An Apology and Notes

Once more I am indisposed. I've had a nasty relapse. Of course I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, but there's nothing I can do but program this virtual session for Friday 25th November.

Your task, over the time of the session but with a deadline of 7pm Friday, is to submit to me via e-mail your post on Ginsberg and Burroughs. You can use your own laptops or the computer room, and I'll be asking Mathew to set up the computer in VG11 at 3pm to this blog.

There follow some notes below which would mirror those I'd use tomorrow, plus some additional YouTube sites that I encourage you to look at together (nominate somebody to operate the computer) that show Archigram at their most feisty. Simply tap in to the YouTube search 'Archigram' 'ICA' 'David Greene' then try the archigram, ICA plus 'Mike Webb' and as many others from the series as you like. Hopefully you will see some correspondence with Burroughs as you watch this rather strange even unfold.

This is a week where we deal in total alternatives, extreme rejection of the 'normal'. You might ask your self what brings this on in terms of physical and cultural context (cars, drugs, jazz, electricity, Senetor McCarthy, sexual repression, The Bomb, wealth, parents, DH Lawrence, Jackson Pollock and so on) you might ask your self what such expression means to you now, is Glastonbury the same as it used to be? Do people get high to reach a state of higher consciousness....or not? Essentially these are the questions I want you to broach in your blog.

I wonder to how many of you this kind of material feels totally foreign?

I will be reading all the blogs you send in from my armchair, under half a blanket, and will provide feedback.

Best

Paul