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Friday, July 31, 2015

Bob Dobbs Reads Alan Cabal

Alan Cabal, 2010

Alan Cabal is an American journalist and occultist who has written for New York Press, High Times magazine, CounterPunch, and other publications.

In the Nineties, he performed in the band White Courtesy Telephone. His tenure at the New York Press concluded in 2005 when he resigned in response to Matt Taibbi's controversial satire titled “The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope.”

Off and on from 1979 to the early 1990s, Cabal worked at The Magickal Childe in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, an occult shop founded in the mid-1970s as the Warlock Shop by Herman Slater; the shop went out of business in the late-1990s. Cabal was described in Christopher Knowles’ book Our Gods Wear Spandex as a luminary of the occult scene in New York City, which Cabal had profiled in the New York Press essay titled “The Doom that Came to Chelsea,” when he also shared that he was involved with the administration of the “Caliphate” version of Aleister Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis for nearly twenty years. Wikipedia

Below: Bob Dobbs reads from Alan Cabal’s articles at Splice Today.

28 February 2015
Reading begins at 17:36

7 March 2015
Reading begins at 18:32

21 March 2015
Reading begins at 15:51

Part 1
Reading begins at 16:41
Part 2
11 April 2015

23 May 2015

Part 1
Reading begins at 39:02
Part 2
continues at 45:32
Part 3
30 May 2015

6 June 2015
Reading begins at 6:44

Part 1
Reading begins at 18:39
Part 2
4 July 2015

11 July 2015
Reading begins at 29:23

Part 1
Reading begins at 28:02
Part 2
18 July 2015

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Marshall McLuhan | Nihilism Exposed, Review of Wyndham Lewis by Hugh Kenner

What Youth

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21 July 2015

Nihilism, the Cartesian split, Nietzsche, “dissociation of sensibility”, Neoplatonism, the Romantics and the symbolists, the Catholic doctrine of the body-soul composite, the doctrine of preexistence, Paganism, mechanistic materialism, Berkleyan idealism, Thomas Hobbs and Karl Marx, Descartes and John Dewey, Pythagorean and neo-Platonic doctrine, existentialism, Bergson philosophy, Cartesian and Plotinian angelism, humanism, positivism, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, spiritual metamorphosis and gnosticism.

Brush up on these terms and philosophers mentioned by McLuhan in this short essay to get a better understanding of his review.

Hugh Kenner

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In 1948, twenty-five-year-old Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) took a long drive with Marshall McLuhan from Toronto, where McLuhan had taught Kenner as an undergraduate, to Yale, where Kenner was writing his dissertation on James Joyce. Along the way they stopped at St Elizabeth’s Hospital, in Washington, to meet the mad, treasonous poet Ezra Pound. Pound’s was “the most active mind I have ever experienced,” Kenner later said; “I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism.” Pound told Kenner that he had an “ob-li-ga-tion” to travel and visit the great people of his time, and he did so, becoming a friend and interlocutor of not only Pound, but Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and even cartoonist Chuck Jones and inventor Buckminster Fuller.

McLuhan’s influence on his style was tremendous, but Kenner would always return from sweeping histories to tiny details, individual writers and books and phrases, and above all people. In his last book, The Elsewhere Community (1998), he observes that the Internet, while it could not replace the direct presence of a teacher, “offers something one-on-one presence does not: access to any mentor who has a computer, anywhere in the world. Media always offers gains, though offset by losses.”

Pornosophy

Monday, July 13, 2015

Bob Dobbs’ Bottom Up Chart

BOTTOM/UP IDENTITY—THE CULTURAL HERO (IN THE WEST)


GROUND FIGURES
SECRET GOVERNMENTPOPULAR ARTFORM HIGHBROW ARTFORM TECHNOLOGICAL ARTFORM POPULAR ARCHETYPE
(User as Monarch of)
GHETTO
(Drop-out)
SYMPTOMS
GLOBAL VILLAGE
Phonetic Alphabet & PapyrusChristPlato & AristotleSpoken WordTribeFamilyCaesar
Print (Movable Type) ShakespeareFrancis BaconManuscriptVillageTribeLuther
Industrial Revolution Dickens Darwin, Marx Printed BookTownVillageLuddites
Electronic Revolution Joyce Einstein, Freud NewspaperCityTownAl Capone
GLOBAL THEATER
Television a) Elvis
b) Fellini
Existentialism a) Radio
b) Movies
NationCityMcCarthyism
Computer a) Beatles
b) Psychedelia
a) Norman Mailer
b) Marshall McLuhan
a) B&W TV
b) Color TV
PlanetNationJFK Assassination
Satellite a) Punk Rock/New Wave
b) Sat. Night Live
c) Cults
a) Club of Rome
b) Club of Life
c) Genetic Engineering
a) Computer
b & c) Mixed Corporate-Media
Solar SystemPlanetWatergate
Second Coming Ronald Reagan & Pope John Paul II Furry Lint Mass ManUniverseOuter SpaceBattle of the Harvest Moon

Bob Dobbs’ Top Down Chart

TOP/DOWN IDENTITY—POWER BUREAUCRACY (IN THE WEST)


GROUND FIGURES
SECRET GOVERNMENT POPULAR GOVERNMENT (FRONT) TECHNOLOGICAL GOVERNMENT SYMPTOMS
GLOBAL VILLAGE
1. Illuminati 30 A.D.RomeSpoken WordSlaughter of Christians
2. Venice 1500 House of HapsburgManuscriptSpanish Inquisition/Armada
3. Fondo (Family Trust) 1840 Britain Printed Book Napoleon/
Railway-War/
WWI/Decentralize
Monarchies
4. World (League of Nations) 1918 America Newspaper Hitler/Stalin/Radio-War/WW2/
Decentralize Western Empires
GLOBAL THEATER
5. Solar (U.N.) 1945 National (Earth Stage) Radio/Movies Cold War/TV-War/WW3/Decentralize World Government
6. Laser Beam 1960 World (Solar Stage) Television Pollution/Decentralize
Solar Government
7. Mass Man 1977 Solar (Universe Stage) Computer Star Wars/Decentralize Universal Government/Left Hemisphere vs Right Hemisphere
8. Second Coming (Today) Universal (Mythic Stage) Satellite Devil vs God/State vs Church/Armageddon

Bob Dobbs’ Formula Chart


CO-EVOLUTIONARY ANTICIPATORY MIMESIS <EQUALS> How the media archetypes
fit the battle of Jericho
in American Politics
ALP SHEM SHAUN ISSY HCE
½ STAGEActors (retrievals/interiorization)other ½ stage
BOTTOM-UP GROUND (EFFECTS PROCEDING CAUSES)TECHNOLOGICAL/
CULTURAL ENEMY
TECHNOLOGICAL/
WEAPONRY
ANTHROPOMORPHIC SOCIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL MASK/LAGTOP-DOWN BUREAUCRATIC GROUND
(“CAUSES” MERGING WITH EFFECTS)
TELEGRAPH USURY/MONARCHY MANUFACTURERS WASHINGTON (1776) 1750-1800
lockdown CENTRALIZATION
MOVIES NEWSPAPER PRINTED BOOK JEFFERSON (1810) 1800-1840
lockdown INDUSTRIAL GOVT
RADIO TELEGRAPH ORATORY LINCOLN (1860) 1840-1900
lockdown ELECTRICAL GOVT
TELEVISION MOVIES RADIO/TELEPHONE ROOSEVELT (1932) 1900-1918
lockdown ½ WORLD GOVT
COMPUTER & ATOM BOMB AUTOMOBILE QUARKTUNE
(CARTOON/QUARK)
KENNEDY (1960) 1918-1945
lockdown OTHER ½ WORLD GOVT
SATELLITE & LASER BEAM TELEVISION AIRPLANE NIXON (1968) 1945-1960
lockdown SOLAR GOVT
HOLEOPATHIC
CLICHE-PROBES
COMPUTER & ATOM BOMB TELEVISION REAGAN (1980) 1960-1977
lockdown UNIVERSAL GOVT
ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHYSICAL SATELLITE & LASER BEAM COMPUTERS & ATOM BOMB PEROT (1992) 1977-1992
lockdown MYTHIC GOVT
////////////// HOLEOPATHIC
CLICHE-PROBES
SATELLITE & LASER BEAM ME (2012) 1990-2020
lockdown BOBRULE