Interzone report of April-May-June 2010 (1rst part)

 Photo: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/peter_orlovsky/photo  

Literature:

Interzone Editions:  

- The Time of the Naguals : first tomes on line in pdf:

I have converted in pdf and put on line the following books :

- "Le Temps des Naguals : Autour de Burroughs et Gysin": 134 pages http://www.inter-zone.org/thetimeofthenaguals/TNFR.pdf : see the contents at http://sites.google.com/site/aubertisa/tnbgfr-html

              In the English anthology of Interzone, two tomes seem to be ready now:  Ordering and classing the huge amount of the texts in different tomes is a hell of a work !

- "Around Burroughs and Gysin" Tome 1, 86 pages, http://www.inter-zone.org/thetimeofthenaguals/TN1AroundB&G.pdf  contains the original texts in English which were translated in the "Le Temps des Naguals: Autour de Burroughs et Gysin", plus texts about them: see the contents on line at : http://sites.google.com/site/aubertisa/tnbgen1-html

- "Research": 162 pages, www.inter-zone.org/thetimeofthenaguals/TN2research.pdf

This tome gathers the researches conducted in different domains related to those  explored by Burroughs and Gysin, by Interzone members spread all over the world, which they have continued them, with the tools of thinking we had in 1997, when Interzone started, and when we started this anthology. See the contents at : http://sites.google.com/site/aubertisa/tnenresearch-html

This anthology is an experiment of non-Aristotelian functions of writing described by Alfred Korzybski and applied and developed by Burroughs and Gysin:

1. Symbolic function of language * (Korzybski): a word is a symbol, a sign which stands for something. Language is a map of reality.

2 Function of time-binding *: writing binds the author and his readers through space-time:

"Whenever you use this bow I will be there," the Zen archery master tells his students. And he means there-quite literally. He lives in his students and thus achieves a measure of immortality. And the immortality of a writer is to be taken literally. whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers."  William S. Burroughs, "The Place of Dead Roads"

" Just before he signs off for good , many a man has picked up the distant voice of his doctor saying: " He is dead". Remember, these words are meaningless. When you read this I am alive. I am here on this page. I am here. I am HERE!" .

3. Magic function : "Writing is about making it happen" (Brion Gysin) : a writer writes a scenario of reality which his readers can make happen, and this way, create a reality which fits them: "In fact, writers are potentially very powerful. The write the scenario of the film of reality. Jack Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million Levis to both sexes." (Burroughs, "The Adding Machine: Selected Essays" ).

4. Through the link between the author and the reader, writing creates a collaboration between them, which produces, according to mathematic non-additivity *, a phenomenon called by Burroughs and Gysin "the Third-Mind" : with regard to human collaboration, 1 + 1 = 3 :

" Gysin: when you associate two minds...

Burroughs: There is always a third mind...

Gysin: A third higher mind...

Burroughs: Like an invisible collaborator. "

"The Third Mind".

This application of general semantics to writing is not an attempt to create a new literary trend. It is an experiment to use writing according to our present level of evolution in sciences. In the domains of sciences and techniques, we got to a high level of evolution, but in human domains, we are still stuck to the previous steps of evolution of our civilisation : Aristotle and Descartes, and think and act with obsolete patterns. 

* Alfred Korzybski: "Science and Sanity" 

- Le Taxidermiste / The Taxidermist on line:

Both comics by José ALTIMIRAS & François DARNAUDET were on line and disappeared in October 2009 with all the free sites of  Geocities. They now are on line again, in French and English, in www.inter-zone.org/ at :

Le Taxidermiste : http://www.inter-zone.org/letaxidermiste/cover.html

The Taxidermist: http://www.inter-zone.org/thetaxidermist/cover.html

Both books are available in printed version , published by Interzone Editions http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/letaxidermiste.aspx :

- Le Taxidermiste : ISBN : 978-2-9531513-1-2, Format: 21x 29,7 cm, 46 pages, 22 €

- The Taxidermist:  ISBN : 978-2-9531513-2-9, Format: 21x 29,7 cm, 46 pages, 22 €