You are invited to partake in the creation of _The_Last_Book_ How do you participate? Merely by changing, writing, mangling, morphing,transmorging,violating,the text below and sending your efforts back to mediak@well.sf.ca.us. The entire collection of changes and detours will be printed in a beautiful "Artlaw" edition by MediaKaos. All contributors will recieve a copy of the collection, as well as recieving credit for their work. If you wish to contribute, but don't want your email address included, please leave a note to that effect, and directions as to how you wish to be credited. This will be an edition sold "at cost" ( just to cover the nice offset work ) and therefore we cannot pay anyone for their contributions. Pass this along to anyone you think may be interested in playing our infinte game, email or print out to those who have no email access. Non-email contributions may be snail mailed to: MediaKaos 409 Laguna #4D San Francisco, CA 94102 As an example we have included the first contribution by Rob Breszny. Mutatis Mutundis! Joseph Matheny Cultural Provocateur MediaKaos ************************************************* The Last Book : A MediaKaos Work in Progress Anti-Copyright/ Plagarite 1993, Mediakaos Chapter 1 An Invitation to Dance This is an open invitation to partake in an infinite game.Over the course of an undefined span of time an experiment will be conduted by the authors of this book in an immersion experience, an interaction between book and recipient.The true authors of this book are the ones who partake of the moments of it's experience, myself as I write and assemble the words,images,sounds, and artifacts involved, and you as you rewrite and discover thier potential to create an enviroment. ************************************************* In the past the spoken word was viewed as holding some kind of power or resonance while the written word was viewed as dead and only imbued with potential life (ie. when recited or intoned). it is in this spirit that this work was created.The recipient of this tome is encouraged to partake in it's conception and to nurse it along so that it may become a living intelligence system. What will be born will vary with the input of the user.Remember the old programing adage " G.I.G.O. or garbage in garbage out" to which we add "B.I.B.O. or beauty in beauty out" or "random in random out" or "intent in new form out", ad infinitum. Many forms will be born, from shuddering monsters to a shining philosophers stone. Let a thousand flowers bloom! ************************************************** Since there is no goal to this experiment other than the goal of perpetually discovering new forms and new ways of perceiving, it is an infinite game. An infinite game is played for the purpose of continuing play, as opposed to a finite game which is played for the purpose of winning or defining winners. It is an act of free will. No one can "play" who is forced to play. ************************************************** This work endeavours to escape the constancy of numerical boundaries.Whenever persons may walk on or off the field of play as they wish,there is such a flux of participants that none can emerge as a clear victor. ************************************************** The traditional format of the book is one that dictates a posture of passive reception on the part of the reader.The author is delivering a monologue ( much like the one delivered here) and the reader is the reciever or passive audience.Even bold experiments like the cut -up can become an exercise in monologue. To be effective or to have real relevance to the reader cut-up must be an act on the part of the reader.To discover new ways of percieving is the responsibility of the individual.To make it truly experiential cut it up yourself! This is not to say that the cut-up discoveries of others cannot be a valuable source of information, but why stop there. This act could move the reader into a position of becoming a co-author or co-conspirator in the process of creation. To conspire literally means "to breath together". ************************************************* x`\xxx\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\dffffffffffff,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,kkhhjnnnnnnlll,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,/==457 The preceding statement was written by a cat. ************************************************** The day on which you recieve this book is the begining of a new cycle,it represents a new calender. ************************************************** The etymology of the word cycle, from the Greek, indicates circularity. ************************************************** The week is a non celestial time cycle, indicative of another moon with a shorter orbit. ************************************************** The 7 day week is still most evidently felt within the domain of work.As opposed to hunter gatherer societies, modern workers are in a pattern of temporal regularity that is essentially artificial, not dictated by daily variations between the quality of vision between night and day, seasonal variations in tempature or amount of rain, and so on. The artificiality of the modern "work /rest" beat results from the fact that it is dissociated from most natural rythyms, being largely derived from a mechanical periodicity. ************************************************** The dominant motif for the weekday is production(work), while that of the weekend is consumption( shopping and entertainment). ************************************************* Schedules and calenders are intimately linked to group formation,and a temporal pattern that is unique to a group often contributes to the establishment of social boundaries that distinguish as well as actually seperate group members from "outsiders". ************************************************** A deck of cards has 52 cards. There are 52 weeks in a year. The numerical value of the 52 cards add up to 364, plus the joker or floating card to make 365. Each year has 364 definite days with a floating day to make 365. There are 4 suits in a deck of cards. There are 4 seasons in a year. ************************************************** Entropic Apocalyptic * * Physical Metaphysical * * Scientific law Random principle * * Slow but irreversible decay Destruction and regeneration * * No hope Hope ************************************************** At the end of every apocalypse is the apperance of a new heaven and earth.Before something new can be built the ground must first be cleared of the old monolithic structures that cover the soil. ************************************************** Is humanities purpose merely to make fractals into straight lines? ************************************************** This is your card. ************************************************** This space intentionally left blank. ************************************************** This space mistakenly left blank. ************************************************** Saturday-Day of Saturn Sunday-Day of Sun Monday-Day of Moon Tuesday-Day of Mars Wedensday-Day of Mercury Thursday-Day of Jupiter Friday-Day of Venus ************************************************** S.H.I.V.A. (Super Heuristic Invitro Virual Anomoly) The code to reproduce this language virus is as follows: ************************************************** 1 Message 1: From 73077.2524@CompuServe.COM Mon Nov 8 10:37:20 1993 Date: 08 Nov 93 13:31:56 EST From: "Rob Brezsny, Asshole of the Year" <73077.2524@CompuServe.COM> To: Subject: Infinite Book Replacement This replaces the previous transmission, which cut off some of the co-authors' words in mid-breath. I guess the translation from the Televisionary Netweb to the Internet is not yet quite efficient. Excerpts from "The Last VideoBook" Anti-Copyright/Plagarite 1993, Mediakaos and Copywrong 1993, Psychoactivist Chapter 2 An Invitation to Dance This is an open invitation to be born too many times. Over the course of an undefined span of time, an experiment will be conducted by the authors of this book to create a story of the nuclear furnace that grows like a sweet choromosome in the tender loop of god talking to herself. This is in an immersion experience, an interaction between book and recipient. The true authors of this book are the ones who partake of the moments of its experience, myself as I write and assemble the words, images, sounds, and artifacts involved, and you as you prove that you are living within the pleasure dome where the gods' trickiest games unfold, games whose rules demand you experience the pleasure of trying to trick the gods before they trick you. ****************************************** There is no goal to this experiment other than to tell ourselves glad stories of the jewel that festers north of our medulla oblongatas, a jewel that tempts our hairy unguided trembling pouting souls to find Asclepius of Epidaurus in Dreamtime or Cyberspace, whichever comes first. The story has no commercial appeal, for it has no basis in "fact," no use as a device for seduction, no value as a flattering mirror of samsara, and no resonance with the language of the dominator class. The story is an infinite game; it is a tidal wave of fantasy that has arrived here in this moment (and every moment) from four billion suns simultaneously. The game is played solely for the purpose of continuing play, as opposed to a finite game which is played for the purpose of winning or defining winners. It is an act of free will. No one can "play" who is forced to play. ****************************************** The traditional format of the book is one that dictates female body mutilation, practiced ritually by many different cultures. The author, or "terrorist," is attempting to conjure an experience analogous to fucking his date after a trip to the rifle range for target practice. Even bold experiments like the anorexic beauty contest can become little more than an exercise in finding the proper proportions of milk, blood, sperm, gasoline and oil. To be effective or to have real relevance to the reader the author must refute the literary critic's claim that "most terrorists are very normal." Furthermore, to discover why the great white eagle has blood spattered on its head in the final stages of the Great Work is the responsibility not of the eagle but of the "terrorist." To make it truly experiential, in other words, become the eagle! This is not to say that when you're "stuffed with solidified light" you can't "sink to the bottom of the sea" in order to activate the "qaumanEq," or shamanlight of the brain. But why stop there? This act could move the reader, as well as the author, into a position of participating in the Iroquois dream- guessing rite, whose aim is to guess the dreamer's "ondinnonk," or the secret wish of the soul revealed in the dream. To dream together literally means "overcome the putrid patriarchal stench that William Gibson's aura has left in the Dreamtime." ****************************************** Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara labored for 100,000 kalpas (one kalpa equals a thousand lifetimes) to be a good enough guy to cancel out the bad karma of everyone else in the world. It worked--for a while. All sentient beings fled joyfully from samsara like a day of free ice cream on the playground. But just before he was about to slip into the final strangulation, the absolute blissful extinction of nirvana, he peeked back and saw that everybody he had just saved was backsliding--bad. He cried two tears. One was White Tara and one Green Tara. The preceding statement was spit by a seahorse. ****************************************** The day on which you receive this book is the begining of Zen Pride Week, a calendar in which there are 20 months of 13 days each plus a five-day Saturnalia during which all may have sex with all without karmic consequences. ****************************************** The etymology of the word enceinte, from the French, indicates "ready to pop." ****************************************** The 7 day week is still most evidently felt within the domain of work. As opposed to hunter gatherer societies, modern workers are in a pattern of temporal regularity that is essentially artificial, not dictated by daily tantric asymptotal self-cannibalizations (one's own fingernails, hair, snot, menstrual blood, etc.) ****************************************** Funtropic Mediapocalyptic * * Oxymoronic Carbomoronic * * Morphogenetic field "Cult of Science" necessity * * Premature nihilism Premature orgasm * * No name Hope-ocalypse ****************************************** At the end of every Malkuth is the appearance of a new Kether. Before Tiphareth can be built the Fool must first jump off the cliff. ****************************************** This is your baseball-Tarot card. ****************************************** S.H.I.V.A. (Super Heuristic Invitro Virtual Anomoly) The code to reproduce this language virus is as follows: I.H.V.H. (Interactive Homemade Viral Hologram) ******************************************