Andrew Sage

There's a mix of motivations at play here.

Same thing with Robert Anton Wilson, which I'm sure you've heard.

Robert Evans talked about before.

These were contemporaries.

These guys were friends and operating under similar goals of disrupting culture through these techniques, which they thought literally disrupted the linear flow of culture or mechanisms of control, such as language and linear time, which later gets developed on by Landon Fisher.

That sound and image have occult power, which is very true in a lot of magical traditions dating back to the Picatrix and more ancient texts.

It's something that you can do with a tape recorder.

And this is based on forms like social engineering and the manipulation of the reproduction of reality, which Burroughs believes language plays a key role in, even though I might disagree with him in a few ways on the nature of language as a human concept versus this alien concept, which is infected the human.

Delta, you should explain what the cut-up method is.

yes um well the the name itself kind of is self-explanatory but the idea being essentially to take any form of texts or writing cut up the words or pieces of sentences jumble them up in a hat or a bucket or whatever and then kind of like play a jigsaw puzzle with uh language

reshifting sentences into new ideas and new forms of poetry especially which i'm just looking at my own cut-ups right in front of me to force like randomized combinations of words that you would not choose to combine on your own volition and seeing what sort of thought that generates what kind of meaning can be constructed through that combination exactly

Words from like the future or the past presenting themselves into a current present within the book.

Yeah, I think one of the Burroughs quotes is, when you cut into the present, the future leaks out.

Which is related to the concept of time sorcery that was talked about towards the end of that discussion.

I think another element to the cut-up method that's important, especially as it was framed in this culture context, as I wrote this quote down from the actual lecture itself, reality is made of words, images, and vibrations.

Sounds and images have occult power, and therefore these sounds and images and words can be marshaled or used, edited, cut through, rearranged, for the purposes of reprogramming.

It's fascinating because I think that this really is something that...

carries through to the whole conference.

And not just the Burroughs method, but what this Burroughs method or the Burroughsian current of the conference, it seems that there was a problematic, I mean, we started basically with Derrida and we ended with Derrida.

With discussions of like critiques of the master narrative that we get from, you know, Deleuze and Lyotard and Baudrillard and these people.