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@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ \def\drawFslash{\bp{-\wd0} \bp{-\dp0} m 0 \bp{\ht0} l } % forward slash \def\drawBslash{\bp{-\wd0} \bp{\ht0} m 0 \bp{-\dp0} l } % backward slash \def\drawHline {\bp{-\wd0} \bp{.5ex} m 0 \bp{.5ex} l } % horizontal line -\def\cancelparams{1 0 0 RG 1 J .6 w} % color RG linetype J linewidth w +\def\cancelparams{0 0 0 RG 1 J .6 w} % color RG linetype J linewidth w % --------- % --- "parts" as higher sections @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ % --- +\fontfam[Latin Modern] \fontfam[Pagella] \typosize[11/13] \def\headtitle{Blueprint for a Higher Civilization} diff --git a/behold_metatron.otx b/behold_metatron.otx index e10608d..af0f4b0 100644 --- a/behold_metatron.otx +++ b/behold_metatron.otx @@ -1,17 +1,11 @@ \input sal.otx \input aux.otx -\margins/2 fold (0.65,0.5,0.6,0.7)in -\footlinedist=12pt + +\novellalayout \def\pbrk{\vskip 2em} \blankstyle -% -- the amazon description for 'behold metatron', which is baffling and amazing -{\narrower\noindent Brooklyn Sol Yurick \& Anticipation of the Night A fire sale at Bear Stearns. Markets in turmoil. Sub-prime disasters. IRAs and TDAs drained overnight. Crises of modern times but forseen, at least in its potentiality and broadest strokes, by Brooklyn author Sol Yurick. I remember reading \booktitle{Behold Metatron, the Recording Angel}, an essay by Brooklyn author Sol Yurick, published by Autonomedia (Foreign Agents Press) back in 1985. I think I picked up my copy in Park Slope's Community Books, back in the day. Yurick also is the author of \booktitle{The Warriors}, made into a classic, apocalyptic gang film, as well as the excellent novels \booktitle{Fertig}, \booktitle{The Bag}, \booktitle{Someone Just Like You}, \booktitle{Richard A.} and \booktitle{Confession,} and other articles and essays. \booktitle{Behold Metatron} is heavy stuff, relentlessly visionary, the material problem seen through a lens of advanced capitalism and electronic philosophy. Picture \journaltitle{Wired Magazine} crossed with \journaltitle{Fortune Magazine} but edited by William Blake. Metaphysics, economics, art and intellect of an high order, coalescing into an interpretation of an emerging electronic universe. Forget Al Gore\fnote{In a March 9, 1999, interview with CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Al Gore was discussing his history as a senator who extensively supported internet development. A sentence said by Gore in the interview, \dq{I took the initiative in creating the Internet,} became a widespread meme around Y2K. The joke was that Gore claimed to have invented the internet. --- Salitter Workings Editor}, perhaps Mr. Yurick conceptualized, if not anticipated, the Internet, globalization, the flow of information and data across galaxies of cable and wireless realms, sometimes directed, sometimes chaotic, but always having impact. Mr. Yurick \dq{\ld\ The old philosopher's stone could convert base metals into gold. Now humans, real estate, social relations are converted into electronic signs carried in an electronic plasma. the dream of magical control has never been exorcised. Perhaps, after all, modern capitalism is a great factory for the production of angels.} In 1988, the journal \journaltitle{Social Text} published Mr. Yurick's \booktitle{The Destiny Algorithm} which appeared to further mine the cybernetic\slash human nexus. Globalization and the 'net got its philosophic underprinnings where else, Brooklyn NY.} -\Qs{the Amazon.com description for \booktitle{Metatron}\fnote{sic} by Sol Yurick.} - -\break - % -- title page { \raggedright @@ -22,21 +16,56 @@ Sol Yurick \par \break % -- colophon -{\tt\raggedright -FOREIGN AGENTS SERIES \nl -Semiotext(e) +{\LMfonts\ttset\rm \raggedright\parindent=0pt\parskip=0pt + +FOREIGN AGENTS SERIES \hfill All rights reserved. + +Semiotext(e) \hfill Printed in the United States + +© 1985 Sol Yurick \hfill (of America.) + +Publication funded \hfill \cancel/{in part by the New York} + +{\ttset\it by generous friends} \hfill \cancel/{State Council on the Arts.} + +{\ttset\it thank you} \hfill Semiotext(e), Inc. + +{\ttset\it thank you} \hfill 522 Philosophy Hall + +{\ttset\it thank you} \hfill Columbia University + +\hfill New York City, N.Y. 10027 U.S.A. + +\vfill +{\ttset\it +good lord \hfill it's cold -© 1985 Sol Yurick \nl -All rights reserved. \nl -Printed in the United States of America. \nl -Publication funded in part by the New York \nl -State Council on the Arts. \nl +sweatshirt and two pairs of socks \hfill while typesetting -Semiotext(e), Inc.\nl +and \hfill tbh \hfill while sleeping + +cruising towards \hfill affording heat + +this text \hfill has been \hfill additionally edited + +by \hfill Salitter \hfill Committee + +thank you \hfill Ryan O'Conner \hfill for double checking + +december 2024 + +providence, ri \hfill madrid, spain + +\ul{https://salitter.org} \hfill @salitters + +\hfill (instagram ) + +\vfill +\hfill\picw=3in\inspic{img/sal.png}\hfill +\vfill + +} -522 Philosophy Hall \nl -Columbia University \nl -New York City, N.Y. 10027 U.S.A. } \break @@ -73,4 +102,11 @@ To suppose that any author of fiction, poetry or discursive writing works alone \input ch14.otx \input ch15.otx +\break + +% -- the amazon description for 'behold metatron', which is baffling and amazing +{\narrower\noindent\typoscale[900/] Brooklyn Sol Yurick \& Anticipation of the Night A fire sale at Bear Stearns. Markets in turmoil. Sub-prime disasters. IRAs and TDAs drained overnight. Crises of modern times but forseen, at least in its potentiality and broadest strokes, by Brooklyn author Sol Yurick. I remember reading \booktitle{Behold Metatron, the Recording Angel}, an essay by Brooklyn author Sol Yurick, published by Autonomedia (Foreign Agents Press) back in 1985. I think I picked up my copy in Park Slope's Community Books, back in the day. Yurick also is the author of \booktitle{The Warriors}, made into a classic, apocalyptic gang film, as well as the excellent novels \booktitle{Fertig}, \booktitle{The Bag}, \booktitle{Someone Just Like You}, \booktitle{Richard A.} and \booktitle{Confession,} and other articles and essays. \booktitle{Behold Metatron} is heavy stuff, relentlessly visionary, the material problem seen through a lens of advanced capitalism and electronic philosophy. Picture \journaltitle{Wired Magazine} crossed with \journaltitle{Fortune Magazine} but edited by William Blake. Metaphysics, economics, art and intellect of an high order, coalescing into an interpretation of an emerging electronic universe. Forget Al Gore,\fnote{In a March 9, 1999, interview with CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Al Gore was discussing his history as a senator who extensively supported internet development. A sentence said by Gore in the interview, \dq{I took the initiative in creating the Internet,} became a widespread meme around Y2K. The joke was that Gore claimed to have invented the internet. --- Salitter Workings Editor} perhaps Mr. Yurick conceptualized, if not anticipated, the Internet, globalization, the flow of information and data across galaxies of cable and wireless realms, sometimes directed, sometimes chaotic, but always having impact. Mr. Yurick \dq{\ld\ The old philosopher's stone could convert base metals into gold. Now humans, real estate, social relations are converted into electronic signs carried in an electronic plasma. the dream of magical control has never been exorcised. Perhaps, after all, modern capitalism is a great factory for the production of angels.} In 1988, the journal \journaltitle{Social Text} published Mr. Yurick's \booktitle{The Destiny Algorithm} which appeared to further mine the cybernetic\slash human nexus. Globalization and the 'net got its philosophic underprinnings where else, Brooklyn NY.} +\vskip 0.5em +\Qs{the Amazon.com description for \booktitle{Metatron}\fnote{sic} by Sol Yurick.} + \bye @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ If one could invent (or draw out of some infinite account) values created by populations yet to be born---fictional people, which might include robots and simulations---those populations have a real effect on our present. What \e{space} do they live in? If they're fictional, how can we feel their presence here and now? Or if they are far away, even in the future, how can we feel their impingement, as if they were next to us? They exert mysterious influences through myths and interest rates, like the gravitational perturbations coming at us from past and future, annunciating the presence of an unseen planet or star. We search for them. They can be found by indirect methods; relating population to space, converting the numbers of those-yet-to-suffer into space, time and people. This is done by the art of studying population pressures in the present, for new populations are being unleashed upon our planet, teleported to us, backward in time, emerging through the central processing units of financial institutions. -Segmented demographics\fnote{Studies of populations in abstracted, discontiguous home territories; stacked up, perceived, recorded, retrievable, quite as if they were in some mass memory; memorialized particle-clusters, when networked, make their territories contiguous while lack of communications-access makes the land of the poor quite separated} allow us to play new games with the location of populations, to move them from place to place, even into invented countries. For example the Nielsen rating's {\bf A} country, {\bf B} country, {\bf C} country.\fnote{There is a {\bf D} country but that is discounted. Dante also had an {\bf A}, {\bf B}, and {\bf C} country and, although he didn't write about it, a {\bf D} country; for Dante never wrote about the poor and the ordinary.} People in {\bf A} country can be scattered all over the world; they don't even have to live in proximity. +Segmented demographics\fnote{Studies of populations in abstracted, discontiguous home territories; stacked up, perceived, recorded, retrievable, quite as if they were in some mass memory; memorialized particle-clusters, when networked, make their territories contiguous while lack of communications-access makes the land of the poor quite separated.} allow us to play new games with the location of populations, to move them from place to place, even into invented countries. For example the Nielsen rating's {\bf A} country, {\bf B} country, {\bf C} country.\fnote{There is a {\bf D} country but that is discounted. Dante also had an {\bf A}, {\bf B}, and {\bf C} country and, although he didn't write about it, a {\bf D} country; for Dante never wrote about the poor and the ordinary.} People in {\bf A} country can be scattered all over the world; they don't even have to live in proximity. How were these populations put into these demographies? If we have totalled up real people---hungering, sweating, copulating---then we need real geography, at least at some point in time\ld\ perhaps in the past. With the advent of the need for targeted, reachable populations, demographic regions were invented, related, classified, archtypalized along buying\slash class\slash income\slash taste\slash interest\slash communication lines. We see continents dissolve into an archipelago.\fnote{Dante preferred to stack them in cones and concentric, high-velocity circles.} All nations have---at least as far as some of their populations who live in transnational space---dissolved. @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ \chap\nl -Beginning, perhaps, in the 17\textsuperscript{th} century, a few had embarked on a program of \dq{modernizing} society; shattering old categories and languages while inventing new ones. Leibniz, for instance, dreamed of a logical\slash mathematical-based universal language. One of the great agendas of the 18\textsuperscript{th} and 19\textsuperscript{th} centuries was a vast program of reclassification. There was also an attempt to trace back all modern languages to a primal Indo-European tongue. Past and present humans, societies, languages, plants and animals were arranged on a progressive scale.\fnote{And this was a continuation of the Renaissance, which had introjected the past, ancient Greece, into its program of liberation from medieval thinking} New theories and new disciplines emerged: economics, politics, psychology, sociology, history, the physical sciences, mythology, anthropology\ld\ all split off from philosophy. These new disciplines began to atomize and reconstruct, emphasizing quantification. They were partial fictions and suffered all the difficulties of translation; each developed their own jargons, hard and soft tools, aesthetics, formal modes of organizing the perception of the world, creating new mediating lenses between humans, and between humans and the natural world. In time, each one of these disciplines claimed to be a total world view\ld\ as did each mitotic sub-discipline. General systems theory and interdisciplinary studies began to emerge in the early twentieth century. Now, in the tail end of the 20\textsuperscript{th} century, they are remelted into the general category of information and communication theory. +Beginning, perhaps, in the 17\textsuperscript{th} century, a few had embarked on a program of \dq{modernizing} society; shattering old categories and languages while inventing new ones. Leibniz, for instance, dreamed of a logical\slash mathematical-based universal language. One of the great agendas of the 18\textsuperscript{th} and 19\textsuperscript{th} centuries was a vast program of reclassification. There was also an attempt to trace back all modern languages to a primal Indo-European tongue. Past and present humans, societies, languages, plants and animals were arranged on a progressive scale.\fnote{And this was a continuation of the Renaissance, which had introjected the past, ancient Greece, into its program of liberation from medieval thinking.} New theories and new disciplines emerged: economics, politics, psychology, sociology, history, the physical sciences, mythology, anthropology\ld\ all split off from philosophy. These new disciplines began to atomize and reconstruct, emphasizing quantification. They were partial fictions and suffered all the difficulties of translation; each developed their own jargons, hard and soft tools, aesthetics, formal modes of organizing the perception of the world, creating new mediating lenses between humans, and between humans and the natural world. In time, each one of these disciplines claimed to be a total world view\ld\ as did each mitotic sub-discipline. General systems theory and interdisciplinary studies began to emerge in the early twentieth century. Now, in the tail end of the 20\textsuperscript{th} century, they are remelted into the general category of information and communication theory. The information age required a vast new enterprise: an enormous translation or conversion project; a reduction of all disciplines into a kind of symbolic, quantified representation---a new universal language which would translate the languages, dialects and jargons of all languages and disciplines---appropriate to the basic circuit logics in the computers. Bit by bit the differences between disciplines and disparate bodies of knowledge (as well as living and non-living bodies considered as language) are becoming eroded. This endeavor implied a perhaps fictional notion; that the universe and everything in it is logico-mathematical. It also implied that all things and forces in the universe could be treated as a cryptogram, a code, a text that could be \e{read}, sooner or later. Another and muted implication was that all things in the universe were in some sense \e{perceptually} simultaneous. @@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ At time's end, the Christians promise---theme and variation---Resurrection and r These political and social materials, this kind of thought, woven back into the whole traditional memory-corpus of dramatic, fictional, religious works, permit us to see that a trans-disciplinary whole operated even in the ancient past\ld\ albeit using coded languages. These were preserved, by some, with consequences for the present. On the other hand, what was selectively forgotten and buried? We never get to hear the peasant's side of the story in the Joseph tale. The oppressed have no dynastic history. The concreteness, the mundanity of the past, has been generalized; its particularity eroded, just like the start-up equity put into a corporation. The information of the past shapes the information processing of the present. -The econometric predictions of this present\fnote{think of the Russian-American wheat deal of 1972--73, the decision to corner the grain market, extensive planning} uses, with minor variation, the Josephian scenario. In fact, to tell the story again, the disaster Joseph predicted was not a disaster of underproduction---but too many years of \e{over}production, with attendant depressed prices; requiring either a famine to be manufactured, or at least an \e{informational} famine created by cornering the market, leading to real hunger. Prices? Is this really in \booktitle{The Bible}? Joseph, after all, as Pharaoh's agent, sold the surplus grain on the world market during a world famine. New discourses inserted back into past events disrupt the holiness of the memory time-series, and question the legitimacy of modern thought-buildup; indeed, the legitimacy of all present-based\slash obsessed-with-past, the soft cause-effect linkages built into history.
\ No newline at end of file +The econometric predictions of this present\fnote{think of the Russian-American wheat deal of 1972--73, the decision to corner the grain market, extensive planning.} uses, with minor variation, the Josephian scenario. In fact, to tell the story again, the disaster Joseph predicted was not a disaster of underproduction---but too many years of \e{over}production, with attendant depressed prices; requiring either a famine to be manufactured, or at least an \e{informational} famine created by cornering the market, leading to real hunger. Prices? Is this really in \booktitle{The Bible}? Joseph, after all, as Pharaoh's agent, sold the surplus grain on the world market during a world famine. New discourses inserted back into past events disrupt the holiness of the memory time-series, and question the legitimacy of modern thought-buildup; indeed, the legitimacy of all present-based\slash obsessed-with-past, the soft cause-effect linkages built into history.
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