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This is a compendium made from the author's 1st 19 books - stretching from 1977 to 2024. Each work is significantly different from each other but all of them present cognitive challenges - what the author calls "Cognitive Dissidence" [sic]. The books are excerpted from but also augmented by additional relevant materials. In one case, the book is completely rewritten in a much more developed way. Here are the titles: footnotes (original 1st edition); t he book t he referent 4 wch consists of t he non-materialized transparent punch-outs from a letter/whatever stencil; Yet Another Slow-Burning Feast of a Few Months Mischief in the U.K., Maybe (A Partial(ly) Epistolary Account of Non-Non & Non-Participation, Maybe); How to Write a Resumé - Volume II: Making a Good First Impression; Telepathy Receptivity Training; Reactionary Muddle America; A Mere Outline for One Aspect of a Book on Mystery Catalysts, Guerrilla Playfare, neoism, booed usic, Mad Scientist Didactions, Acts of As-Beenism, So-Called Whatevers, Psychopathfinding, Uncerts, Air Dressing, Practicing Promotextuality, Imp Activism, CircumSubstantial Playing, etc..; Anonymous Family Reunion (Abridged); Not Necessarily NOT Very Important; Story of a Fructiferous Society; HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) "Systems Management"; Paradigm Shift Knuckle Sandwich & other examples of P.N.T. (Perverse Number Theory); tENTATIVELY, aN iNTERVIEW; Unconscious Suffocation - A Personal Journey through the PANDEMIC PANIC; But not limited to (Smattering 1); THE SCIENCE (volume 1); Mike Film - A Mail (Art) Epic; Rubber Stamps vs World Dominators!!!!!; not limited to But (Smattering 2).
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Published April 13, 2024
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Tentatively a Convenience
16 books1 follower1st, the author's name is "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE". Because of algorithms and their slaves his name is corrupted in two ways on Goodreads, making his full 22 books not display in either of the 2 entries. Here's the link to the other page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Anyway, he was born, he proceeded to do his damnedest to try to undermine reality maintenance traps, aka the dominant paradigms. While it's more than a little debatable whether he's succeeded even a smidge in this area few would deny that he's given it ye olde anti-college try.
He's been busy in at least 66 cities in at least 14 countries. He's been an off-center figure in quite a few underground movements - including, but not limited to, Anarchism, Neoism, Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School, Krononauts, etc.
He's on the cusp of turning 71. It's his ambition to live to be about 123 so he can outlive the oldest person on record and so that he can outlive his manymies. He fully expects to not make it.
Anyway, he was born, he proceeded to do his damnedest to try to undermine reality maintenance traps, aka the dominant paradigms. While it's more than a little debatable whether he's succeeded even a smidge in this area few would deny that he's given it ye olde anti-college try.
He's been busy in at least 66 cities in at least 14 countries. He's been an off-center figure in quite a few underground movements - including, but not limited to, Anarchism, Neoism, Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School, Krononauts, etc.
He's on the cusp of turning 71. It's his ambition to live to be about 123 so he can outlive the oldest person on record and so that he can outlive his manymies. He fully expects to not make it.
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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's footnotes (2nd greatly expanded edition)
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - April 15, 2024
I've been writing seriously since I was 13. The only juvenilia that's survived my early purges are my high school yrbk entries. Those are written about in the earliest section of this bk. Taking those into consideration that means that writing from 1968 to 2024 is presented here, 56 yrs' worth. This is my Magnum Opus. While I may live long enuf to write many more bks that's far from assured, I'm 70. This bk is expensive, it's 907pp, there's some color. I don't know of any other bk like it. The diversity of the content is enormous, it's full of ideas & deliberately void of almost everything that I find shallow & manipulative (&, therefore, popular w/ people who prefer being led around by the nose). If you have an open mind, an inquiring intellect, & a hunger for original ideas presented in detail & w/ skill then this bk is probably for you. Chances are, both liberals AND conservatives will dislike it, anyone who doesn't think for themself. Free Thinkers, on the other archibras, will probably love it & garner some hope from a life spent in resistance to oversimplification, to normalized stupidity. YOU ARE NOT AN ALGORITHM, please don't act like one - the human algorithms are major contributors to the death of human intelligence. AU, Artificial Unintelligence, is just that: it's driven by big business & little humans just get in the way.
This is my 20th bk (not including chapbks). You probably won't find it here on my Goodreads author's page b/c Goodreads refuses to allow my name, "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE", to be not steam-rollered over by stupidity. Hence, there's a "Tentatively A Convenience" author on Goodreads now associated w/ 5 of my bks.
My 1st bk, t he bk / t he referent 4 wch consists of / t he non-materialized transparent punch-out from a letter/ whatever stencil, is the 1st bk addressed in footnotes (2nd. Elements of it are explained in detail that no-one wd've been likely to figure out on their own. That bk, written roughly from ages 21-23, is unlike any other bk by anyone that I've ever seen. It doesn't have a cover image or the title on it anywhere. That's perverse. I was once told by a bkstore manager that he preferred buying bks w/ fixed prices. That was a no, that was long ago. Recently, a bkstore owner just told me he wasn't "interested". That was also a no but one rife w/ undercurrents of hostility. Why? B/c it's possible to be too different, to have ideas & modes of presentation that just. don't. conform. We're not talking about proposing selling babies into sexual slavery here, we're talking about not having an image or title on the cover, formal things, things that make the object seem not quite (commercially) real.
A later bk, Telepathy Receptivity Training, consists entirely of phrases thought of while awakening, phrases collected over decades. This presentation of that bk presents all the phrases (& images) from the 1st incarnation of the bk + other phrases harvested after that bk's presentation.
Another very important section of the bk is the new version of Reactionary Muddle America. This is a detailed analysis of what I almost call the "minutes to a lynch mob meeting", a reaction to hate expressed against me that, for me, shows just how hopelessly brainwashed people usually are.
The more recently released bks excerpted from in the compilation have some slight addenda added to them to enable me to include things I neglected to include in the original bk(s). That includes, e.g., a rubber stamp that I left out of Rubber Stamps vs World Dominators!!!!!. There's always more work.
While the formal nature of the work varies dramatically, the overall motivation of challenging stultifying aspects of societal norms & subverting them stays fairly constant. I have an imagination, it's very important to me, I intend to use it. I'll die sooner rather than later but in the meantime I'm leaving behind as much of my personal revolution as I have the energy for. When I die, if my work isn't completely made to disappear as much as possible, the THOUSANDS or TENS OF THOUSANDS of intricate & original works, then someone who doesn't deserve it might possibly benefit where I failed to do so. However, it just might be possible that these hypothetical beneficiaries will be those I've designated as such. I hope so.
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's footnotes (2nd greatly expanded edition)
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - April 15, 2024
I've been writing seriously since I was 13. The only juvenilia that's survived my early purges are my high school yrbk entries. Those are written about in the earliest section of this bk. Taking those into consideration that means that writing from 1968 to 2024 is presented here, 56 yrs' worth. This is my Magnum Opus. While I may live long enuf to write many more bks that's far from assured, I'm 70. This bk is expensive, it's 907pp, there's some color. I don't know of any other bk like it. The diversity of the content is enormous, it's full of ideas & deliberately void of almost everything that I find shallow & manipulative (&, therefore, popular w/ people who prefer being led around by the nose). If you have an open mind, an inquiring intellect, & a hunger for original ideas presented in detail & w/ skill then this bk is probably for you. Chances are, both liberals AND conservatives will dislike it, anyone who doesn't think for themself. Free Thinkers, on the other archibras, will probably love it & garner some hope from a life spent in resistance to oversimplification, to normalized stupidity. YOU ARE NOT AN ALGORITHM, please don't act like one - the human algorithms are major contributors to the death of human intelligence. AU, Artificial Unintelligence, is just that: it's driven by big business & little humans just get in the way.
This is my 20th bk (not including chapbks). You probably won't find it here on my Goodreads author's page b/c Goodreads refuses to allow my name, "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE", to be not steam-rollered over by stupidity. Hence, there's a "Tentatively A Convenience" author on Goodreads now associated w/ 5 of my bks.
My 1st bk, t he bk / t he referent 4 wch consists of / t he non-materialized transparent punch-out from a letter/ whatever stencil, is the 1st bk addressed in footnotes (2nd. Elements of it are explained in detail that no-one wd've been likely to figure out on their own. That bk, written roughly from ages 21-23, is unlike any other bk by anyone that I've ever seen. It doesn't have a cover image or the title on it anywhere. That's perverse. I was once told by a bkstore manager that he preferred buying bks w/ fixed prices. That was a no, that was long ago. Recently, a bkstore owner just told me he wasn't "interested". That was also a no but one rife w/ undercurrents of hostility. Why? B/c it's possible to be too different, to have ideas & modes of presentation that just. don't. conform. We're not talking about proposing selling babies into sexual slavery here, we're talking about not having an image or title on the cover, formal things, things that make the object seem not quite (commercially) real.
A later bk, Telepathy Receptivity Training, consists entirely of phrases thought of while awakening, phrases collected over decades. This presentation of that bk presents all the phrases (& images) from the 1st incarnation of the bk + other phrases harvested after that bk's presentation.
Another very important section of the bk is the new version of Reactionary Muddle America. This is a detailed analysis of what I almost call the "minutes to a lynch mob meeting", a reaction to hate expressed against me that, for me, shows just how hopelessly brainwashed people usually are.
The more recently released bks excerpted from in the compilation have some slight addenda added to them to enable me to include things I neglected to include in the original bk(s). That includes, e.g., a rubber stamp that I left out of Rubber Stamps vs World Dominators!!!!!. There's always more work.
While the formal nature of the work varies dramatically, the overall motivation of challenging stultifying aspects of societal norms & subverting them stays fairly constant. I have an imagination, it's very important to me, I intend to use it. I'll die sooner rather than later but in the meantime I'm leaving behind as much of my personal revolution as I have the energy for. When I die, if my work isn't completely made to disappear as much as possible, the THOUSANDS or TENS OF THOUSANDS of intricate & original works, then someone who doesn't deserve it might possibly benefit where I failed to do so. However, it just might be possible that these hypothetical beneficiaries will be those I've designated as such. I hope so.
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