Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:25:46 -0500 From: Ian VanHeusen Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group 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. ***** I am iterating myself ***** 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 ***** There can be no reform. Society cannot be changed. (blank) can only be infected. ***** 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." ***** All the spectator will see are symptoms. ***** William Burroughs was a programmer of word-virus, but there is no singular programmer. ***** 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. ***** Like sexual intercourse, it is always a computer-to-computer exchange. ***** The ultimate word-virus will completely unable reality as we know it. ***** Current sources of infection: the Move Organization, Language poetry, Ethno-poetics, the Albany Free School, the Zapatistas, Chaos Theory, Deleuze & Guattarri, Derrida, & etc. ***** The word-virus is propoganda but not because (blank) presents a clear political agenda, but... NEVERMIND, the word-virus is propogating. ***** The state has always existed in order to attempt at curing the word-virus OR The only vaccination for the word-virus is fascism. ***** 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. ***** Often I am left with no choice but to delete the messages because I cannot deal with their impossibility. ***** 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?" ***** Warning: resistance is contagious ***** It is the Mendelbrot set It is Autumn Rythm (not Pollock) ***** The word-virus is not it. ***** The word- ***** It is a space opened by a koan ***** Maurice Blanchot, Gertrude Stein, Mac Low, & etc. ***** 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. ***** "Our word is our weapon." Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN ***** I self-iterating my ***** 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. ***** Through iteration the word-virus is constantly mutating, displacing even (blank)'s identity. ***** In an extreme cas of infection, the patient Kurt Schwitters said the following: Lanke te gllll. ***** The pie-ing of "officials" is not word-virus. However, (blank) is extremely humorous and highly encouraged. ***** The word-virus is the ideological weapon of Anarchism in that (blank) displaces the heirarchy of ideology. ***** 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. ***** Try to think the internet ***** etc. ________________________________________________ Policies dangerously increase. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger with backgrounds, emoticons and more. http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/cdp_customize