Territory I . Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poe'try, ed. by Ezra Pound, $1.25: • City Lights Books . • 1562 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94133 "A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exist in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points, of actions, cross-sections cut .through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, abstract motion, be possible •in nature. The eye sees noun and ·verb as one: things in motion, motion in things." "All processes in nature are interrelated; and thus there could be no complete sentence (according to this definition) save one which it would take all time to pronounce." An-introductory trip through the difference between a phonetic (English) and a symbol/image language like Chinese. ""1 * Man+ fire= messmate. The Morning of the Magician, by Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier, Avon Books, $1.25 • "We are not thinking of an organized society, but of the establishment of the necessary contacts between exceptional minds, and a common language, not secret, but merely inaccessible to ordinary men at a given epoch in time.... The fate of the world could be discussed 1 openly by t·en scientist.sin the presence of Khruschev and the president of the United States without these gentlemen being able to understand a·sin.gle word. The Art ofAwareness J. Samuel Bois Wm. C. Brown Co. Dubuque, IA One of the best interpreters of Korzybski. Science and Sanity, by Alfred Korzybski Internatiqnal Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Co. Lakeville, CT 06039 The Institute was formed in 1938 by Korzybski. They publish a good journal, the General Semantics Bulletin. The last issue had two good articles, one by Gregory Bateson, the other a summary of the work of Wittgenstein. ETC, a review of general semantics J;>.O. Box 2469 San Francisco, CA 94126 $6~yr. The other primary semantics rev1.ew. Understanding Media, by Marshall McLuhan, McGraw-Hill Still mind-opening. "Henri Bergson lived and wrote in a tradition of thought in which it was and is considered that language is a human technology that has impaired and diminished the values of the collective uneonscious. It is the extension of man in speech that enables the intellect to detach itself from the vastly wider reality. Without language, Bergson suggests, human intelligence would have remained totally involved in the objects of its attention. "The breaking up of every kind of experience into uniform units in order to produce faster action and change of form (applied knowledge) has been the secret of Western power over man and nature alike . . . . " The Blue and Brown Books, by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Harper Torchbooks, $1.4S "Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms ff expression exert upon us." Language, Thought and Reality, Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf M.I.T. Press 28 Carleton St. Cambridge, MA 02142 The basic introduction to comparative language studies; especially fascinating studies of Native American languages. ._ ' <'@J Water+ revolve withi~ a circle=eddy. "The Aesthetics of Silence," in Styles of Radical Will, by Susan Sontag, Delta . Books A good essay on meaning of prolonged, pregnant and necessary silences-:-lots of overlaps with works of John Cage. "Everyone has experience how, when punctuated by long silences, words weigh more; they become almost palpable. Or how, when one talks less: one begins feeling more fully one's ,physical presence in a given space. Silence undermines 'bad speech,' by which I mean dissociated speech-speech dissociated from the body (and therefore from • feeling), speech not organically informed by the sensuous presence and concrete particularity of the speaker and by the individual-occasion for using language. Unmoored from the b_ody, speech deteriorates. Silence can inhibit or counteract this tendency, providing a kind of ballast, monitoring and even correcting language when it becomes inauthentic." Dec 1975 RAIN Page 17 MEDIA continued from page 15 Northwest Alternative Communications Directory 454 Willamette St. Eugene, OR 97401 $1.00, checks, to Communitype. Putting out directories as results of conferences getting better all the while. This one lists the 150 people who attended.the· June 27-29 conference held at Evergreen State College, and then fills in the holes with people, media groups, etc., who did not attend the conference. If you want to reach other people through the multiplicity of small presses, information centers, information freaks, listener-supported radio, video, ham radio, here's a good place to begin. EUBLIC INTERES~ Environment Improvement Case History Report Service Freed Publishing Co. P.O. Box 1144, FDR Station New York, NY 10022 A good source of information on p·ro- • 1grams/projects throughout the U.S. in •areas of resource recovery, energy, urban rehabilitation and more. Usually • has contained items I don't see elsewhere (among the 200 magazines we get every montH). A for-more-information format.•They also publish Land Pollution Reporter and two land pollution organization and agency directories ($10 each). Subscription to Case History is $35/yr., Land Pollution Reporter $25/yr. • Science for the People SESPA 16 Union Square Somerville, MA 02).43 With chapters throughout the country, this consortium seeks to lay out ethical considerations in scientific research, as well as general implications of directions ,of various disciplines. The magazine is • mostly essay style discussions of issues. $15 institutions; memberships $12, and some one-by-one sliding scale rates. Continued on page 18
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