Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 20:58:06 PDT Reply-To: Return-Path: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (v cebtenz zl bja pbzchgre) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0083] INBOX: ICS; Fiction; Heffter; BUY 0 DAY; Unhistory ! If you are writing to offer large sums of money, chocolate, ! fast cars, or other trinkets and amusements, you can try ! leaving Spaf voice mail for more immediate attention: ! 317-494-7825. ! ! If you are seeking to serve a subpoena or overdue bill, ! you've got the wrong address, wrong guy, wrong network, ! wrong planet. So sorry. ! ! X-Responding: Spaf's trusty mail software I kept the cypherania together in the issue 0082 -- this issue is a grab bag, mostly material from surfpunkers (thanks!). I'm including only the banners and table of contents from the brand new ICSzine -- but they say > To aid us in creating the summer issues we cannot stress > how important it is for people to send us submissions. If > we do not receive enough submissions it will take us longer > to compile summer issues. So, send us polished articles, > poems, stories, et cetera that you feel other ICS readers > (worldwide) would like to read. so subscribe, and help'em out! [Trailer from aNaRcKy (X-)BBS.] strick ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 18:31:30 -0600 (MDT) From: ORG_ZINE@WSC.COLORADO.EDU (ICS ELectrozine: Information, Communication, Supply.) 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Contributors to ICS assume all responsibilities for ensuring that articles/submissions are not violating copyright laws and protections. |\__________________________________________________/| | \ / | | \ T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S / | | / \ | | /________________________________________________\ | |/ \| | Included in the table of contents you will see some| | generic symbols to help you in making your | | decisions on whether an article is something that | | may use ideas, and/or language that could be | | offensive to some. S = Sexual Content | | AL = Adult Language V = Violence O = Opinions | |____________________________________________________| I. FIRST OPINION: SEASONS CHANGE: The Past and Future of ICS. By Deva Winblood. This will answer some questions and also inform our readers of some activities and plans for the future of ICS. II. CHALLENGE/INVITATION: For Creative And/Or Institutional Thinkers. By George Sibley. III. WORLDNET TOUR GUIDE: Obtaining Free Electronic Music. By Deva Winblood. Talks about MODs, where they can be found, what you need to play them, and who writes them. IV. TALES OF THE UNKNOWN #4: By George Sibley. No one ever thought a calendar could be so mystical. V. MY GOD, WHY HATH THOU FORSAKEN ME?: Part I of a story to be continued in Issue #5 by Ted Sanders. (AL,V) VI. THE RIGHT DECISION: A story by Catherine Murray. This story deals with... Well, you'll see. It is a very good story. Ben Price says so. VII. IMPURE MATH: Submitted by Rodrigo de Almeida Siqueira. This humorous tale was submitted by a man of vast interests. VIII.MARTIANS ARE COMING pt. 2: A story continuation of the first part featured in ICS Issue #3. By Russell Hutchison. IX. RUSH: A story by Daniel Frederick. This story is definitely not intended for Arachnophobes. (V) X. CHAOTICON II Announcement: A public service announcement. XI. TOME OF VAST KNOWLEDGE Announcement: A public service announcement. XII. FINAL OPINION: By Benjamin Price. In this episode Ben is complaining about the weather and possibly saying farewell. ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 14:53:07 -0600 To: From: amerika@spot.colorado.edu Subject: Re: [surfpunk-0073] REVIEW: _Black Ice_ Strick- I don't know if this kind of NEWS RELEASE is of interest to you and your readers but it was suggested to me by Don Webb that I send this to you. There's also an electronic review someone just sent me and I can send that along if you'd like. Wigging In The Warp of A New World Genderware, Mark Amerika ___________________ *****WHAT IS AVANT-POP?***** April 1, 1993 is the official publication date for Black Ice Books. Black Ice Books is a new alternative trade paperback series that will introduce readers to the latest wave of dissident American writers. Breaking out of the bonds of mainstream writing, the voices published here are subversive, challenging and provocative. The first four books include: "Avant-Pop: Fiction For A Daydream Nation" Edited by Larry McCaffery, this book is an assemblage of innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics and various other unclassifiable texts by writers like Samuel Delany, Mark Leyner, William Vollmann, Kathy Acker, Eurudice, Stephen Wright, Derek Pell, Harold Jaffe, Tim Ferret, Ricardo Cortez Cruz and many others. One of the least cautious, nerviest editors going, Larry McCaffery is the No-Care Bear of American Letters. --- William Gibson A clusterbomb of crazy fiction, from a generation too sane to repeat yesterday's lies. --- Tom Robbins "New Noir" Stories by John Shirley John Shirley bases his stories on his personal experience of extreme people and extreme mental states, and on his struggle with the seductions of drugs, crime, prostitution and violence. "John Shirley is an adventurer, returning from dark and troubled regions with visionary tales to tell." --- Clive Barker "The Kafka Chronicles" a novel by Mark Amerika The Kafka Chronicles is an adventure into the psyche of an ultracontemporary twentysomething guerilla artist who is lost in an underworld of drugs and mental terrorism, where he encounters an unusual cast of angry yet sensual characters. "Mr Amerika --- if indeed that is his name --- has achieved a unique beauty in his artful marriage of Blake's lyricism and the iron-in-the-soul of Celine. Are we talking a new and hard-hitting Antonin Artaud? Absolutely. And much more." --- Terry Southern "Revelation Countdown" by Cris Mazza Stories that project onto the open road not the nirvana of personal freedom but rather a type of freedom more closely resembling loss of control. "Talent jumps off her like an overcharge of electrcity" LA Times Discount Mail-Order Information: These books are available in good independent bookstores, but you have the option of buying them directly from the publisher at a discount. Buy one for $7, two for $13, three for $19 or all four for $25. We pay US postage! (Foreign orders add $2.50 per book). ____ Avant-Pop ____ New Noir ____ The Kafka Chronicles ____ Revelation Countdown Please make all checks or money orders payable to: Fiction Collective Two Publications Unit Illinois State University Normal, IL 61761 for more information you can contact amerika@spot.colorado.edu ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 18:48:17 CDT From: matthew john baggott To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com Subject: New Psychedelic Research Institute strick, here is some info on a new very reputable research institute that will be using psycehdelics as tools to investigate the human mind. The founders of this institute are all very respected scientists who've been doing outstanding work in this field for some time. I'm very, very pleased that this institute is being put together now and I am sure that other wetware hackers will share my enthusiasm. With the approval of DMT and MDMA research in humans and the formation of this institute, I think we're seeing a new psychedelic renaissance which will avoid many of the mistakes of the last one. I have deleted much of the text from this prospectus. Anyone interested in the full text, which gives fairly detailed development plans and brief bibliographic sketches of the founders can e-mail me. --M@ -- The Heffter Research Institute: Excerpts from the Prospectus ...Only one thing is certain, however, and it is this: the tool that humanity will use to discover the solutions [to its problems] will be the same one that has brought us this far along: the human mind... ...Given the central and paramount importance of the human mind to the past, present, and future existence of our species, it is curious how little we know about it... The mind, however generated, is the source of all discovery and invention. Since it offers the only source of solutions to the problems that face us today, and will face us in the future, it follows that efforts to understand the mind--to figure out what it is, how it works, what it can do, and the nature of its relationship to the brain--should be given the highest priority. ...Curiously, among the various tools available to man for furthering the understanding of the mind, some of the most promising are also some of the most ancient. They also happen to be some of the most neglected, and some of the most feared. These tools belong to a class of substances known popularly as psychedelic drugs--which literally means "mind manifesting..." While psychedelics may pose a danger for individuals with a predisposition toward mental instability, they are among the physiologically safest pharmacological tools available for investigating the relationship between consciousness and the brain. In the proper hands, and under the right conditions, psychedelics are invaluable research tools for exploring the infrastructures of the mind. Indeed, it is our thesis that these drugs represent a "new" technology for this work. Most other classes of psychoactive drugs that have found medical applications (and which also possess potential for abuse) such as narcotic- analgesics, sedatives, anxiolytics, stimulants, antidepressants, and antipsychotics, exert their effects via mechanisms and neural pathways that are relatively well understood. Moreover, most of these agents do not directly affect what are usually considered to be the "higher" brain functions, although they may do so indirectly. In contrast, the psychedelic agents exert their most profound influence on the very functions that we consider uniquely human: our cognitive and symbolic capacities; our emotional, intuitive, and aesthetic sensibilities; our interpretative, linguistic, and imaginative abilities; and our capacity for religious experience. In short, psychedelic drugs work most directly on the kinds of brain functions that weave together the fabric of what we experience as mind. ... The Heffter Research Institute* was conceived as one possible approach to this problem. It is based on the belief that the multidisciplinary, legitimate, and scientifically sound investigation of psychedelic agents holds great potential for producing genuine breakthroughs in the understanding of the human mind. We are also sophisticated enough to recognize that the current political and intellectual climate makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to pursue research in certain directions within conventional frameworks, i.e., that of academic research supported by government funding. To be sure, the government will provide support to legitimate researchers of psychedelic agents, as the founders of the institute can testify from a long period of research funding. However, when it comes to extending the investigations from animal models to human subjects, or to testing hypotheses that the effects of psychedelics may in certain circumstances be beneficial, rather than entirely detrimental, the government's role as a supporter of legitimate research is then compromised by political and ideological concerns. ... We are truly at square one. It has been said that there is no force in the universe more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Let us believe together that now is the time. Direct further inquiries to: David E. Nichols, Ph.D. The Heffter Research Institute 4740 N. 225 W. West Lafayette, IN 47906-9702 _____________________ *Dr. Arthur Heffter (1860-1925) was a German pharmacologist with thorough training in chemistry. His study of the metabolism of sulfur compounds led to an interest in pharmacology which prompted him to study medicine. Following the completion of his medical studies in 1892, he worked for a time under the most prominent pharmacologist of his time, Oswald Schmiedeberg. He occupied the chair in pharmacology at the University of Berlin from 1908 until his death. Arthur Heffter was an expert in toxicology and forensic medicine. Unfortunately, his seminal contribution to research on psychedelics is not well recognized. He was the first to isolate chemically pure alkaloids from the peyote cactus, which he then studied both in animal assays and in self experiments. Through these efforts he discovered that mescaline was the principal psychoactive component in peyote. He thus was the first scientist to study the chemistry and psychopharmacology of a naturally occurring psychedelic substance in a systematic way. ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 08:57 PDT To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com Subject: BUY -0- DAY From: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey) The Second Annual - Intra National :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: -=|] B u y - 0 - D a y [|=- :=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=: Last year, on Thursday, September 24, 1992, a new holiday was born. Unlike most other holidays, this day long event discourages celebratory purchases in its name. In fact just the opposite. Held every September 24th, BUY NOTHING DAY is a twenty four hour, continent-wide moratorium on consumer spending, designed to remind both the public and the retailer of the true power of the buying public. It is an exercise in financial self-control. It is a reclamation of consumer control of the marketplace. It is a gesture of protest for those of us who all too often feel as if our lives and dreams have been marketed back to us. Participate by not participating. Stock up now, and on Friday, September 24, 1993, buy nothing. For more details or Poster-Bumper Sticker designs contact: The Media Foundation - Adbusters Quarterly 1243 W 7th Ave Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6H 1B7 Phone: 604-736-9401 Fax: 604-737-6021 There you have it, the people that even get a review in Wired are at it again this year. If they get encouragement they might even come online with a monthly zine effort. E-Mail can come to me for now: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 15:22 GMT From: Don Webb <0004200716@mcimail.com> To: surfpunk Subject: _Adventures in Unhistory_ Dear Dwellers in Arcana and others, I just did a review for _The New York Review of Science Fiction_ which I thought you might enjoy, so I'm previewing it here. The text that follows is (C) 1993 Don Webb. I hope you enjoy this. 0004200716@mcimail.com Don Webb The Secret of magic is to transform the magician. Author of book reviewed: Avram Davidson Editor of book reviewed: Translator of book reviewed: Title: Adventures in Unhistory Name of press: Owlswick Press Address of small press: PO Box 8243, Philadelphia, PA 19101-8243 Year of publication: 1993 Cloth and/or paper: Cloth Number of pages: 305 Price: Paper: Cloth: $24.75 If America were to become a police state, there would be certain books banned. Most would be banned in accordance with their slants -- a right wing state would ban the Communist Manifesto, left wingers might not have much use for Mein Kampf. But any totalitarian state would be well advised to ban Adventures in Unhistory for it is the kind of book that will make young dream dreams and start off on Quests. This is the perfect book to give people who are a little too sure about the world. The book is a collection of fifteen essays by Avram Davidson on as the subtitle says the factual foundations of several legends. The topics are wide ranging from mermaids to mandrakes, and mammoths to the theft of the mulberry tree. The sources of the essays seem to follow (for the most part) the career of editor George H. Schiters, who bought my first pro story and has other crimes to answer for, -- Asimov's in the early 80's, then Amazing, then Amra, then Weird Tales. He uses a light and entertaining prose for presenting his scholarship, sort of like Mircea Eliade done by Dave Berry. But the light tone does not hide the two key words here: scholarship and a sense of wonder. This book is in some way the opposite of a bad fantasy novel. Instead of dragging out old stodgy fictions of dwarves and elves and expecting you to be amazed, Mr. Davidson shows real wonders and allow you to think about this universe that is stranger than we know. Many of the essays are accompanied by bibliographies. The range of works cited in each is astonishing. On the essay on the dragon among the fifteen books included are Mircea Eliade's The Forge and the Crucible, Jacob Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana. This magical curiosity has impelled him to research the topics with love and care and time far out of proportion for the money paid for the work. This is a love a fair between one man and the mysterious. He sense something's out there and has looked in the best new scholarship and the older dust covered volumes of curious and forgotten lore. But most important this is done in a critical spirit rather that fuzzy way common to writers on occult and pseudoscience topics. This is a book of Runes, a Germanic/English term meaning literally a "Mystery" or "secret". Or if you would prefer the polysemy that Mr. Davidson himself delights in: in Latin it would be a book of "Arcanum" and in Egyptian "Seshetat" Magically it signifies the internal or subjective sense of the hidden, which is the driving force of all true becoming. It is the inner key to the power of curiosity without which Those who Know would never have set out on their Quests. Runes are thought to exist (though hidden) both within the subjective universe, and in some "place" outside the subjective universe. Because of their obscure outer edge of hidden things, the necessity of the development of objective foundations and of Methods of Understanding of such foundations in the usually all-too-murky world of the occult is essential. In this Davidson has succeeded, doing for popular readers what Mircea Eliade has done for specialist. This book will be a seed for many a lifelong quest -- it shows the method and the reward. It would be the absolutely perfect High School graduation gift. The only other book that goes as well for High School graduation would be Baltasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom, but I digress. George Barr has provided a series of well crafted illustrations, and Peter S. Beagle, whom I normally find irritating, has given a good introduction to who Avram Davidson is -- although I suspect that if you deal with a bookstore that carries Owlswick works you probably already know. Something a little scary happened the day I got the book. I had discussing the Aeon of Horus and its successor with a member of the O.T.O. (I have several black magicians in my sphere of personal acquaintance). The O.T.O. is a group dedicated to perpetuating the legacy of Aleister Crowley. My friend was talking about synchronicities being one of the ways the god spoke to us. I was dismissing the argument when the U.P.S. (the U.P.S. is group dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Postal; System) truck pulled up and delivered the yellow wrapped book. I told Gordon that I really, really wanted to review this book (because i knew otherwise I would be buying it). I unwrapped the book and Mary suggested that I try bibliomancy. So I opened the book after a remark about Crowley -- sure enough to page 115 in the Crowley essay in which after some delightful remarks about the Crowley-Yeats rivalry was the passage my thick index finger rested on, describing the reception of the Book of the Law: Aleister and Rose went to Cairo: and there on April 8, 1904, he had a vision, if that is what it was, which was to prove of immense effect: the "minister" of Horus, the ancient hawk-headed Egyptian god, appeared to him in the form of "a dark king about his own age with the face of a savage king." and, standing behind Crowley's left shoulder, dictated words which Crowley wrote, down: O blessed Beast and thou scarlet woman of his desire, Do what thou wilt shall the whole of the Law. . . . / ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. 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