<div><spanid="xnili">@ilinx</span>:<spanid="tilde">~</span>$ <b>Adin Fassrol</b><br>Professor Fassrol was widely known as a pioneer in the application of cybernetics methodologies to anthropology and mythology. His visionary approach made possible the maturation of what now we call cyber- or <aclass="home"href="ve.html">virtual ethnology</a>. He was one of the main researchers to criticize the occultist wing of the new discipline led by Echidna Stillwell, however, due to the pressure of academic institution his work is now remembered as essential voice during the golden age of Virtual Anthropology, nowdays working in totally different ways. During the 70s professor Fassrol found the chair in experimental semiotics of the Harvard institute representing a nomad figure in a usually ortodox environment.</div>
<div><spanid="xnili">@ilinx</span>:<spanid="tilde">~</span>$ <b>Adin Fassrol</b><br>Professor Fassrol was widely known as a pioneer in the application of cybernetics methodologies to anthropology and mythology. His visionary approach made possible the maturation of what now we call cyber- or <aclass="home"href="ve.html">virtual ethnology</a>. He was one of the main researchers to criticize the occultist wing of the new discipline led by Echidna Stillwell, however, due to the pressure of academic institutions his work is now remembered an essential voice during the golden age of Virtual Anthropology, nowdays working in totally different ways. During the 70s professor Fassrol found the chair in experimental semiotics of the Harvard institute representing a nomad figure in a usually ortodox environment.</div>
<div><spanid="xnili">@ilinx</span>:<spanid="tilde">~</span>$ <b>Cybernetics</b><br> Defined by Norbert Wiener as the science of control and <aclass="home"href="#"onclick="pppRP('comm', '1000', '800','1000','500')">communication</a> in the animal and the machine, Cybernetics draws on the engineerization of the body seen as a mixture of complex adaptive mechanisms maintaining the bodily states constant, <aclass="home"href="./h.html">homeostasis</a>, and enabling the evolutive process, <aclass="home"href="./h.html">negentropy</a>, in contrast to the entropic decay. The positions embraced by the Cyberneticians leads back to the work of <aclass="home"href="./h.html">Walter Cannon</a> (1926) and before to the scientific study of the steam engine leading to thermodynamics (1824 Sadi Carnot ) and control theory (1867 James Clerk Maxwell): the theory of the feedbak loop. <br><br>
Important polymaths, along with his most influential leaders Warren S. McCulloch and Norbert Wiener, deveveloped the viable idea of building life out of structure instead of substance, breaking the barriers between human and non-human and opening up an horizon of machinic flows-distribution producing <aclass="home"href="./l.html">life</a> from human design. Other directions seems to emphasize the use of cybernetic life to enhance human existence itself and turning toward a paradigm which claims the actuality of <aclass="home"href="./ia.html">intelligence amplification</a>.<br><br>
If these theories treat or not occultists and mystical thematics, is not yet clear as the many influences that made Cybernetics possible blurs the distinction between science and fiction. Furthermore, despite the possible evidences claiming the opposite, the language used by cyberneticians is completely coherent with their scientifical aims leaking echoes of mysticism and religious attitudes only in the various new age commentaries.<br><br>
<div><spanid="xnili">@ilinx</span>:<spanid="tilde">~</span>$ <b>Cybernetics</b><br> Defined by Norbert Wiener as the science of control and <aclass="home"href="#"onclick="pppRP('comm', '1000', '800','1000','500')">communication</a> in the animal and the machine, Cybernetics draws on the engineerization of the body seen as a mixture of complex adaptive mechanisms maintaining the bodily states constant, <aclass="home"href="./h.html">homeostasis</a>, and enabling the evolutive process, negentropy, in contrast to the entropic decay. The positions embraced by the Cyberneticians leads back to the work of <aclass="home"href="./wc.html">Walter Cannon</a> (1926) and before that, to the scientific study of the steam engine leading to thermodynamics (1824 Sadi Carnot ) and control theory (1867 James Clerk Maxwell): the theory of the feedbak loop. <br><br>
Important polymaths, along with their most influential leaders Warren S. McCulloch and Norbert Wiener, deveveloped the viable idea of building life out of structure instead of substance, breaking the barriers between human and non-human and opening up an horizon of machinic flows-distribution producing life from human design. Other directions seems to emphasize the use of cybernetic life to enhance human existence itself and turning toward a paradigm which claims the actuality of intelligence amplification.<br><br>
If these theories treat occultists and mystical thematics or not, is not yet clear as the many influences that made Cybernetics possible blurs the distinction between science and fiction. Furthermore, despite the possible evidences claiming the opposite, the language used by cyberneticians is completely coherent with their scientifical aims leaking echoes of mysticism and religious attitudes only in the various new age commentaries.<br><br>
Following a selection of text of McCulloch and Wiener:
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<li><i><aclass="home"href="http://luisguillermo.com/diosygolem/God_and_Golem_Inc.pdf"onclick="ppp(this, 'gg', '1000', '1000','2000','0')"target="gg">God and Golem, inc.</a></i></li><br>
Cecil Curtis, also rememberd as'Mad Dog' Curtis, has been the first to give an account of <aclass="home"href="nma.html">Nma</a> populations, in particular of the Tak N'ma tribe which was considered the most violent of the indigenous populations of the island and perhaps 'the most unspeakble selvages on earth'. However, his expedition happened in 1883 during the eruption of the Krakatoa, is remembered as an anthropological failure highlighting the lack of a proper cultural framework enabling the communication between modern and ancient culture. In the next century, the account of Curtis expedition ending with his madness and death apparently caused by malaria is become a modern myth shrouded in the deepest mystery.<br><br>
Cecil Curtis, also rememberd as'Mad Dog' Curtis, has been the first to give an account of <aclass="home"href="nma.html">Nma</a> populations, in particular of the Tak N'ma tribe which was considered the most violent of the indigenous populations of the island and perhaps 'the most unspeakble selvages on earth'. However, his expedition happened in 1883 during the eruption of the Krakatoa, and is remembered as an anthropological failure highlighting the lack of a proper cultural framework enabling the communication between modern and ancient culture. In the next century, the account of Curtis expedition ending with his madness and death apparently caused by malaria is become a modern myth shrouded in the deepest mystery.<br><br>
For a more detailed account of Curtis' expedition and experience with the Tak N'ma see the <aclass="home"href="scm.html">Stillwell-Curtis memories</a>.<br><br>
<div><spanid="xnili">@ilinx</span>:<spanid="tilde">~</span>$ <b>Death</b><br> The professor had been striken whilst returning from Java, in Indonesia; falling suddenly, as witnesses said, after his ship reached the territorial water of U.S. Doctors were unable to find any visible disorder, but concluded after perplexed debate that some obscure lesion of the heart, possibly induced by the overload of radio <aclass="home"href="#"onclick="pppRP('comm', '1000', '800','1000','500')">communications</a> received by the ship in the moment of crossing the free waters, has been responsible for the end of a so elderly man. <br><br>
<div><spanid="xnili">@ilinx</span>:<spanid="tilde">~</span>$ <b>Death</b><br> The professor had been striken whilst returning from Java, in Indonesia; falling suddenly, as witnesses said, after his ship had reached the territorial water of the U.S.. Doctors were unable to find any visible disorder, but concluded after perplexed debate that some obscure lesion of the heart, possibly induced by the overload of radio <aclass="home"href="#"onclick="pppRP('comm', '1000', '800','1000','500')">communications</a> received by the ship in the moment of crossing the free waters, had been responsible for the end of a so elderly man. <br><br>
<sup><i>At the time I saw no reason to dissent from this dictum but latterly I am inclined to wonder <br><br>- and more than wonder.</i></sup></div>
<div><spanid="xnili">@ilinx</span>:<spanid="tilde">~</span>$ <b>Linda Trent</b><br>Professor of Fictional Systems at <aclass="home"href="./mvu.html"> MVU</a>, Linda Trent earned a PhD in hyperfiction with a thesis titled “Remaking Reality: The Occult Necromancy of Crowley and the Thelma” and began working at MVU in the late 80s. Studying the loose nature of reality in relation to texts, Dr. Trent taught seminars on <aclass="home"href="./wv.html"> Burroughs</a> and the Lemurs, Libertatia, and others. During the 90s, Dr. Trent was head of the hyperfiction branch of MVU’s crossdisciplinary Stratoanalysis Group, the Time-Lapse Sub-Committee, where she made numerous other contributions. Her fate is currently unknown. Professor Trent worked in Harvard University as assistant to professor <aclass="home"href="./af.html"> Adin Fassrol</a> before moving to the MVU after its creation. This event lead to the rupture of their friendship as the MVU at the time was led by <aclass="home"href="./es.html"> Echidna Stillwell</a> whose work has been profoundly attacked by professor Fassrol for his pseudo-scientifical and occultist influences.
<div><spanid="xnili">@ilinx</span>:<spanid="tilde">~</span>$ <b>Linda Trent</b><br>Professor of Fictional Systems at <aclass="home"href="./mvu.html"> MVU</a>, Linda Trent earned a PhD in hyperfiction with a thesis titled “Remaking Reality: The Occult Necromancy of Crowley and the Thelma” and began working at MVU in the late 80s. Studying the loose nature of reality in relation to texts, Dr. Trent taught seminars on <aclass="home"href="./wv.html"> Burroughs</a> and the Lemurs, Libertatia, and others. During the 90s, Dr. Trent was head of the hyperfiction branch of MVU’s crossdisciplinary Stratoanalysis Group, the Time-Lapse Sub-Committee, where she made numerous other contributions. Her fate is currently unknown. Professor Trent worked in Harvard University as assistant to professor <aclass="home"href="./af.html"> Adin Fassrol</a> before moving to the MVU after its creation. This event lead to the rupture of their friendship as the MVU at the time was led by <aclass="home"href="./es.html"> Echidna Stillwell</a> whose work has been profoundly attacked by professor Fassrol for her pseudo-scientifical and occultist influences.
<div><spanid="xnili">@ilinx</span>:<spanid="tilde">~</span>$ <b>Miskatonic Virtual University (MVU)</b><br>
MVU dates back to the early 1970s, when the N.W. Peaslee Chair in Hydro-History was created for Professor <aclass="home"href="./es.html">Echidna Stillwell</a>. The‘University’ had no campus as such (it still doesn’t) – hence the ‘Virtual’ of its title – but was a loose agglomeration of scholars, most affiliated to other institutions, especially MIT. (Miskatonic had beendescribed as the ‘Shadow MIT’.) What bound them together was a shared interest in the‘hyperfictional’ aspects of the work of H. P. Lovecraft. MVU thus brings together experts in fictionalsystems, mathematics, physics, geology, semiotics: all engaging in strange, crossdisciplinary pollinations that, if they are not actively forbidden, are unsupported in any other academic institution. The University represent the convergence of the Miskatonic University, the Cthulu Club, which account can be found in the <aclass="home"href="./lvs.html">Vysparov-Stillwell corrispondency</a> and the studies of the occultist wing of <aclass="home"href="./ve.html">Virtual Ethnology</a> directed by Stillwell himself. <br><br>
MVU dates back to the early 1970s, when the N.W. Peaslee Chair in Hydro-History was created for Professor <aclass="home"href="./es.html">Echidna Stillwell</a>. The‘University’ had no campus as such (it still doesn’t) – hence the ‘Virtual’ of its title – but was a loose agglomeration of scholars, most affiliated to other institutions, especially MIT. (Miskatonic had beendescribed as the ‘Shadow MIT’.) What bound them together was a shared interest in the‘hyperfictional’ aspects of the work of H. P. Lovecraft. MVU thus brings together experts in fictionalsystems, mathematics, physics, geology, semiotics: all engaging in strange, crossdisciplinary pollinations that, if they are not actively forbidden, are unsupported in any other academic institution. The University representw the convergence of the Miskatonic University, the Cthulu Club, whose account can be found in the <aclass="home"href="./lvs.html">Vysparov-Stillwell corrispondency</a> and the studies of the occultist wing of <aclass="home"href="./ve.html">Virtual Ethnology</a> directed by Stillwell himself. <br><br>
<sup><i>Some say that Miskatonic University is nothing more than a rumour, or a joke. Yet rumours have anunsettling ability to make things happen, and jokes, it is often said, have a serious side. My journey tothe semi-fictional Miskatonic Virtual University hasn’t yielded much that’s definite. But perhaps that’sthe point ...</i></sup>
Peter Vysparov was a Russian émigré, whose family had fled to the USA during the Revolution. The Vysparovs were a reclusive family, shrouded in rumour. Serf legend had it that they had acquired their wealth through ‘abominable magical pacts’. And, sure enough, rumours of occultism followed PeterVysparov into World War II. Coincidentally, Vysparov had been posted to the same theatre where <aclass="home"href="./es.html">Stillwell</a> had done much of her fieldwork. He worked with the Dibboma, the degraded rump of the Dib N'Ma, who were one of the three original <aclass="home"href="./nma.html">N’Ma</a> tribes. It was said that Vysparov had employed ‘unorthodox’ means in his war against the Japanese, using Dibboma sorcerers in a <aclass="home"href="./tw.html">‘magical war’</a>. Since Vysparov's methods highly successful, military High Command were not overly concerned to investigate them. Vysparov is also known as the initiator of the Cthulhu Club and it is only with the recent release of correspondence between Vysparov and Stillwell that the events of the war – which throw a great deal of light on the subsequent development of <aclass="home"href="./ve.html">Virtual Ethnology</a> and the <aclass="home"href="./mvu.html">MVU</a>– have become clearer.
Peter Vysparov was a Russian émigré, whose family had fled to the USA during the Revolution. The Vysparovs were a reclusive family, shrouded in rumour. Serf legend had it that they had acquired their wealth through ‘abominable magical pacts’. And, sure enough, rumours of occultism followed PeterVysparov into World War II. Coincidentally, Vysparov had been posted to the same theatre where <aclass="home"href="./es.html">Stillwell</a> had done much of her fieldwork. He worked with the Dibboma, the degraded rump of the Dib N'Ma, who were one of the three original <aclass="home"href="./nma.html">N’Ma</a> tribes. It was said that Vysparov had employed ‘unorthodox’ means in his war against the Japanese, using Dibboma sorcerers in a <aclass="home"href="./tw.html">‘magical war’</a>. Since Vysparov's methods were highly successful, military High Command was not overly concerned to investigate them. Vysparov is also known as the initiator of the Cthulhu Club and it is only with the recent release of correspondence between Vysparov and Stillwell that the events of the war – which throw a great deal of light on the subsequent development of <aclass="home"href="./ve.html">Virtual Ethnology</a> and the <aclass="home"href="./mvu.html">MVU</a>– have become clearer.
The nightmare experienced by <aclass="home"href="./wb.html">William Burroughs</a> in the private library of <aclass="home"href="./pv.html">Peter Vysparov</a>, rise a series of concerns regarding the acatual on-going 'existence' of a time war. <br><br>
The nightmare experienced by <aclass="home"href="./wb.html">William Burroughs</a> in the private library of <aclass="home"href="./pv.html">Peter Vysparov</a>, rose a series of concerns regarding the acatual on-going 'existence' of a time war. <br><br>
The time is coming apart and – to use his exact words - spiraling out of control. Korzybski’s definition of man as the ‘time-binding animal’ has a double sense, on the one hand, human beings are binding time for themselves: they “can make information available overany length of time to other men through writing”. On the other hand, humans are binding themselves into time, building more of the prison which constrains their affects and perceptions. Time, is a human affliction; not a human invention but a prison." Numerous signs indicate that by the late 1980s the forces supposed to control time as a control technique to enslaves minds, was breaking down in a period of radical transition referred as 'spiral templex'. It was at that time that <aclass="home"href="./af.html">professor Fassrol</a> expedition to the island of <aclass="home"href="./nma.html">Nma</a> took place.</div>
The interest of Cannon for voodoo death can be in part led back to his semi-secret association, the <aclass="home"href="./wcl.html">Wicht Club</a>.<br> Following and extract from <aclass="home"href="./lt.html">Linda Trent</a>'s commentary to Ccru's text <i>Flatlines</i>.
The interest of Cannon for voodoo death can be in part traced back to his semi-secret association, the <aclass="home"href="./wcl.html">Wicht Club</a>.<br> Following and extract from <aclass="home"href="./lt.html">Linda Trent</a>'s commentary to Ccru's text <i>Flatlines</i>.
<i>Walter Cannon has established that self-fulfilling prophecy is a positive-feedback circuit. In his important essay, ‘Voodoo’ Death, Cannon shows that much sorcerous cursing operates by inducing vicious circles of fear (producing more fear(producing more fear) (etc.))) to the point of destroying the organism. To be told you're going to die is therefore, in certain circumstances, quite literally a sentence of death.</i><br><br>
Emerging between the 30s and the 40s, Cyber- or Virtual Ethnology, focuses on the use of software to build digital copies of archeological findings as a primary methodology to the study of cultural diversity. In the early days, this discipline was following an opposite direction based on the application of cybernetic methodologies, in particular, through the use of feedback loops and other mechanisms of self-recurrence to understand certain aspects of specific cultures. he technological value of the early Virtual Ethnology, instead of being a mere support and storage medium of manufactures and evidences(?), it was meant to light up the darkness in certain kinds of rituals of proto-historical tribes that were understood as linguistic enginee s employing complex self-referential mechanisms to assure the production of meaning over generations. <br>T<br>TInfluenced by the advent of anthropology and sociology and the works of James George Frazer (1980), Sigmund Freud (1913), and Marcel Mauss (1925), focusing on rituals and mythological structures, researchers in different disciplines started to observe how these accounts were liable of using subtle systems of control and communication that would be effectively defined only later during the 40s with the birth of Cybernetics. However, during the end of the 70s the introduction of pseudo-scientific and occultists reasearches, such as Echidna Stillwell's work on Mu's folklore, and the opposition of classical institutions interested in preserving their credibility, would lead to a rupture in the discipline. This rupture would finally leads to the formalization of the contemporary approach which reorganizes the technological component as an aid tool instead of structural methodology.<br><br>
Emerging between the 30s and the 40s, Cyber- or Virtual Ethnology, focuses on the use of software to build digital copies of archeological findings as a primary methodology to the study of cultural diversity. In the early days, this discipline was following an opposite direction based on the application of cybernetic methodologies, in particular, through the use of feedback loops and other mechanisms of self-recurrence to understand certain aspects of specific cultures. he technological value of the early Virtual Ethnology, instead of being a mere support and storage medium of manufactures and evidences(?), it was meant to light up the darkness in certain kinds of rituals of proto-historical tribes that were understood as linguistic enginee s employing complex self-referential mechanisms to assure the production of meaning over generations. <br><br>Influenced by the advent of anthropology and sociology and the works of James George Frazer (1980), Sigmund Freud (1913), and Marcel Mauss (1925), focusing on rituals and mythological structures, researchers in different disciplines started to observe how these accounts were liable of using subtle systems of control and communication that would be effectively defined only later during the 40s with the birth of Cybernetics. However, during the end of the 70s the introduction of pseudo-scientific and occultists reasearches, such as Echidna Stillwell's work on Mu's folklore, and the opposition of classical institutions interested in preserving their credibility, would lead to a rupture in the discipline. This rupture would finally leads to the formalization of the contemporary approach which reorganizes the technological component as an aid tool instead of structural methodology.<br><br>
<aclass="home"href="./wc.html"> Walter Cannon</a>
The American novelist, occultist, drug addicts, and primary figure of the Beat Generation William S. Burroughs II (1914 - 1997) represents the breaking point in a story not yet clear at all. 'Sensitive informations' published by the non-exsistent CCRU, spin-off of the <aclass="home"href="./mvu.html">MVU</a>, seem to indicate Burroughs involvement in an occult <aclass="home"href="./mvu.html">time war</a> which would explain the 'paranoid-chronomaniac hallucination' appearing in his late wiritings. The information described in CCRU publications trace back an initial meeting occurred in 1958 at the private library of <aclass="home"href="./pv.html">Peter Vysparov</a> in Paris, where, because of his evident interest in the convergence of sorcery, dreams and fiction, Burroughs was invited. However, cryptical events outlined as 'paranormal phenomena', would have triggered Burroughs in experiencing a paradoxical time experience leading him to a radical shift characterized by the use of cut-up techniques ment to develope theories intertwining virology, language and control with an increasing paranoia and mystical allucinations of a time disgregation, turning his well established practice into a ghetto of literary experimentation.<br><br>
The American novelist, occultist, drug addict and primary figure of the Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs II (1914 - 1997), represents the breaking point in a story not yet clear at all. 'Sensitive informations' published by the non-exsistent CCRU, a spin-off of the <aclass="home"href="./mvu.html">MVU</a>, seems to indicate Burroughs involvement in an occult <aclass="home"href="./mvu.html">time war</a>, which would explain the 'paranoid-chronomaniac hallucination' appearing in his late wiritings. The information described in CCRU's publications trace back an initial meeting which occurred in 1958 at the private library of <aclass="home"href="./pv.html">Peter Vysparov</a> in Paris, where, because of his evident interest in the convergence of sorcery, dreams and fiction, Burroughs was invited. However, cryptical events outlined as 'paranormal phenomena', would have triggered Burroughs in experiencing a paradoxical time experience. After this event a radical shift happened in Burroughs practice. His new approach was characterized by the use of cut-up techniques meant to develope theories intertwining virology, language and control with an increasing paranoia and mystical hallucinations of time disgregation, turning his well established practice into a ghetto of literary experimentation.<br><br>
Walter Bradford Cannon was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. His work on understanding the auto-regulatory system in living beings, coining the term <aclass="home"href="#"onclick="ppp('./h.html', '1000', '800','1000','500')"><b>homeostasis</b></a>, will become one of the fundaments of Cybernetics giving the possibility to a deeper study of autoregulation and its simulations in technical systems as adaptive autonomous machines. His work is considered the first to explicitly connect cybernetics to virtual anthropology through the study of the phenomena of <aclass="home"href="#"onclick="ppp('./vd.html', '1000', '800','1000','500')">Voodoo Death</a>. Cannon is also the founder of the <aclass="home"href="wcl.html">Wicht Club</a>, a secret associations operating in Harvard. <br><br>
Walter Bradford Cannon was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. His work on understanding the auto-regulatory system in living beings, coining the term <aclass="home"href="#"onclick="ppp('./h.html', '1000', '800','1000','500')"><b>homeostasis</b></a>, will become one of the fundaments of Cybernetics giving the possibility to a deeper study of autoregulation and its simulations in technical systems as adaptive autonomous machines. His work is considered the first to explicitly connect cybernetics to virtual anthropology through the study of the phenomena of <aclass="home"href="#"onclick="ppp('./vd.html', '1000', '800','1000','500')">Voodoo Death</a>. Cannon is also the founder of the <aclass="home"href="wcl.html">Wicht Club</a>, a secret associations operating at Harvard. <br><br>
The Wicht Club (1903 to 1911) has been founded by <aid="home"href="./wc.html">Walter Cannon</a> and his collegue G. W. Pierce, pioneer in the developement of electronic telecommunication, as a semi-secret and self-assembled associations revolving around Harvard University and whose members and aims are, in part, still secret. To shed light on this private club it is necessary to understand the origin of its name, in fact, 'wicht' refers to the german word 'wichtel', in english 'wight' which <i>''is a creature or living sentient being also called 'restless soul'. In its original usage, the word wight described a living human being, but has also come to be used within fantasy and gothic literature to describe certain undead or zombies"</i>. Following this direction the Wicht Club seems to be involved in the scientific study of a new kind of human understood as zombie, a position that will later become epurated from its fantastical myst and transferred in the idea of the cybernetic machinery and the parallel birth of the post-human perspective.<br><br>
During the 40's <aid="home"href="./af.html">Professor Fassrol</a>, which had access to Harvard's archives found some hidden records of the Wicht Club and published one of the firsts account of the people and guests involved in the associations, wuch as <aid="home"href="./wj.html">William James</a>.<br><br>
During the 40's <aid="home"href="./af.html">Professor Fassrol</a>, who had access to Harvard's archives found some hidden records of the Wicht Club and published one of the firsts account of the people and guests involved in the associations, such as <aid="home"href="./wj.html">William James</a>.<br><br>
William James (1842-1910) is considered both 'the Father of American psychology' and one of the most influential philosopher of his time establishing along with Charles S. Peirce the philosophical school called Pragmatism. During his career he interacted with a wide array of writers and scholars, such as Sigmund Freud and Carl G. Jung, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, but he is also rememberd as one of the three axis of process philosophy along with Henri Bergson and Alfred N. Whitehead. Behind this well known biography, James did important work on religion investigating the mystical experience and experimenting with drugs (chloral hydrate, amyl nitrite, <aclass="home"href="./no2.html">nitrous oxide</a>, and peyote). James claimed that it was only when he was under the influence of nitrous oxide that he was able to understand Hegel. This work leads him to start the first American psychedelic movement which later has been continued by <aclass="home"href="./wb.html">William Burroughs</a>.<br>
William James (1842-1910) is considered both 'the Father of American psychology' and one of the most influential philosophers of his time. James established, along with Charles S. Peirce, the philosophical school called Pragmatism. During his career he interacted with a wide array of writers and scholars, such as Sigmund Freud and Carl G. Jung, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, but he is also rememberd as one of the key figures, together with Henri Bergson and Alfred N. Whitehead, in process philosophy. Behind his well known biography, James did important work on religion, investigating the mystical experience and experimenting with drugs (chloral hydrate, amyl nitrite, <aclass="home"href="./no2.html">nitrous oxide</a>, and peyote). James claimed that it was only when he was under the influence of nitrous oxide that he was able to understand Hegel. This work leads him to start the first American psychedelic movement, which was later continued by <aclass="home"href="./wb.html">William Burroughs</a>.<br>
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From the archives of Harvard University, dugged out and published by professor <aclass="home"href="./af.html">Adin Fassrol</a>, it appears that William James partecipated as 'special' guest to sveral meetings of the <aclass="home"href="./wcl.html">Wicht Club</a> led by <aclass="home"href="./wc.html">Walter Cannon</a>. However, it is still uncertain on which extent James influenced the extracurricular activity of this secret congregation.
From the archives of Harvard University, dugged out and published by professor <aclass="home"href="./af.html">Adin Fassrol</a>, it appears that William James partecipated as 'special' guest to several meetings of the <aclass="home"href="./wcl.html">Wicht Club</a> led by <aclass="home"href="./wc.html">Walter Cannon</a>. However, it is still uncertain in which extent James influenced the extracurricular activity of this secret congregation.
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<h2>Disclaimer</h2>
<p>The story you're reading is a work of theory-fiction based on the concept of 'pataphysiscs' and/or 'hyperstition' where the characters and events, real or fictional, are considered equally existent sources of change in our reality.</p><br>
<h2>Context</h2>
<p>This project is the practical continuation of my MA thesis <i><ahref="./media/pdfs/OHE.pdf">Out-of-Hardware Experience: Consciousness and Software</a></i> where software is understood in its capacity to provide a spatio-temporal matrix on top of which a self can experience a new phenomenal world. Furthermore, at the end of the thesis I introduce the concept of 'language maze' as the intertwining of languages intended as all the symbolic signifiers which characterize both humans and machines symbolic grounds. Ilinx is the practical attempt to represent this theories, a new world of experience existing in the convergence of consciousness and software, of natural languages and computer codes.</p><br>
<h2>Credits</h2>
<h3>Main Narrative</h3>
<p>The story of Ilinx takes place in the (theory-)fictional universe created by the Cybernetic Culture Research Units (CCRU) which is itself based on the fictional universe of H. P. Lovecraft. For the main narrative I've mostly re-edited and mixed Lovecraft's text <i>'The Call of the Cthulhu'</i> with the part-2 of <i>'Ccru Writings 1997-2003'</i> called 'Cthulhu Club' in the edition published by Time Spiral Press in 2015. The concept of ilinx, however, comes from a different source, the text 'Man, Play and Games' on game theory by Roger Caillois.</p>
alert("The following texts are part of a personal existential search for knowledge where authorship got lost. I don't remember anymore what texts did I write and what was already written, what did I mix and which word I've taken from where. I'll provide a bibliography and credits trying to sum up what I remember but the result is a maze where my hand abandon any interest in finding a way out...Maybe you will find yours.");
<divid="t8"class="txt">Trent was oblivious to Fassrol's expedition to the N'ma island and profoundly shocked, she explained me that 20 years before they were close friends but a series of events that culminated with the foundation of the <aclass="textinl"href="./01/mvu.html"onclick="ppp(this, 'mvu', '1200', '1000','2000','0')"target="mvu">Miskatonic Virtual University</a>, in the early 70s led to their complete separation.</div>
<divid="t9"class="txt">She was particularly disturbed by the fact that despite his well-known opposition to <aclass="textinl"href="./01/es.html"onclick="ppp(this, 'es', '1000', '230','500','600')"target="es">Echidna Stillwell</a>'s methods, the professor was following exactly the trails left behind by Stillwell himself fifty years before, and that after that trails he started to chase the footprints of <aclass="textinl"href="./01/cc.html"onclick="ppp(this, 'cc', '1000', '230','500','600')"target="cc">Cecil Curtis</a> managing to trace back the original location of the Katak temple. The same temple where the legent of 'Mad Dog' Curtis blurs into total madness</a>.</div>
<divid="t10"class="txt">After a more detailed observation of the encraved stone, Linda's face contracted in an even more gloomy and thoughtful expression mumbling apparently disconnected words. Later she explained to me that in Stillwell account on Mu's folklore there is a story concerning a certain <aclass="textinl"href="./01/t.html"onclick="ppp(this, 't', '1000', '230','500','600')"target="t">Tchattuk</a> stealing something from Katak and that probably Fassrol belived that Ilinx was what Nma tribes called what-is-lost. Linda continued explaining how in N'ma animism the function of their cerimonies based on dream sorcery are ment to re-enact Tchattuk's stealing, with the belief that the splitting of the cosmical order of time produced a multi-temporal matrix, or templex, permitting the Old Ones to flow in different directions and not collapse in a single point, called by them, Teotwawki<aid="ttwwk"class="textinl"href="./katak_temple.html">·</a></div>
After a more detailed observation of the encraved stone, Linda's face contracted in an even more gloomy and thoughtful expression mumbling apparently disconnected words. Later she explained to me that in Stillwell account on Mu's folklore there is a story concerning a certain <aclass="textinl"href="./01/t.html"onclick="ppp(this, 't', '1000', '230','500','600')"target="t">Tchattuk</a> stealing something from Katak and that probably Fassrol belived that Ilinx was what Nma tribes called what-is-lost. Linda continued explaining how in N'ma animism the function of their cerimonies based on dream sorcery are ment to re-enact Tchattuk's stealing, with the belief that the splitting of the cosmical order of time produced a multi-temporal matrix, or templex, permitting the Old Ones to flow in different directions and not collapse in a single point, called by them, Teotwawki.
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<divid="t13"class="txt">My meeting with professor Trent opened my eyes, indeed the object I came across in my uncles belonging was supposed to be the key of some sort of ancient belief whose secret he never managed to reveal. I'm still wondering on which extent all this story is true, however I can't forget how all the knowledge Trent passed me started to infect my consciousness leading all my being to think that for no reason I should have let this story evaporate and that in some sort of wired way I was already meant to follow my uncle's paths to the Katak temple and unravel what is hidden beyond the mystery of Ilinx.</div>
<divid="t8"class="txt">Trent was oblivious to Fassrol's expedition to the N'ma island and profoundly shocked, she explained me that 20 years before they were close friends but a series of events that culminated with the foundation of the <aclass="textinl"href="./01/mvu.html"onclick="ppp(this, 'mvu', '1200', '1000','2000','0')"target="mvu">Miskatonic Virtual University</a>, in the early 70s led to their complete separation.</div>
<divid="t9"class="txt">She was particularly disturbed by the fact that despite his well-known opposition to <aclass="textinl"href="./01/es.html"onclick="ppp(this, 'es', '1000', '230','500','600')"target="es">Echidna Stillwell</a>'s methods, the professor was following exactly the trails left behind by Stillwell himself fifty years before, and that after that trails he started to chase the footprints of <aclass="textinl"href="./01/cc.html"onclick="ppp(this, 'cc', '1000', '230','500','600')"target="cc">Cecil Curtis</a> managing to trace back the original location of the Katak temple. The same temple where the legent of 'Mad Dog' Curtis blurs into total madness</a>.</div>
After a more detailed observation of the encraved stone, Linda's face contracted in an even more gloomy and thoughtful expression mumbling apparently disconnected words. Later she explained to me that in Stillwell account on Mu's folklore there is a story concerning a certain <aclass="textinl"href="./01/t.html"onclick="ppp(this, 't', '1000', '230','500','600')"target="t">Tchattuk</a> stealing something from Katak and that probably Fassrol belived that Ilinx was what Nma tribes called what-is-lost. Linda continued explaining how in N'ma animism the function of their cerimonies based on dream sorcery are ment to re-enact Tchattuk's stealing, with the belief that the splitting of the cosmical order of time produced a multi-temporal matrix, or templex, permitting the Old Ones to flow in different directions and not collapse in a single point, called by them, Teotwawki.
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<divid="t10"class="txt">After a more detailed observation of the encraved stone, Linda's face contracted in an even more gloomy and thoughtful expression mumbling apparently disconnected words. Later she explained to me that in Stillwell account on Mu's folklore there is a story concerning a certain <aclass="textinl"href="./01/t.html"onclick="ppp(this, 't', '1000', '230','500','600')"target="t">Tchattuk</a> stealing something from Katak and that probably Fassrol belived that Ilinx was what Nma tribes called what-is-lost. Linda continued explaining how in N'ma animism the function of their cerimonies based on dream sorcery are ment to re-enact Tchattuk's stealing, with the belief that the splitting of the cosmical order of time produced a multi-temporal matrix, or templex, permitting the Old Ones to flow in different directions and not collapse in a single point, called by them, Teotwawki<aid="ttwwk"class="textinl"href="./katak_temple.html">·</a></div>
