Been listening to Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief album a lot these days. The effects of a MP3 player with space for about four albums... Intense listening!
William Burroughs tried to reach the subconscious mind with stories produced using the cut-up technique: Write stuff, cut it up, put it together in random order, let people read it. It makes no sense on a conscious level, but touches you on some weirder level.
Or do goes his theory. I always felt that it was just crappy reading.
Listening to Radiohead with their fairly cut-up words, their deconstruction of pop-music – I feel reminded of William Burroughs. Perhaps his cut-up technique fails for books but works for music?
Notice that the hypertext they have been creating all over the net is similarly byzantine, weird, cut-up – and maybe it will reach into your subconscious mind. As KarlPopper noted, when it comes to psychotherapy, you can never disprove it... If it doesn’t work, you need more of the same. Just a bit different.
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