Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:25:46 -0500
From: Ian VanHeusen <ianvanh@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject: Word-virus: Nomadic Resistance

The following is research (or experimentation) for a graduate paper. Please
reply on list & forwarding is always encouraged. Thanks to any & all who
participate. If this sounds familiar, then we probably read the same books.

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I am iterating myself
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It is the internet
It is a network
It is the logic of the leaves of grass (& therefore Walt Whitman)
It is the &
It is the rhizome
It is (to quote Paul Celan)

             Underway
                 +
              Under the way
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There can be no reform. Society cannot be changed. (blank) can only be
infected.
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The word virus is ingested. (blank) spreads through all major systems, but
never appearing on the surface of the skin. The word-virus is underground,
like the Weathermen.
In other words, "The revolution will not be televised."
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All the spectator will see are symptoms.
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William Burroughs was a programmer of word-virus, but there is no singular
programmer.
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Wilhem Reich devised a system of body contortions through which stored
neurosis is released from the body cells.
Word-virus contorts language... acting the same way upon brain cells.
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Like sexual intercourse, it is always a computer-to-computer exchange.
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The ultimate word-virus will completely unable reality as we know it.
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Current sources of infection:
the Move Organization, Language poetry, Ethno-poetics, the Albany Free
School, the Zapatistas, Chaos Theory, Deleuze & Guattarri, Derrida, & etc.
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The word-virus is propoganda but not because (blank) presents a clear
political agenda, but... NEVERMIND, the word-virus is propogating.
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The state has always existed in order to attempt at curing the word-virus
OR
The only vaccination for the word-virus is fascism.
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Word-virus is recieving Alan Sondheim's e-mails everyday via the list. There
have been numerous reports of seizures. Patients have reported a desire to
read everything at once.
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Often  I am left with no choice but to delete the messages because I cannot
deal with their impossibility.
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Another source of infection: My friend who insists upon yelling at Movie
Screens & encourages me to join saying, "How can you just sit there without
doing something?"
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Warning: resistance is contagious
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It is the Mendelbrot set
It is Autumn Rythm (not Pollock)
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The word-virus is not it.
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The word-
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It is a space opened by a koan
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Maurice Blanchot, Gertrude Stein, Mac Low, & etc.
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The Buffalo poetics list, and subsequently all discussion lists, operate on
the logic of the word-virus. The desired effect of a post is infection.
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"Our word is our weapon." Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
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I self-iterating my
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Furthermore, Reichian pyschoanalytic practice involves the development of
self-regulation. This process involved the undermining of imposed morality,
substituting what Reich refferred to as "sex-economy" as the basis for
forming decisions.

In other words, he planted a word-virus that disabled moral inhibtions.
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Through iteration the word-virus is constantly mutating, displacing even
(blank)'s identity.
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In an extreme cas of infection, the patient Kurt Schwitters said the
following:
Lanke te gllll.
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The pie-ing of "officials" is not word-virus. However, (blank) is extremely
humorous and highly encouraged.
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The word-virus is the ideological weapon of Anarchism in that (blank)
displaces the heirarchy of ideology.
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After the word virus was released upon the tower of Babel, everyone went
home and began writing poetry in their tongues.

We should note that not one word was legible.
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Try to think the internet
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etc.


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