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eary william wordsworth tuesday october 25 2016 on a few of the many varieties of codes and deceptive behaviors in history buckminster fuller writes about the earliest polynesian navigators who were wizards who learned to sail east to west against the winds with secret knowledge that was only shared orally with their sons or coded in their chants knowing all about boats these navigator priests were the only people who knew that the earth was spherical that the earth is a closed system with its myriad resources chartable but being water people they kept their charts in their heads and relayed the information to their navigator progeny exclusively in esoterical legendary symbolical codings embroidered into their chants synergetics pp 749 751 i see this as an example of a small group who protect their knowledge because it was powerful and probably because it was thrilling for small group cohesion how do we decode writing such as what you re looking at right now in 11th century fatimid egypt under science loving al hakim who had become ruler at age 11 but then disappeared mysteriously during a solitary walk 25 years later cairo was the apex of learning in the world lots of trade with mediterranean neighbors a fearsome army recruited from sudanese turks and berbers the polynesian s sailing code long since cracked among the brains that drained toward cairo at this historical moment was al hasan ibn al haytham western scholars called him alhazen from basra one project was to explain perception al haytham had read the recent translations of aristotle and agreed that things we see enter the eye via the air but al haytham elaborated with more physiological and mathematical suppositions about how perception happens furthermore he said we perceive via a faculty of judgement after inference pure sensation was different from perception the latter requiring a conscious voluntary act on our part here was a theory of gradations of consciousness 900 years before korzybski there was first pure sensation whatever we experience before words analogous to korzybski s event level then we voluntarily attend to some phenomena say paying attention to letters and words and sentences on a page perception then we decipher the words and finally we are reading al haytham died in 1038 i mention the 20th century polymath korzybski in the first half of the 18th century the neapolitan polymath giambattista vico wrote people first feel things without noticing them then notice them with inner stress and disturbance and finally reflect on them with a clear mind the new science 53 al hasan ibn al haytham b 965 wrote possibly the first great work in optics influenced roger bacon and leonardo da vinci roughly 200 years later under europe s catholic mullahs led by pope clement iv roger bacon one of those guys interested in everything was interested in optics he d read al haytham but was keeping it on the qt and yet still got persecuted for unorthodox teaching there were a lot of churchmen who insisted rather violently that scientific research was dangerous to church dogma they have made some progress since then bacon explained to the pope how optics perception reading probably worked bacon and al haytham had both realized it s got to be far more complex than they d suspected in 11th century islam al haytham was not persecuted roger bacon soon after trying to explain to the pope roughly the same theory found himself in a cell 250 or so years later leonardo da vinci was interested in this same problem of decoding perception and reading but he was smart enough to know he could get in trouble he wrote about it in his notebooks in a secret code that could only be read when held up to a mirror it s only in the last 80 years that we ve gotten a thick neurobiological account of how reading occurs and there s still interesting problems being worked out at this minute when looking into codes and ciphers codes are one thing ciphers another all translation from one language to another is codework any language you can t read can function as a code to crack at one time only priests kings and scribes accountants knew how to write and read for everyone else in the culture writing was a code o so many codes and right out in the open if only we could crack hack decipher decode not long ago i yet again re watched one of those films from the great age of hollywood paranoia c 1971 1976 three days of the condor in which robert redford plays a cia agent whose specialty is reading novels looking for codes embedded in them these codes would apparently qualify as steganography messages hidden within other messages and how do you know i m not doing that right now if i m doing it please take my word for it it s all in good clean fun i remember when i first saw condor i thought redford s job was a fiction writer s fancy but apparently it s a real thing and being taken more and more seriously by yes cia but all sorts of others working in the not so great game what if some of our best conspiracy writers and novelists of exquisite paranoia were leaving code in their books that hadn t yet been cracked i mean it could happen right maybe not but we never know let s not rule it out completely which reminds me of a passage in don delillo s haunting hilarious deeply paranoid and postmodern white noise the main character who is a professor specializing in hitler studies his ex wife works for the cia she told me very little about her intelligence work i knew she reviewed fiction for the cia mainly long serious novels with coded structures the work left her tired and irritable rarely able to enjoy food sex or conversation she spoke spanish to someone on the telephone was a hyperactive mother shining with an eerie stormlight intensity the long novels kept arriving in the mail it was curious how i kept stumbling into the company of lives in intelligence dana worked part time as a spy tweedy came from a distinguished old family that had a long tradition of spying and counterspying and she was now married to a high level jungle operative janet before retiring to the ashram was a foreign currency analyst who did research for a secret group of advanced theorists connected to some controversial think tank all she told me is that they never met in the same place twice p 213 maybe it s just me but high level jungle operative makes me laff white noise is one of delillo s short novels but there are some really long serious novels with coded structures hmmmm speaking of postmodernists douglas rushkoff in his wonderful book program or be programmed writes that the postmodernists were right to be suspicious of language and reality but they didn t go far enough they hadn t accounted for the hidden biases of code writers whose codes were embedded deep within our digital gadgets see pp 83 84 ibid well the pre postmodernists often called simply modernists a few of them left works so cryptic and therefore threatening to dull minds like j edgar hoover s that they became suspect even though james joyce never set foot on unistat soil hoover saw him as a threat joyce had an fbi file because someone in joyce s extended circle was a known communist joyce was suspected as one too he was more of an individualist anarchist of some sort from claire culleton s joyce and the g men even as early as 1920 joyce had been plagued by rumors about him and his work and he was laughably reputed to be a spy for the austrians the british and the italians he even complained to his brother stanislaus that ulysses was believed to be a prearranged german code ezra pound had heard that british censorship suspected ulysses of being a code p 45 culleton anyone who s looked at finnegans wake for 5 minutes might wonder what the eternally paranoid agents of control thought joyce must have been up to if we go back to the early distinction between codes and ciphers and al haytham s and roger bacon s and leonardo s forays into human perception and reading well then surely ulysses and finnegans wake are written in code only in a different semantic sense than what an asshole like j edgar hoover would sense as code similarly ezra pound after being captured by the allies in italy had to answer to the charge that his cantos were some sort of code see one of my earlier posts on codes here skip down to modernist investigative poets are suspects by definition the great cryptologist david kahn writes about the enigma of the emotional bases of cryptology reminding us that freud stated that the motivation for learning for the acquisition of knowledge derives ultimately from the child s impulse to see the hidden sexual organs of adults and other children if curiosity is a sublimation of this then cryptanalysis may be even more positively a manifestation of voyeurism p 755 the code breakers kahn follows with a long line of later psychoanalysts who basically agreed with freud and many who challenged his idea nevertheless i find the idea cosmically funny i mean if freud s right and i don t think he is but anyway then if you ve read this far and feel like you acquired some knowledge from the og tis only cuz you re some sort of very well practiced voyeur which reminds me of pynchon s gravity s rainbow fairly early in the book you ll recall allied spies have noticed that us army lieutenant tyrone slothrop has sexual conquests all around london and they re followed by v 2 rocket hit in the same place he had sex a couple few days later they don t know why but there are theories rockets and hard ons slothrop s penis must have a code to crack it his dick was possibly encoded by who does he know slothrop seems to not know how are they going to crack this code talk about an enigma psychedelický grafický umělecké dílo bob campbell posted by michael at 1 16 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels al haytham alfred korzybski claire culleton don delillo douglas rushkoff james joyce leonardo da vinci obscure and coded texts roger bacon sigmund freud steganography thomas pynchon sunday october 16 2016 bob dylan wins nobel prize for lit well that was a surprise those erisian swedes in the quantum universe next door my main pick thomas pynchon won finally he has not appeared in public to say anything of course there are rumors he ll send jon stewart to stockholm in his stead when pynchon won the national book award in 1973 he sent zany professor irwin corey to accept on his behalf pynchon s publisher has given a very short press conference saying pynch has already given the award money away to be divided up among black lives matter the 9 11 first responders who still need medical relief doctors without borders and john perry barlow who the press release reads is a member of the loyal opposition who needs it since it was announced i ve caught myself thinking more and more about dylan and my associated mental relationships to him my mom had dylan s lp nashville skyline playing when i was a a pre teen i remember looking at the cover and reading his name as bob dye lan i loved my mom s beatles records more than the dylan hell i loved her carly simon record no secrets more than the dylan but maybe it s because carly s braless look was jacking up the baud rate on my boy organism believe it or not this is really dylan and not cate blanchett speaking of the beatles dylan in 1964 was shocked to meet the lads and find out they hadn t tried weed he turned them on and there s a wonderfully drawn out piece on this historical moment in george case s book out of our heads rock n roll before the drugs wore off a passage from harry shapiro s waiting for the man the story of drugs and popular music in 1964 dylan refused a request from ginsberg to lead a peace rally at berkeley and earned the unbending enmity of singer phil ochs who called him lsd on stage dylan reported that ochs was writing bullshit because politics were absurd and the world was unreal dylan took his personal drug inspired research for freedom and escape through mr tambourine man and highway 61 revisited to the ego dissolution of like a rolling stone and blonde on blonde nevertheless claims that all references to railways and tracks and capitalised h s on lyric sheets demonstrate that dylan was a heroin addict or that blowin in the wind was secretly a song about the wonders of cocaine are probably best led in the more extreme realms of dylanology in the early sixties sharing the experiences of marijuana and lsd between creative spirits had a missionary zeal about it rock writer al aronowitz turned both ginsberg and dylan on to marijuana dylan in turn introduced dope smoking to the beatles they met him on their first tour of america dylan was anti chemical at the time probably due to a surfeit of amphetamine and suggested that the beatles try something more natural dylan rolled the first joint and passed it to lennon who too scared to try passed it on to ringo the episode ended with everyone rolling round the floor in hysterics pp 116 117 sociologists who made a study of the woodstock generation found that of the 1000 respondents 43 believed most of the music of the sixties could only be understood by someone who had undergone the marijuana and psychedelic drug experience this study was done in 1977 78 and the majority said their first pot experience was in a college dorm with either dylan or led zeppelin playing in the background let us take people who went to woodstock who were age 20 25 they were born between 1944 and 1949 the first boomers which brings me to dylan s 1965 newport folk festival outrage dylan appeared there playing an electric guitar and much of the audience was famously outraged it s difficult to gauge in reading multiple sources the extent of the disapproval but when i learned about this historical moment i was deep into playing black sabbath rush and deep purple guitar solos on my electric guitar i had always noted any overt response between what a person thought about the acoustic guitar versus the electric i now think steve waksman s book instruments of desire the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience is the finest explication of the social construction of acoustic vs electric i also think the fascinating aspect of timbre and its cultural and existential phenomenal impact is worth delving into if it s your kinda thing dylan s move to electric illuminated the extent of culture s hidden ideologies surrounding electric vs acoustic and maybe he deserves a nobel for just this oh but the nobel was for dylan as literature right i got off topic oh well i consider subterranean homesick blues to be proto jewish rap from the sixties one of my favorite bloggers tom jackson wrote a bit on dylan s nobel here acid isn t for the groovy people acid is for the president and people like that the groovy people don t need to take acid dylan in 1967 found on p 24 of r u sirius s everybody must get stoned rock stars on drugs a funny 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