Will the Real Whitley Strieber Please Stand Up?

[guruilla]

Rounding off summing up piece, "The Thing from Inner Space". Full PDF here.

[Plutonia]

Hello again, Riggers!

I am looking for one or more keeners who would be willing to write-up some kind of response to Jason's Prisoner of Infinity material for Wyrd Daze - a new zine edited by Leigh Wright and endorsed by John Coulthart. Leigh has generously offered several pages for written material plus invites related media - audio, visual or graphic arts.

(I'm Mrs Horsley for those who don't know, and lead researcher for the project. )

Another possibility is to simply reproduce the relevant passages of this this thread, which I just re-read and is a fascinating artifact in it's own right. Of course I would seek permissions before doing that.

Or, Riggers may want to create something collectively and submit as such - I must admit that the possibility of an active, collaborative, conceptual art arm of the Rig Int body is appealing to me... ?

And just so you know, the website crucialfictions.com is meant to serve as a kind of conceptual art installation space - I see the POI material as precisely that. Eventually, hopefully, the POI installation will be replaced with something else.

Thanks good people!

Links:
Crucial Fictions featuring The Prisoner of Infinity: http://crucialfictions.com/
Wyrd Daze: http://wyrddaze.wordpress.com/

PS: Anyone curious about Jason's recent scribblings may be interested in the piece he wrote, How Am I Not Myself? Philip K. Dick, The Autism Connection, that's been published in the Dec 2013 issue of PKD Otaku: http://www.philipkdickfans.com/resource ... pkd-otaku/

[elfismiles]

VERY APPEALING! Thanks Plut!

Hello again, Riggers!

I am looking for one or more keeners who would be willing to write-up some kind of response to Jason's Prisoner of Infinity material for Wyrd Daze - a new zine edited by Leigh Wright and endorsed by John Coulthart. Leigh has generously offered several pages for written material plus invites related media - audio, visual or graphic arts.

(I'm Mrs Horsley for those who don't know, and lead researcher for the project. )

Another possibility is to simply reproduce the relevant passages of this this thread, which I just re-read and is a fascinating artifact in it's own right. Of course I would seek permissions before doing that.

Or, Riggers may want to create something collectively and submit as such - I must admit that the possibility of an active, collaborative, conceptual art arm of the Rig Int body is appealing to me... ?

And just so you know, the website crucialfictions.com is meant to serve as a kind of conceptual art installation space - I see the POI material as precisely that. Eventually, hopefully, the POI installation will be replaced with something else.

Thanks good people!

Links:
Crucial Fictions featuring The Prisoner of Infinity: http://crucialfictions.com/
Wyrd Daze: http://wyrddaze.wordpress.com/

PS: Anyone curious about Jason's recent scribblings may be interested in the piece he wrote, How Am I Not Myself? Philip K. Dick, The Autism Connection, that's been published in the Dec 2013 issue of PKD Otaku: http://www.philipkdickfans.com/resource ... pkd-otaku/

[Plutonia]

Thanks elf!

So far no volunteers.

Now inviting one word responses.

For example "Pow!" or "Elaborately disturbing."

[justdrew]

I can at least submit right now a "theme song"

[guruilla]

Maybe your new avatar is scaring them away...

[NeonLX]

Sideline, sort of: I only recently became aware of Philip K. Dick's works. Beginning in the 1960s, I have been an avid reader/viewer of sci-fi but for whatever reason, never read any of Dick's stuff. I haven't even seen any of the movies that are more or less based on his writing (no Blade Runner, No Matrix...).

But over the past year, I've become obsessed with him. I started with Valis, which simply shocked the hell out of me. It turned me inside out. I found myself simultaneously dreading and longing to start the next PKD story or book. His stuff really shakes me up.

While reading the PKD article on the fan site (linked above), I had several "AHA!" moments. I'm starting to think that my fear (and fascination) of his writing probably stems from the fact that it seems all too familiar to me.

[Plutonia]

Thanks Drew!

Can You Travel In The Dark Alone? That song was originally released in 1969, so right around the time of WS's London adventures, which is great! An excellent contribution. Did you read how they got screwed by Capitol Records? Gah! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf_% ... an_band%29

I can at least submit right now a "theme song"

[Plutonia]

What r u talkin bout?! Every body loves zombies!

Maybe your new avatar is scaring them away...

[Plutonia]

Dick takes some people that way, Neon - a kind of quasi-religious psychic abduction that transforms them into Dick-heads <-- as they self-identify.

Sideline, sort of: I only recently became aware of Philip K. Dick's works. Beginning in the 1960s, I have been an avid reader/viewer of sci-fi but for whatever reason, never read any of Dick's stuff. I haven't even seen any of the movies that are more or less based on his writing (no Blade Runner, No Matrix...).

But over the past year, I've become obsessed with him. I started with Valis, which simply shocked the hell out of me. It turned me inside out. I found myself simultaneously dreading and longing to start the next PKD story or book. His stuff really shakes me up.

While reading the PDK article on the fan site (linked above), I had several "AHA!" moments. I'm starting to think that my fear (and fascination) of his writing probably stems from the fact that it seems all too familiar to me.

[Searcher08]

Thanks elf!

So far no volunteers.

Now inviting one word responses.

For example "Pow!" or "Elaborately disturbing."

Please post a link that will take me to the article or cut and paste it here.

[Plutonia]

Thanks elf!

So far no volunteers.

Now inviting one word responses.

For example "Pow!" or "Elaborately disturbing."

Please post a link that will take me to the article or cut and paste it here.

No problem S08 - the site that houses the pdfs, audios and related media is: http://crucialfictions.com/

Just the pdfs: THE PRISONER OF INFINITY

Intro: Parented by the UFO > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... Bottle.pdf
I. Heaven Stormers > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... nity-1.pdf
II: Archetypal Traumatogenic Agency > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... nity-2.pdf
III: A Life Full of Holes > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... nity-3.pdf
IV: The Infinite Infant > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... nity-4.pdf
V: The Secret Guardian > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... nity-5.pdf
VI: Martian Dreams > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... nity-6.pdf
VII: All Work & No Play > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... nity-7.pdf
VIII: A Wound in the Soul > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... nity-8.pdf
IX: Padre Nostro Castrato > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... nity-9.pdf
X: Passport to Manchuria > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... ity-10.pdf
XI: Motherland or Neverland > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... ity-11.pdf
XII: Crucial Fiction > http://crucialfictions.com/wp-content/u ... ity-12.pdf

Ugh! I'd forgotten how immense it is!!

Also, I found a review of Wyrd Daze at Amazing Stories if anyone want more info about that: http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2013/11/am ... rd-daze-1/

[guruilla]

It is immense, and this is only part one!

But each chapter is somewhat self-sufficient, so responses can be to a single chapter and still be perfectly valid.

This op could be quite symmetrical, because the whole POI project began as a response to Jeff Kripal's short essay "The Traumatic Secret:
Bataille and the Comparative Erotics of Mystical Literature."

[Hammer of Los]

...
Hi guys.

There's rather a lot to read there.
...

[Plutonia]

Hi HoL!

Yes. But each chapter can pretty much stand on it's own. Of course, it's so engrossing that if you read one, you'll want to read more.

Think of it this way:

Q: Does trauma accelerate human evolution?
A: POI