that we're all perfect just as we are - god suffers from a multiple personality disorder, and each of us is one of god’s unintegrated personalities - Magic is the therapy, the theatre of operations in which reintegration is achieved – we are the species that grows beyond our limitations, given the freedom to take shape - it is only in the concept of ‘limit’ that the ‘boundless’ takes form -- not playing to win, but playing to keep playing - potential to realize true difference in an infinite game – suboptimal and recursive by nature - a way of playing the game of playing all the games - technology is the medium by which we play the game of finding out who we are and what is our purpose - find the place where there is the least resistance to new ideas - Home colleging, collaging - paradoxical self-referential recursive pointing back on themselves – circular reverse causality, self-ordering echo-activity … leave us alone, we’re on it – in the collection of personas i call my self, memory occurs - if there's a unity that makes them all me, i don't know what it is - somedays, eyes open, i can enjoy them all - - the primary datum is experience - circles of science, biomimetic construct -–– teach and practice research - a genre of science fiction that shows science itself to be a fiction - narcotic freefall when something is worded just right - the audacity of hopelessness - shadow is your cheapest prop - 90% of the visual field is not being processed -- We see things no as they are but as we are – most of what we see is what we thought before we looked – the world is not as it seems – waking dreams when you get a jaw drop, you can inform, you have a brain in full receptive mode – nostalgic for right now - We are the species that goes beyond our limitations, given the freedom to take shape – a bullet in the chamber – I appreciate your obedience - There are things in this world which you do not understand and yet which are true – you are a scientist, you must know this – disbelief is suspended for seven minutes - abandon everything you’ve always stood for to go searching for your missing bulge-eyed dragon with the help of a mysterious green witch, distilled elf marrow, and instinctive desire for questioning - … climbing falling rolling jumping – adventures from which he can never return to give this knowledge to the world - a complete waste of time - delta state - Dieties suffer from multiple personality disorder, and each of us is one of some god’s unintegrated personalities. Magic is the therapy by which reintegration is achieved – ideas are more valuable than money - To do a needed work short changes art, it is extremely important that art be unjustifiable – personal nobility, entitlement to do as you think is right – bonus points for chewing through your muzzle and speaking your mind – it is only in the notion of the ‘limit’ that the boundless takes form –planet earth seems determined to challenge our imagination – gaia is herself a ‘pataphysical systems assemblage artist The correct religion is – Shinto – a lot of people talk about the earth, but how many actually penetrate it – Cacelians – legless rainforest amphibians, nesting in tortoise burrows – kami, elemental spirits ascribed to anything unusual or fascinating – modifying existing stones, ice age megaliths – geomantic morphologies – fractal-entendres - fierce green – mille feuilles of ideas – long-axis stereo optics - Deep water sounding, topography, tomography – cyborg sinophore – robotic biopolymers - spinster cogwerks, dimensions variable– inner space center – take control of your robotic deep submersible – Arias for anthropomorphs, gillnetting the Pleroma for religious replicators – Bifrost – the tremulous way – it is the nature of the mind to separate from the body and wander alone --- like no experience in your upbringing --- a more engaged and literate lie/life - the mythical overlay is so enormous and all revisionist - is the voyage worth the risk? if it is, let the lines go and sail free - a boat is the needle of the compass, the compass being the rest of the universe - the navigator pulls islands up out of the sea - A or V, you gotta have both, this is theatre – thinking is drawing the parallels back to you - building excitement - pull yerself together and come get drunk with us --- challenging our minds in focused ways, leaving comfort zones - choose your thoughts carefully - increasing capacity to lead a joyful life - continually elaborating ourselves, new skill acquisition, harnessing visual motor rehearsal, when you visualize you materialize - potential for positive plasticity - malleability is also volatile - normally we can’t see faeriefolk – they generate a cloaking field, an aura of glamour –- the truce, men would keep to the cities and magical beings to the forest, is broken –your body’s a temple? Only if you’re religious, mine’s an amusement park - which holocaust should be chosen – even one dies, and the world is poorer - we kill one to save a thousand, endanger millions more –– elemental forest gods, givers of life and the destroyers - let this remind you of why you once feared the dark I think because others speak– individual and mutual responsibility – fists in the air in the land of hiphoprisy –others of the sub-par cresche – those who got devolved again – a wound that will never heal – so long as we keep picking it – if I die today that’s the man I’ll be – individual and mutual responsibility – holy shitballs I’m feelin’ it – every time Barak speaks an angel has an orgasm – we’re cylons, and we have been from the start – he speaks for both sides cuz he’s a purple, a Plutocrat – in time we begin to look and act like our tools – – collections agents - tax credits for investing in art - upcycle assembly programme supply based resource economics - ‘pata-tech-kno/gno-logy - psychosymbioschemas of mass diversion– lost our ability to concentrate, to stay focused - jumping from point to point of information – inability to read deeply, think broadly, contemplate – at home with a superficial relationship to information – Paradoxical self-generating infinite recursivity, self-referential pointing back to themselves – circular causality with the property of self-assembly -– give it up, pick your battles – life is 90% maintenance - incrementally increase the increase - Embroiled in circular causality, a nice docile population enthralls itself - echo-active thought-forms, super-mind captive in it’s own fatal gravity well –-– not playing to win, but playing to keep playing – recursive nature, infinite game – a way of playing the game of playing all games - To have a robot do something without me controlling it - a substance in which distinction between organic and inorganic is indiscernable, and the emergence of life undecidable - near-living - technology is the medium in which we make sport of finding out who we are and what is our purpose – potential to realize true difference The only limits are the ones we place on ourselves -– arrive in the place of least resistence to new ideas – it is our decisions which alter our lives – your pain is leading you down the path of desire – the craft of devil’s advocate – the goof of all time, god likes to watch, he’s a prankster – he set the laws in opposition– glamour is the oldest form of magic – your vanity is justified, it’s you, you’re a star – true magic is neither black nor white it is both, as nature is - what you give out you get back times three – as i will it, so shall it be - stand up and stand together - I invoke thee, rise – the struggle of for and against is one of the mind’s greatest diseases – find something more important than you are – all potentials are realized – all possible worlds exist - Reduce our country’s reliance on foreign art -– You can’t take away what people already have –living the change as your way – keep asking these questions, if you don’t want to cooperate with the marketplace, you won’t be allowed to survive – not having faith is a luxury, in difficult times it was forgivable to make up myths and stories, with liberty and justice for all– there is a time when panic is the appropriate response–– good hunting, standby for combat jump - life is appalling and laughter is calling – Memes - he started it, but the idea belongs to all of us now – he’s not responsible for what it means to me – sagacity, being able to link together the seemingly innocuous to come to valuable conclusions –get good – focus – push – through shyness and self-doubt, serve the value of sharing with others – gastrognomies of passionate workafrolics –– chance favours the prepared mind – an open attention is required on the part of the scientist to ‘detect the importance of information revealed accidentally man will become better when you show him what he is like – love consists in overestimating the differences of one wo/man over another – informed consent is the bedrock of democracy – uninformed [uniformed] consent is worth nothing – you’re promised fifteen minutes of fame, what they don’t tell you is twelve of those mintues are a rectal exam – I am the most humble person, I’m a pro at it – I wanna be just like you – tongues interconnected by song, exchanging knowledge – uni-verse – we are all of one mind – we’re small but we don’t feel weak - saying things that you know to be true – we’re alive! – I love the future! – he’s gone off the reservation – trackers, collectors – the imagined nations - we will turn you into us –– soon now – interdimensional beings in point of fact – like a broom to their footprints – into the space between spaces – their treasure was knowledge – somewhere your grandpa is laughing – how much of human life is lost in watching – Break down so you can build up – snakes and ladders –solve et coagula – I ching alchemy –– the wise stay alert, creative, and in worried contemplation – waitingfor the moment when they can change the things that make their lives unlivable –a great mystery come to our mortal aid – playing god? We’re not playing– everyone who had a talent for it lived happily ever after –one touch of nature makes the whole world ken – it is no measure of health to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society - corporate plutocracy, scarcity – unarmed truth and unconditional love – efficiency sustainability abundance – enemies of profit – instinct? There is no human nature, only human behavior – dominion is given to spirits who take a spiritual body – no spirit without a body has the right to control intelligent management of resources– our true divinity is in our powers of creativity, which can catalyze synergetic symbiotic emergence – the signal coming from our true empirical oneness – victims of our own imperfect misunderstandings – to understand is to transform what is a crisis of consciousness – put your trust in allah, but tie up your camel… six more weeks of propaganda – watch all the commercials or you’re stealing ELF RAGE – GNOM-VAR – sidelog I fear the dark cloud of the sith shrouds us all -Like it or not, war encourages technical growth exponentially - I regret that I have but one life to give - I want more lives – I’m not yet worthy to drink your blood –- violence might be an expression of creativity – ultimate extension of the existential man – do not yield, do not flinch, stand up, look straight in it’s eyes and kill - There’s no chin beneath Chuck Norris’s beard, only another fist – so shall they sample my blade – we’ll never submit, they will – not praising service but demanding it - - No mercy no prisoners no surrender - safer more secure freedoms – less freedom to, more freedom from… bigotry, oppression , unprovoked assault, unnecessary fatality, extremes of cold and heat – vanquish the unpardonable enemies of hateful inequity – right makes might – for freedom, some of our best men must pay with their lives – war is awful business – I’m gonna send you to out on a suicide mission son, it’s gonna hurt for a hot minute, I’m not gonna lie to you about that – - you’re perfectly healthy, but if you’re still hesitant about medicating yourself preemptively… - what was it like before the war? how our lives have changed … plight of the industrialized working class on this superhighway strip-mall prison planet – The secret lives of married men - sophisticated rationalizations for being complete assholes - double dealing, it’s very human eh? You didn’t find that? - Information is all I got - I don’t trust anyone right now - I got to worry about protecting myself - to speak publicly is not for the weak of heart – live by the pen, die by the sword –- i want you to get cancer, what you're doing here is fucked - of course i speak english just not to you suckah I am the elected official - For every action I have a superior and opposite reaction – I always give 110% so the way I see it I deserve a 10% refund - nothing is more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash – people can be made to enjoy their servitude by emulating their oppressors – infernal machines, copycats without original - creating/sustaining the new faith - - offered enough scientific rationales for tyranny, eagerly orchestrate chemical lobotomies for friends and family - grave disorders organized brilliantly -- one party system with two factions -- combining methods of terror with absolute allegiance - irreputable dominance with predatory disdain for the underclass ---- the state remains the number one cause of unnatural death – but we should remain courteous - attitude of gratitude - the art of surrender is irrepressible in a nice docile population - ‘change your inner conversation with money’ - white crime bullpucky jibberjabber fucktards - who know better but do anyways - we erased over the federal copyright warnings – give the people what they want - stockholders of our own happiness -- incrementally increase the increase -- I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the minds of men - that’s all you gotta do - Folkvangr or Valhalla, we all fight for invincible love - Very french existential reaction, very selfish, very male – the high style outsider– trickery and vice, that’s painting – it’s like committing a crime – to see somebody that strong be that weak - you will outlive your talent and you will die alone – – nothing but a name, the only return on all that work – the criminal ambition to govern over the lives of other people should be weighted among our highest crimes, but instead it is the function of lawmakers to render all citizens subject to judgment, equally submissive before the intrinsically superior wisdom of state officials --- no man is less perfect than a likely candidate for office -- without reservation or evasion? it's part of the territory – a universal correspondence - the system is perfect, the people who run it aren't - avaricious manipulative duplicitous supremacists wielding an arrogant belligerent contempt over all living things - pythagorean specialists in disinformation and interrogation - men of few words who say them over and over –isn’t it hard to watch? then don't watch --- but i think your mind can handle some considerable boggling --- there are limits to our realism - hanging onto hope in the most vainly irrational ways - against the most hopeless circumstances -- cold speed, agility, and sudden physical injury – I used to make fun of bloggers, but he’s a nice guy and he doesn’t buy it – don’t move, this is funny, watch… saturn’s about to devour his children… again… Synathropic species – crows, rats, roaches –I agonize over it all the time – agent of intolerance, he’ll stand there until the last reporter sits down – mouthing infectious repetitive sloganeering – do what you have to do in each moment in order to survive and keep going - - no surrender, n- o admission, no concession, no confession forced by political necessity - god’s madmen - more than anything, embarrassment – let’s just make sure we’re on the field in the fourth quarter – we’re all prisoners of war now – POW-POV – underground is a state of information control – a parallel universe – you are not here, invisible – weather bureau – if you didn’t have to know you didn’t know and didn’t ask –--a culture and society of resistance, total opposition to mind control, mania, and genocide – freedom to be the farthest out people we can be – leftist organizations, when they reach this point of irrelevancy, generally turn on themselves - psychic stress and upheaval in the anti-war movement, developed a loss of clarity about ideals – in the 1970s, many were in retreat – he’s 30 years old, too old to be a revolutionary – holding my nose and going through with the surrender –violence doesn’t work - all violence which is not sanctioned by the government is either criminal or mentall ill –-they wanted to get rid of envy, covetousness, but what did you give up in return? the will to try, and the faith to believe it possible– they were forced to be outlaws by the way the system is run and we think they’re great it is the duty of just men to disobey unjust laws -- all power to the oligarchic self-elect - religion has no monopoly on divine self-righteousness - fortune rewards the bold - - it’s good to be the Man – this is the America we love – a real disappointment to racists everywhere – as if the entire world had won the superbowl – handing us a navy, nuclear arsenal, keys to fort knox, that feels about right for 400 years of slavery and oppression –the truth ain’t sexy – defiantly, he believed in himself - doing something really well is not having to do it all –delegate until you’re doing nothing, then you have plausible deniability - the governance had become a stealth party –appeals to the common man while gives benefits only to the ultra rich – simple and scary – dancin’ as fast as he could – hey, i've got tons of plans, you don't see any of them getting done do you? - chairman of the most evil campaign – get inside the head of your enemy – now that maxim was working on him – life gets even with you in the end – I want to believe that canada’s intentions are noble – if you have a strong force you have to exercise it - it’s prohibitively expensive if you don’t use it – a strong attack eliminates the need for defense – they kill so that we may live - the simulation revealed, the transparency of the illusion is in tatters - thoughts lie, a lot –hiding in plain sight –never ask for anything directly – born into positions of privilege against which they rebel into mediocrity – both developed and uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with the minimum of mental exertion – he’d been licking himself a long time and it was kind of a relief when he was put down, I think – hatching, matching and dispatching – sperm to the worm – wars mark armies for generations - glorified suicide missions, the air observers, Vimy was the first electronic battlefield - we all end up in the sand – don’t worry, I won’t say anything until it’s too late – we fought them tooth and nail - biting tongue, chewing nails informed but not inundated -- converting information’s negative charge into positive energy - there's no energy crisis, there's a crisis of imagination - no governments, no bands, just people - there's more than enough - there is a lie in the human mind regarding lack - stinginess becomes your experience – a green bubble where a lot of people will lose even more money evenly, but we’ll be left with this incredible infrastructure – the methods of science, the aims of religion - return of the titans, giants, great pharaohs – faith-based economics, fully integrated police state advertising new invisible invincible monsters - I didn’t think you’d miss what you didn’t remember – the very life’s-breath of empire - if it’s not broke, fix it until it is – all power to the people – Muddleheads and scatterbrains –ugliest possible expression of the zeitgeist – when you feel that you have right on your side, you can do some horrific things – I cherished my hate as a badge of moral superiority – there are no innocents in nations waging wars of aggression – the most horrific hit the US had felt on its soil – ordinary life was dispensible, they joined that tradition – tribal warriors of prison populations – we didn’t do it but we dug it – we’d thought it impossible to defy the FBI – We are celebrities in a culture that values sameness – we await the malevolence – saturn devouring his children - it's not Gaian all the time, sometimes organisms produce variants that kill themselves - the brain is a really expensive organ to run, and not always culturally appropriate - there’s a police for everything - not always correct but never in doubt - a trophy hunter on safari wherever there's conflict - you can't see the eyes of the demon until he comes a'callin' sublime comfort in deep dejection – toroidal cycle of narcissistic selfishness - self-soothing, self-loathing, self-absorbed autistic loop - from autodidact to autocrat to autocide - mind forged manacles, custom and habit, duty and obedience - mystical bridging of the symbolic and the real, of the label and the thing - the animated map - against order, unity, harmony, rationality - hardly a joyous embrace of life's attendant chaos - imagination compels great art - spunk mirth joy achievement! - instinctive libertarians who seek freedom from the institutions which contain them - incurable means curable from within - what you resist, persists - size is nothing - the lore of attrition - diminishing returns - clouds of splendid ideas reveal unspun marvels to me - born free but everywhere in chains - there's nothing big oil couldn't do, if only they had a some cash - the devil's on his own side, period, and there's always a catch - to not multiply entities beyond necessity… pfahph… as a species, we're a disaster - if i were still building bridges i'd have jumped off one by now -- i too am an underground loser -- lexicon artist - wordsalad glyptodont - enthralled in rapt immersion - tunneling tortoise of paranoiac methodologies, intensifying interrogative insularity -- creativity takes on an aspect of compulsion – a familiar resentment, begrudged the sustenance of our creative solitude - - it was all that sustained us, and thus was all-consuming - - as simple as things can be, but no less - from their example, i learned quickly to feed myself– am I the kind of person a woman could love? – you deserve a man, not a ball of neurotic guilt - single-minded pursuit of solitary interests - vicious, viscous circle - the more gratification we found in our geniuses, the more isolated we grew - absorbed in our separate pursuits - we started a staring contest ,,, THE SECRET - [unlawful compression] laws of attraction, whatever is going on in your mind, is attracted to you - you become and attract what you think of most - thoughts become things - when you focus with passion, measurable frequencies emit - prolonged chronic feelings are our guidance system, a feedback mechanism for [mis]correcting alignment - whatever you are feeling is exactly what is in process of becoming - a shifting of emotion will change your day - mood attracts circumstance - what you think, feel, manifest are always a match, no exception - all undone by a shift in awareness - how bad do you want change? - guide your thoughts based on what you feel, you will know that you are the creator of your own reality – in the creative process, there are no limit to the wishes - want what you truly want - you will attract the way - turn fantasy into fact, have it now - the universe likes speed - don't delay - when the nudge is there, act - pay attention to what you are attracted to, as you hold images they are attracted to you - it does this by law, effortlessly - size is nothing in the universe - if you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body - always and only dwell upon the end result – resolving that 'how' is the way of the universe - it always knows the shortest fastest way - habituate the process - feel exhilarated - it is magical! - imagination is everything --- whatever a man can conceive, he can achieve - life is meant to be abundant - wealth is a mindset - change your inner conversation with money - money comes easily and frequently, wellbeing abounds - we are creators - concentrate on what you're making - when you say NO, attraction brings it to you anyway - if you have this knowledge, you have to claim it - orient yourself to the best part of people around you - its all you - the human mind is the biggest factor in healing, righting the body's 'at-ease' – a body does what it does, rebuilds itself - the self-healing immune system can be coached to repair itself - happier thoughts lead to healthier biochemistry - you can change your life and you can heal yourself - using your mind you can put things back together again - living in a conditional way, man becomes what he thinks about -- every single 'i'm not' is a creation - as they push against the unwanted, they make more of it - be pro-something if you're anti-whatever - become still, take your attention away from the irritant - when the voice and vision inside become more clear and loud than the opinions on the outside, you've mastered the art - the future expands, the old disappears - you are the management of your own creation, harmony and happiness - another way that the universe becomes conscious of itself - break yourself free from hereditary patterns - you are an energy field empowering and sharing with others, moving in and through form, extensions of one vibrating continuum - you are the image and likeness of god - the infinite field of unfolding potentials and possibilities - all power is within and therefore under our control - we are unlimited - your purpose is what you say it is, and none will stand in judgement - if it's fun, i'll do it - my primary aim is to experience joy, love, freedom - constantly putting myself in that state - anything that makes you feel good will draw more of that into your life - don't fuck with the will of the people - enjoy life with us, it's a magnificent trip - unbounded potential, all the avatars have understood this - the more you see it, the more you'll understand - you are a magnificent creator - go forth - most of your time will be spent collecting data while you decide what it is that you want - the moment you begin to think properly, it will be there to sustain and guide you - that i know for sure - feel good - follow your bliss -- best words fallen from a human tongue -- ……………… Notebook transcribe : SOLVE ET COAGULA VECTOR EVENTUAL Health, Long Life, Prosperity Nov 07 – Dec 08 Vancouver BC	TEXT by S.Calvert 1999 - EXP 2002 - Middle Worlds 2004 - ATCG 2005 - 'Pataphysics 2006 - Maintain Your Enthusiasm 2007 - Just Is 2008 - Theatre of Operations 2009 - Authentic Replica AUDIO by S.Calvert ARTby Steve Calvert MORE ARTISTS LINKS BLOG CONTACT
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2008 Plagiarist Assemblage Compile. ..

notebook transcription text spanning Nov 7 2007 thru Dec 21 2008

Illustrations by Steve Calvert and the PS Cut-Out filter, from the collection Abstractions

Co-opted and co-authored by the Vox Myriad, Vector Eventual, Victor Vector Stephop Steppinfetchit, Halocline Siphonophore, Vert Vent, Receive Sante Estabien, and the Manifold Multiplex, as dictated to the scribe Dimensions Variable, in Vancouver BC, 2008 CE...

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Information without a model is just noise - data is meaningless without a theoretical framework … arbitrary arbitrations --- offer the reader as many routes of entry as possible - not a dogma, but a pattern, a system, a practice, a habit, a dharma - lead gradually to the realization that there is no way out, no exit - until ultimate data transfer interrupt - i know it’s not real but my brain can't tell the difference ... theatre of operations - solve et coagula - non-dualist historical consciousness - rejecting none - since you are, we are - myriad ubuntu – irreducible complexity - anamnesis, re:member - double caveat - suboptimal truths and fictions - jotunheim, altjeringa, acephale - Bifrost – the tremulous way – self evident incomplete mastery - merciless brutality and pointless horror - the source of infinite regress - today is yesterday tomorrow - war is peace - victory at all costs - ha-ha

Freedom of speech is allowed, but is of little use without the development of understanding, which is not pursued - ignoring the fact that the questions are every bit as important as the answer, satire passes for meaningful allegory -- The method known as ‘scatter’ by which an impact is considered effective by virtue of multiple activity - identifying with the processes of creation, they are themselves locus for another self-perpetuating propensity to err, circulating the incompletions - Massage multipliers - America invented recreational forestry – to US, the world is a fashioning instrument, which polishes mankind through an unrelenting brutal combat, compelled forever to wrestle the worm Doubt - the modernist esthetic point is that there is no such thing as passive vision, as seemed to be the case in the traditional art - there is only active envisioning, that is, the creative construction of a vision from a certain perceptual perspective. it is invariably informed by a certain weltanschauung, some consensual fiction, however unconscious, configuring tentative impositions of conformism upon otherwise-iconoclastic sensations - resilient figurative representations becomes only a problematic patchwork of disfigured references, de-idealizing, decentering, the human, in the process - arguing that reality is always virtual - that the virtual IS the really real - my intellect could not even touch this - looking for patterns in the chaos, listening attentively to washing machines - the world is populated by all kinds of intelligence - mammalian intelligence alone must have great range - thousands of forms kin to ours - lets be less provincial about ourselves - we don’t know the effects which ripple from our actions –

Natural selection is not random, nor natural - a discordian is prohibited from believing what he reads - intermedian fortean principle - reality is a changing condition - a phenomena is more or less important than its interpretation - eccentric manners of dedicated amateurs - if you can do mechanically what is presently done electronically, that's steampunk - there is true joy in overly complicated mechanism - catastrophic genesis, luxurious despair, discovery in paralysis --- time is an illusion, lunch time, doubly so - that's the moral authority these young men have - most of these people are not ready to be unplugged - its hard to be a rebel, cuz you're always working with the resistance – my wrath is very comfy - wherever you are we’re already there -

College de pataphysique - the white shadow - quarum for a secret society is one - only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible - the cautionary whale, like any good pathogen, has found itself a carrier, in state-of-the-art urban pacification - a dutch dating service for the police state – very low entropy systems - bigger on the inside - risk benefit analyses: change your habits - the only freedom you have is freedom to buy - hiphopricy of our democracy - win win crapshoot for all involved - light up the darkness - science has the greatest adventure stories - there is no history, only competing fictions with varying degrees of plausibility - preoccupied with trivial matters, obsessional behaviours, irrational trivial distractions inhibiting clear cognition, impeding synaptic linkage - aggressive agitation,microwave radiation-borne destabilization of neurotransmission, this spiral degenesis rots thought and self and spirit - how happy we are to ride the carousel of life, the spinning wheels of fate fortune and destiny - a slave gives birth to slaves - consider the price of vengeance and freedom - a slave knows her place, and has a value - a good master cares for his property - beyond visual range combat - its pretty metal that he's being eaten by wolves - i teach sundayschool, motherfucker - week of dogfights, courts marshall, rough draughts - transmission vector - illustrative myths, collective hallucinations - marduk the sun god, slayer of tiamat who lives within me - - science history culture nature - marduk rules, he totally does - in diversifying my meat-portfolio, i am not constrained by data - serenity is achieved by those who embrace it - knowing without knowing how you know - i have total cognizance of every synapse in my cerebral cortex - millions of unemployed puppeteers - under martian law, doctors and other wizards are forbidden - i need silence to mind meld with the intertubes - biomass manipulated by an intelligent evolutionary process - robomonkey! more science! - forcing change into stalemated systems

What happens when you're trapped inside a game? when only the devil knows the rules and all you can do is improvise until suddenly everything ends... i remember now... there was only one way to verify my damning suspicions... i did what i always do... i locked myself in my room and built one of my own... and there you were Victor, hiding behind the curtains of existence itself - for three billion years i have waited for you, while you were in the crown, the white hot room - like a perfect emotional molecule turning in mathematical space --gestural graphemes scintillating high intentionality - - reason consists of always seeing things as they are - every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do – we can all be guilty sometimes of mistaking our ideas for things - gatekeeper of misinformation - the idea of the monster is more real than the monster itself - an overly extended metaphor, in going beyond mere ornamentation of the original aspect has taken a life of its own - assumptions based on assumptions, belief systems or rhetoric run amok - two degrees of separation from reality - metaphorical similarity used as a concrete on which to base itself - worlds built on fear and mistaken assumption - self-portrait ingested by my tools - atavism - There is nothing in life to be feared, only to be understood – high achievement, high intelligence - a reemergence of ancestral genetic traits – reptilian brain’s mercurial skill for generating frightening hypotheses, with complete lack of empathy – do not embrace negativity, instead a philosophy of wisdom, compassion - a plaisir a voire tes plaisirs – a strange truly disconnected feeling – there’s nothing on the line and no threat – doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is in itself a form of violence – unarmed truth and unconditional love - it’s not if you can, it’s do ya? - the master of all life has appointed this place as the place to light our fires – and here, the first sign of extinction - exalted supreme brotherhood of neptune, release the kracken!

alchemists saw the arrival of the paraclete/holyghost as equivalent to the resurrection of nature through the Great Work – we practice a ruthless realism - i am what i am becoming - everything that happens in nature, happens in reality - it is better to be technical than mystical- creation is essentially dead from a thermal perspective - man against man, man against nature, man against himself - will to live is the only battle you have, on a field of pure consciousness and effort – come’on cuddlefish! everyone fights! a wildly captivating state, mania leaves cocaine in the dust - gravity in higher dimensions, eventually to be burned up in a terribly destructive orbit - higher order explains alot of stuff, important for mankind

ellegua appears a trickster child young and virile, horned and ithyphallic - legba is sometimes an old man with a crutch or cane, sprinkling water, smoking a pipe, wearing a broad rimmed straw hat - gatekeeper between worlds of the living and the mysterious - legba acts as intermediary between iwa and humanity - opens the road - taught mankind how to use the oracles and how to interpret them - gives or denies permisson to speak with the spirits and is believed to speak all human languages - always the first and last spirit invoked, opens and closes the doorway - he is the great elocution, the voice of god - legba facilitates communication, speech and understanding – lord of letters and learning, lord of categories, of beginnings, of obstacles, patron of arts and sciences, deva of intellect, wisdom, cleverness - ganesha is popularly worshipped as a remover of obstacles, he also places obstacles in the path of those who need to be checked -- his dharma, is to place and remove difficuly - it is his particular territory, the reason for his creation --- obstacle creator, obstacle averter , thus bearing both negative and positive aspect - invoked as patron of letters during writing sessions - initiatory vector invoking the ultimate ancestors, half-snake half-human replicators - repairers of the heavens - maintaining the walls and pillars of the sky - regenerating humans after great calamity - in form of dragons they carve out the rivers, and drain the floods, protecting against dangers of water - culverts, rivers covered over, subeterranean waterways, aquifer basilicas - svartalfaheim, underworld domain of the dark elves - one nation underground

i have my black periods, but they do not have me - i am pregnant, my mind implanted with alien thoughts - i can't heal despair, i only tolerate it - then teach me? Madman heal thyself - healing is unburdening - allowing the patient to ask for help openly - unconscious desires expressed in daylight and integrated - not liberation, but integration - it is my task to make you feel comfort less - a life without care or danger - deny it, and you win for yourself the freedom to be hungry, homeless, hurt - as you were, so shall you be - as this fallen world is, so are ye - apogee - vector eventual - dimensions variable - artistic ventures are worthy investments? - you never know when i'm gonna drop some pearls - an insect whose larvae eat the thoughts of the parent-host - older than life, older than the oldest thing, I AM, undying beast - champion of genetic diversity - yes its a dirty job but somebody's gotta make a conscious decision to do it - be the man/worm you want to be until the day you die - it is our duty to be as artificial as possible - I ONLY DO IMPRESSIONS - improvisateur – if you only do something once, it's always your personal best - you should always do your best, otherwise they won't know how to handicap you …

lose confidence, because its the right thing to do --- you're not just aimlessly drifting through life for yourself, you're doing it for every man in America --- sonar mapping the event-cloud of unknowing, there is only the vibration of the machinery - modern artists reverse engineered the brain, discovering laws of seeing in order to captivate the eye – without any effort, they accomplish what they set out to do - you were always here, waiting for yourself to arrive - you're there, you are a where - the shortest arc is not always swiftest - it moves everything with zero effort –seek your own salvation with grave diligence – the purpose of science is to find patterns and regularity in nature - what happens when artists attempt to conduct science is that everything immediately becomes funny - categorically wrong in both approach and technique - every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing the analogous, and thus an outline for a generative methodology - machines built to do one perfect thing, - as i being poor have only my dreams - to sever the circular continuity of this great society - just a clock ticking - it's not the law that is important, it is our obedience to it - low-entropy instruments against resistance to seek and eradicate competition - - the logic of emergent process is that when you let it loose it’s not just mayhem- overcoming your own natural human desire not to get hurt -- screwups are nature's way of saying 'i'm bored' –

possibly i should confess a note of intention : for the opening of some shamanic communication interstice, transpersonal interface, an interregnum to clear the way for imagination to leak out sideways, trusting the magical idea of drawing toward an intersection - colliding a stochastic ideographic process into coincidence with the ridges and ripples of an imaginary morphogenetic field -- these characters represent something of what walked through that door – pattern-echoes of future ancestors - only partially intentional materializations of id-formation - persistence of vision, change blindness, attune, because it is - disaggregate cooling low entropy - we live in a fractal universe - this allows us to make inferences about new objects using metaphor and metonymy, and actually there’s a chance that those inferences are correct - thermodynamic ice from fire – nature is crooked - the paranoid method is a response to chaos - a way of ordering, giving a shape and significance to confusion - only the method itself is a sinister deity – synarchy, the conspiratorial anti-anarchy, is both a form of psychosis and an alternative deity, delirium of interpretive association bearing an arbitrary systematic structure

"The psychology of the orgiastic as an overflowing feeling of life and strength, where even pain still has the effect of a stimulus, gave me the key to the concept of tragic feeling, which had been misunderstood both by Aristotle and even more by modern pessimists. Tragedy is so far from being a proof of the pessimism (in Schopenhauer's sense) of the Greeks that it may, on the contrary, be considered a decisive rebuttal and counterexample. Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and most painful episodes, the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustible vitality even as it witnesses the destruction of its greatest heroes — that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I guessed to be the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet. Not in order to be liberated from terror and pity, not in order to purge oneself of a dangerous affect by its vehement discharge — which is how Aristotle understood tragedy — but in order to celebrate oneself the eternal joy of becoming, beyond all terror and pity — that tragic joy included even joy in destruction" - Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols, What I Owe to the Ancients, 5:

Praise life, remain life affirming - we need to learn from the world itself, be realist - we don't create the world with our classifications - - form does not need human signifiers - it is capable of self-organization - idealist projections excise signifiers from an amorphous flow - non-human expressivity exists in nature - matter is morphogenetically pregnant - the world doesn't need us to be born - the dream persists whether or not we dream it, because of the properties of the material of which it is made - and in that we share this property with everything else that exists – boundless enthusiasm for creativity and ideas –every form of morphogenesis is a source of inspiration - we're plural, we have lots of selves - when we're writing, we're exaggerating one of those selves - the one fiction in non-fiction is the first person - that's not you - try to remain more interested in questions than answers - – in our lives it is known we may love new people while continuing to love the old – fucking is liberty in essence - as onanism substitutes for coitus, freedom regresses - at the heart of adult sex, freedom exults - the human body is meant to be shared - it's the other side of the mirror - it reclaims from the banalities and servitudes, an inviolate space of possibilities - where it is lived freely, love and its’ sexual fulfillment emancipate the human spirit and bring it home to the enigma of the human body, the soft but meteoric laughter of liberty herself - the imperatives of libido unfold beyond good and evil, as does breath and the need for nourishment - Every creature delivers on its sexual needs - We learn to restrain these impulses - All this deception - gas pedal or brake pedal - A huge clutch, - If you can find it, grind it - we have rehabilitated another group of the party's enemies - vote your conscience –

toastmasters-night at the empire-freehouse - Just one man to dismantle history? what was it like before the war? - Obviously god is a woman - Thou shall not commit adultery? no dude is ever gonna dream that up - men are monogamous if it means sleeping with everybody only once - - when did we acquire testes? you realize using that as an excuse only makes you more guilty - heresy and high treason - i had no idea you enjoyed 'the lifestyle' - a plague of snakes to punish your insolence, gravitational altitude readjustment preceeding total skeletal reorganization - i want the pain that's how i learn - pain is how I evolve from the guilt, there's wisdom, clarity there - when you're in pain that’s how you uncover what you really are, when you focus to the point of a knife - i see an angel blazing with the light of god - you will only fail when you stop trying - so passionate, so savage - such a man would be magnificent - you do it because your god compels you - love your faults, embrace them - if god embraces them then how can they be faults - the truth is that we're all perfect just as we are - god suffers from a multiple personality disorder, and each of us is one of god’s unintegrated personalities - Magic is the therapy, the theatre of operations in which reintegration is achieved – we are the species that grows beyond our limitations, given the freedom to take shape - it is only in the concept of ‘limit’ that the ‘boundless’ takes form -- not playing to win, but playing to keep playing - potential to realize true difference in an infinite game – suboptimal and recursive by nature - a way of playing the game of playing all the games - technology is the medium by which we play the game of finding out who we are and what is our purpose - find the place where there is the least resistance to new ideas - Home colleging, collaging - paradoxical self-referential recursive pointing back on themselves – circular reverse causality, self-ordering echo-activity … leave us alone, we’re on it –

in the collection of personas i call my self, memory occurs - if there's a unity that makes them all me, i don't know what it is - somedays, eyes open, i can enjoy them all - - the primary datum is experience - circles of science, biomimetic construct -–– teach and practice research - a genre of science fiction that shows science itself to be a fiction - narcotic freefall when something is worded just right - the audacity of hopelessness - shadow is your cheapest prop - 90% of the visual field is not being processed -- We see things no as they are but as we are – most of what we see is what we thought before we looked – the world is not as it seems – waking dreams when you get a jaw drop, you can inform, you have a brain in full receptive mode – nostalgic for right now - We are the species that goes beyond our limitations, given the freedom to take shape – a bullet in the chamber – I appreciate your obedience - There are things in this world which you do not understand and yet which are true – you are a scientist, you must know this – disbelief is suspended for seven minutes - abandon everything you’ve always stood for to go searching for your missing bulge-eyed dragon with the help of a mysterious green witch, distilled elf marrow, and instinctive desire for questioning - … climbing falling rolling jumping – adventures from which he can never return to give this knowledge to the world - a complete waste of time - delta state - Dieties suffer from multiple personality disorder, and each of us is one of some god’s unintegrated personalities. Magic is the therapy by which reintegration is achieved – ideas are more valuable than money - To do a needed work short changes art, it is extremely important that art be unjustifiable – personal nobility, entitlement to do as you think is right – bonus points for chewing through your muzzle and speaking your mind – it is only in the notion of the ‘limit’ that the boundless takes form –planet earth seems determined to challenge our imagination – gaia is herself a ‘pataphysical systems assemblage artist

The correct religion is – Shinto – a lot of people talk about the earth, but how many actually penetrate it – Cacelians – legless rainforest amphibians, nesting in tortoise burrows – kami, elemental spirits ascribed to anything unusual or fascinating – modifying existing stones, ice age megaliths – geomantic morphologies – fractal-entendres - fierce green – mille feuilles of ideas – long-axis stereo optics - Deep water sounding, topography, tomography – cyborg sinophore – robotic biopolymers - spinster cogwerks, dimensions variable– inner space center – take control of your robotic deep submersible – Arias for anthropomorphs, gillnetting the Pleroma for religious replicators – Bifrost – the tremulous way – it is the nature of the mind to separate from the body and wander alone --- like no experience in your upbringing --- a more engaged and literate lie/life - the mythical overlay is so enormous and all revisionist - is the voyage worth the risk? if it is, let the lines go and sail free - a boat is the needle of the compass, the compass being the rest of the universe - the navigator pulls islands up out of the sea - A or V, you gotta have both, this is theatre – thinking is drawing the parallels back to you - building excitement - pull yerself together and come get drunk with us --- challenging our minds in focused ways, leaving comfort zones - choose your thoughts carefully - increasing capacity to lead a joyful life - continually elaborating ourselves, new skill acquisition, harnessing visual motor rehearsal, when you visualize you materialize - potential for positive plasticity - malleability is also volatile - normally we can’t see faeriefolk – they generate a cloaking field, an aura of glamour –- the truce, men would keep to the cities and magical beings to the forest, is broken –your body’s a temple? Only if you’re religious, mine’s an amusement park - which holocaust should be chosen – even one dies, and the world is poorer - we kill one to save a thousand, endanger millions more –– elemental forest gods, givers of life and the destroyers - let this remind you of why you once feared the dark

I think because others speak– individual and mutual responsibility – fists in the air in the land of hiphoprisy –others of the sub-par cresche – those who got devolved again – a wound that will never heal – so long as we keep picking it – if I die today that’s the man I’ll be – individual and mutual responsibility – holy shitballs I’m feelin’ it – every time Barak speaks an angel has an orgasm – we’re cylons, and we have been from the start – he speaks for both sides cuz he’s a purple, a Plutocrat – in time we begin to look and act like our tools – – collections agents - tax credits for investing in art - upcycle assembly programme supply based resource economics - ‘pata-tech-kno/gno-logy - psychosymbioschemas of mass diversion– lost our ability to concentrate, to stay focused - jumping from point to point of information – inability to read deeply, think broadly, contemplate – at home with a superficial relationship to information – Paradoxical self-generating infinite recursivity, self-referential pointing back to themselves – circular causality with the property of self-assembly -– give it up, pick your battles – life is 90% maintenance - incrementally increase the increase - Embroiled in circular causality, a nice docile population enthralls itself - echo-active thought-forms, super-mind captive in it’s own fatal gravity well –-– not playing to win, but playing to keep playing – recursive nature, infinite game – a way of playing the game of playing all games - To have a robot do something without me controlling it - a substance in which distinction between organic and inorganic is indiscernable, and the emergence of life undecidable - near-living - technology is the medium in which we make sport of finding out who we are and what is our purpose – potential to realize true difference

The only limits are the ones we place on ourselves -– arrive in the place of least resistence to new ideas – it is our decisions which alter our lives – your pain is leading you down the path of desire – the craft of devil’s advocate – the goof of all time, god likes to watch, he’s a prankster – he set the laws in opposition– glamour is the oldest form of magic – your vanity is justified, it’s you, you’re a star – true magic is neither black nor white it is both, as nature is - what you give out you get back times three – as i will it, so shall it be - stand up and stand together - I invoke thee, rise – the struggle of for and against is one of the mind’s greatest diseases – find something more important than you are – all potentials are realized – all possible worlds exist - Reduce our country’s reliance on foreign art -– You can’t take away what people already have –living the change as your way – keep asking these questions, if you don’t want to cooperate with the marketplace, you won’t be allowed to survive – not having faith is a luxury, in difficult times it was forgivable to make up myths and stories, with liberty and justice for all– there is a time when panic is the appropriate response–– good hunting, standby for combat jump - life is appalling and laughter is calling –

Memes - he started it, but the idea belongs to all of us now – he’s not responsible for what it means to me – sagacity, being able to link together the seemingly innocuous to come to valuable conclusions –get good – focus – push – through shyness and self-doubt, serve the value of sharing with others – gastrognomies of passionate workafrolics –– chance favours the prepared mind – an open attention is required on the part of the scientist to ‘detect the importance of information revealed accidentally man will become better when you show him what he is like – love consists in overestimating the differences of one wo/man over another – informed consent is the bedrock of democracy – uninformed [uniformed] consent is worth nothing – you’re promised fifteen minutes of fame, what they don’t tell you is twelve of those mintues are a rectal exam – I am the most humble person, I’m a pro at it – I wanna be just like you – tongues interconnected by song, exchanging knowledge – uni-verse – we are all of one mind – we’re small but we don’t feel weak - saying things that you know to be true – we’re alive! – I love the future! – he’s gone off the reservation – trackers, collectors – the imagined nations - we will turn you into us –– soon now – interdimensional beings in point of fact – like a broom to their footprints – into the space between spaces – their treasure was knowledge – somewhere your grandpa is laughing – how much of human life is lost in watching – Break down so you can build up – snakes and ladders –solve et coagula – I ching alchemy –– the wise stay alert, creative, and in worried contemplation – waitingfor the moment when they can change the things that make their lives unlivable –a great mystery come to our mortal aid –

playing god? We’re not playing– everyone who had a talent for it lived happily ever after –one touch of nature makes the whole world ken – it is no measure of health to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society - corporate plutocracy, scarcity – unarmed truth and unconditional love – efficiency sustainability abundance – enemies of profit – instinct? There is no human nature, only human behavior – dominion is given to spirits who take a spiritual body – no spirit without a body has the right to control intelligent management of resources– our true divinity is in our powers of creativity, which can catalyze synergetic symbiotic emergence – the signal coming from our true empirical oneness – victims of our own imperfect misunderstandings – to understand is to transform what is a crisis of consciousness – put your trust in allah, but tie up your camel… six more weeks of propaganda – watch all the commercials or you’re stealing

ELF RAGE – GNOM-VAR – sidelog

I fear the dark cloud of the sith shrouds us all -Like it or not, war encourages technical growth exponentially - I regret that I have but one life to give - I want more lives – I’m not yet worthy to drink your blood –- violence might be an expression of creativity – ultimate extension of the existential man – do not yield, do not flinch, stand up, look straight in it’s eyes and kill - There’s no chin beneath Chuck Norris’s beard, only another fist – so shall they sample my blade – we’ll never submit, they will – not praising service but demanding it - - No mercy no prisoners no surrender - safer more secure freedoms – less freedom to, more freedom from… bigotry, oppression , unprovoked assault, unnecessary fatality, extremes of cold and heat – vanquish the unpardonable enemies of hateful inequity – right makes might – for freedom, some of our best men must pay with their lives – war is awful business – I’m gonna send you to out on a suicide mission son, it’s gonna hurt for a hot minute, I’m not gonna lie to you about that – - you’re perfectly healthy, but if you’re still hesitant about medicating yourself preemptively… - what was it like before the war? how our lives have changed … plight of the industrialized working class on this superhighway strip-mall prison planet – The secret lives of married men - sophisticated rationalizations for being complete assholes - double dealing, it’s very human eh? You didn’t find that? - Information is all I got - I don’t trust anyone right now - I got to worry about protecting myself - to speak publicly is not for the weak of heart – live by the pen, die by the sword –- i want you to get cancer, what you're doing here is fucked - of course i speak english just not to you suckah

I am the elected official - For every action I have a superior and opposite reaction – I always give 110% so the way I see it I deserve a 10% refund - nothing is more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash – people can be made to enjoy their servitude by emulating their oppressors – infernal machines, copycats without original - creating/sustaining the new faith - - offered enough scientific rationales for tyranny, eagerly orchestrate chemical lobotomies for friends and family - grave disorders organized brilliantly -- one party system with two factions -- combining methods of terror with absolute allegiance - irreputable dominance with predatory disdain for the underclass ---- the state remains the number one cause of unnatural death – but we should remain courteous - attitude of gratitude - the art of surrender is irrepressible in a nice docile population - ‘change your inner conversation with money’ - white crime bullpucky jibberjabber fucktards - who know better but do anyways - we erased over the federal copyright warnings – give the people what they want - stockholders of our own happiness -- incrementally increase the increase -- I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the minds of men - that’s all you gotta do - Folkvangr or Valhalla, we all fight for invincible love - Very french existential reaction, very selfish, very male – the high style outsider– trickery and vice, that’s painting – it’s like committing a crime – to see somebody that strong be that weak - you will outlive your talent and you will die alone – – nothing but a name, the only return on all that work –

the criminal ambition to govern over the lives of other people should be weighted among our highest crimes, but instead it is the function of lawmakers to render all citizens subject to judgment, equally submissive before the intrinsically superior wisdom of state officials --- no man is less perfect than a likely candidate for office -- without reservation or evasion? it's part of the territory – a universal correspondence - the system is perfect, the people who run it aren't - avaricious manipulative duplicitous supremacists wielding an arrogant belligerent contempt over all living things - pythagorean specialists in disinformation and interrogation - men of few words who say them over and over –isn’t it hard to watch? then don't watch --- but i think your mind can handle some considerable boggling --- there are limits to our realism - hanging onto hope in the most vainly irrational ways - against the most hopeless circumstances -- cold speed, agility, and sudden physical injury – I used to make fun of bloggers, but he’s a nice guy and he doesn’t buy it – don’t move, this is funny, watch… saturn’s about to devour his children… again…

Synathropic species – crows, rats, roaches –I agonize over it all the time – agent of intolerance, he’ll stand there until the last reporter sits down – mouthing infectious repetitive sloganeering – do what you have to do in each moment in order to survive and keep going - - no surrender, n- o admission, no concession, no confession forced by political necessity - god’s madmen - more than anything, embarrassment – let’s just make sure we’re on the field in the fourth quarter – we’re all prisoners of war now – POW-POV – underground is a state of information control – a parallel universe – you are not here, invisible – weather bureau – if you didn’t have to know you didn’t know and didn’t ask –--a culture and society of resistance, total opposition to mind control, mania, and genocide – freedom to be the farthest out people we can be – leftist organizations, when they reach this point of irrelevancy, generally turn on themselves - psychic stress and upheaval in the anti-war movement, developed a loss of clarity about ideals – in the 1970s, many were in retreat – he’s 30 years old, too old to be a revolutionary – holding my nose and going through with the surrender –violence doesn’t work - all violence which is not sanctioned by the government is either criminal or mentall ill –-they wanted to get rid of envy, covetousness, but what did you give up in return? the will to try, and the faith to believe it possible– they were forced to be outlaws by the way the system is run and we think they’re great

it is the duty of just men to disobey unjust laws -- all power to the oligarchic self-elect - religion has no monopoly on divine self-righteousness - fortune rewards the bold - - it’s good to be the Man – this is the America we love – a real disappointment to racists everywhere – as if the entire world had won the superbowl – handing us a navy, nuclear arsenal, keys to fort knox, that feels about right for 400 years of slavery and oppression –the truth ain’t sexy – defiantly, he believed in himself - doing something really well is not having to do it all –delegate until you’re doing nothing, then you have plausible deniability - the governance had become a stealth party –appeals to the common man while gives benefits only to the ultra rich – simple and scary – dancin’ as fast as he could – hey, i've got tons of plans, you don't see any of them getting done do you? - chairman of the most evil campaign – get inside the head of your enemy – now that maxim was working on him – life gets even with you in the end – I want to believe that canada’s intentions are noble – if you have a strong force you have to exercise it - it’s prohibitively expensive if you don’t use it – a strong attack eliminates the need for defense – they kill so that we may live - the simulation revealed, the transparency of the illusion is in tatters - thoughts lie, a lot –hiding in plain sight –never ask for anything directly – born into positions of privilege against which they rebel into mediocrity – both developed and uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with the minimum of mental exertion – he’d been licking himself a long time and it was kind of a relief when he was put down, I think – hatching, matching and dispatching – sperm to the worm – wars mark armies for generations - glorified suicide missions, the air observers, Vimy was the first electronic battlefield - we all end up in the sand – don’t worry, I won’t say anything until it’s too late – we fought them tooth and nail - biting tongue, chewing nails

informed but not inundated -- converting information’s negative charge into positive energy - there's no energy crisis, there's a crisis of imagination - no governments, no bands, just people - there's more than enough - there is a lie in the human mind regarding lack - stinginess becomes your experience – a green bubble where a lot of people will lose even more money evenly, but we’ll be left with this incredible infrastructure – the methods of science, the aims of religion - return of the titans, giants, great pharaohs – faith-based economics, fully integrated police state advertising new invisible invincible monsters - I didn’t think you’d miss what you didn’t remember – the very life’s-breath of empire - if it’s not broke, fix it until it is – all power to the people – Muddleheads and scatterbrains –ugliest possible expression of the zeitgeist – when you feel that you have right on your side, you can do some horrific things – I cherished my hate as a badge of moral superiority – there are no innocents in nations waging wars of aggression – the most horrific hit the US had felt on its soil – ordinary life was dispensible, they joined that tradition – tribal warriors of prison populations – we didn’t do it but we dug it – we’d thought it impossible to defy the FBI – We are celebrities in a culture that values sameness – we await the malevolence – saturn devouring his children - it's not Gaian all the time, sometimes organisms produce variants that kill themselves - the brain is a really expensive organ to run, and not always culturally appropriate - there’s a police for everything - not always correct but never in doubt - a trophy hunter on safari wherever there's conflict - you can't see the eyes of the demon until he comes a'callin'

sublime comfort in deep dejection – toroidal cycle of narcissistic selfishness - self-soothing, self-loathing, self-absorbed autistic loop - from autodidact to autocrat to autocide - mind forged manacles, custom and habit, duty and obedience - mystical bridging of the symbolic and the real, of the label and the thing - the animated map - against order, unity, harmony, rationality - hardly a joyous embrace of life's attendant chaos - imagination compels great art - spunk mirth joy achievement! - instinctive libertarians who seek freedom from the institutions which contain them - incurable means curable from within - what you resist, persists - size is nothing - the lore of attrition - diminishing returns - clouds of splendid ideas reveal unspun marvels to me - born free but everywhere in chains - there's nothing big oil couldn't do, if only they had a some cash - the devil's on his own side, period, and there's always a catch - to not multiply entities beyond necessity… pfahph…

as a species, we're a disaster - if i were still building bridges i'd have jumped off one by now -- i too am an underground loser -- lexicon artist - wordsalad glyptodont - enthralled in rapt immersion - tunneling tortoise of paranoiac methodologies, intensifying interrogative insularity -- creativity takes on an aspect of compulsion – a familiar resentment, begrudged the sustenance of our creative solitude - - it was all that sustained us, and thus was all-consuming - - as simple as things can be, but no less - from their example, i learned quickly to feed myself– am I the kind of person a woman could love? – you deserve a man, not a ball of neurotic guilt - single-minded pursuit of solitary interests - vicious, viscous circle - the more gratification we found in our geniuses, the more isolated we grew - absorbed in our separate pursuits - we started a staring contest ,,,

THE SECRET - [unlawful compression] laws of attraction, whatever is going on in your mind, is attracted to you - you become and attract what you think of most - thoughts become things - when you focus with passion, measurable frequencies emit - prolonged chronic feelings are our guidance system, a feedback mechanism for [mis]correcting alignment - whatever you are feeling is exactly what is in process of becoming - a shifting of emotion will change your day - mood attracts circumstance - what you think, feel, manifest are always a match, no exception - all undone by a shift in awareness - how bad do you want change? - guide your thoughts based on what you feel, you will know that you are the creator of your own reality – in the creative process, there are no limit to the wishes - want what you truly want - you will attract the way - turn fantasy into fact, have it now - the universe likes speed - don't delay - when the nudge is there, act - pay attention to what you are attracted to, as you hold images they are attracted to you - it does this by law, effortlessly - size is nothing in the universe - if you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body - always and only dwell upon the end result – resolving that 'how' is the way of the universe - it always knows the shortest fastest way - habituate the process - feel exhilarated - it is magical! - imagination is everything --- whatever a man can conceive, he can achieve - life is meant to be abundant - wealth is a mindset - change your inner conversation with money - money comes easily and frequently, wellbeing abounds - we are creators - concentrate on what you're making - when you say NO, attraction brings it to you anyway - if you have this knowledge, you have to claim it - orient yourself to the best part of people around you - its all you - the human mind is the biggest factor in healing, righting the body's 'at-ease' – a body does what it does, rebuilds itself - the self-healing immune system can be coached to repair itself - happier thoughts lead to healthier biochemistry - you can change your life and you can heal yourself - using your mind you can put things back together again - living in a conditional way, man becomes what he thinks about -- every single 'i'm not' is a creation - as they push against the unwanted, they make more of it - be pro-something if you're anti-whatever - become still, take your attention away from the irritant - when the voice and vision inside become more clear and loud than the opinions on the outside, you've mastered the art - the future expands, the old disappears - you are the management of your own creation, harmony and happiness - another way that the universe becomes conscious of itself - break yourself free from hereditary patterns - you are an energy field empowering and sharing with others, moving in and through form, extensions of one vibrating continuum - you are the image and likeness of god - the infinite field of unfolding potentials and possibilities - all power is within and therefore under our control - we are unlimited - your purpose is what you say it is, and none will stand in judgement - if it's fun, i'll do it - my primary aim is to experience joy, love, freedom - constantly putting myself in that state - anything that makes you feel good will draw more of that into your life - don't fuck with the will of the people - enjoy life with us, it's a magnificent trip - unbounded potential, all the avatars have understood this - the more you see it, the more you'll understand - you are a magnificent creator - go forth - most of your time will be spent collecting data while you decide what it is that you want - the moment you begin to think properly, it will be there to sustain and guide you - that i know for sure - feel good - follow your bliss -- best words fallen from a human tongue

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SOLVE ET COAGULA
VECTOR EVENTUAL

Health, Long Life, Prosperity

Nov 07 – Dec 08
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TEXT by S.Calvert

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