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Posted on August 3 at 6:19 a.m.

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You can read the accounts of activities which went on in Interzone during those 10 years in the monthly previous reports since September 97 in Information on Interzone http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernland...

(Extract from Interzone report of July 2007
http://www.geocities.com/reportersredact...)

A big thanks to Bill Burroughs for his teachings, for his humanity and simplicity,
and his beyond death collaboration !!!!!!!!!! Big love from the whole Zone to
him and James Grauerholz !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Izzy,
Interzone coordinator, France
August 3rd 2007

Interzone Ring:
http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernland...
The Western Lands:
http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernland...
inter-zone.org:
http://www.inter-zone.org/
Interzone News and blogs:
http://www.myspace.com/interzonenews
Interzone Academy:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/94...
Interzone Library
http://www.geocities.com/interzonelibrar...
Reporters Rédacteurs d'Interzone
http://www.geocities.com/reportersredact...

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Posted on August 3 at 6:18 a.m.

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I consulted I Ching about this idea, and the answer I got was that this could lead to a valuable human adventure, which would not happen if I did not do it. So on August 10th, I proposed them to send them for free plans of a dreamachine I had drawn in 1981. This dreamachine was working with 5 different rythhms inside the alpha band, which allowed to get different effects and results. I had shown those plans to Brion Gysin who had encouraged me to spread them.

So I was expecting to find about 10 people in the whole who might have been interested. I received more than 300 answers in a week, most of them quite enthousiastic. I sent the plans in mails in return, and people sent me back what they were doing from their side around Burroughs and Gysin .

Suddenly, I received writings, musics, paintings, etc. , coming from people from all over the world, who were doing their own experiments alone, thinking they were the only ones in the world to make it. As a result I
spread the info and with the help of Foe who tought me step by step to make a site, I made one and put on line what I was receiving.

People were struck to see the common result, which was unexpected, and unforeseen, as all this was consecutive to Burroughs' death and our respective reactions to it. So we decided to get organized in a Burroughsian
group, voted for a name, which ended to be "Interzone", and the adventure has been going on since. If most of the members are from US, some people come from many parts of the world. So this allowed us to share our points of view through the lightening of different cultures, and see them as complementary.

The fact is that a gathering of Burroughs' readers implied people who had common references and concepts, a common frame, which was a base of common agreement. The results of this mixed creativity at different levels
happening spontaneously, without any imposed frame, are much beyond the expectations we might have had when we decided to create a group. It can be seen as a laboratory of experiment of Burroughs' and Gysin's domains of research in the physical world.

A part of it is on line in the catalogue of Interzone Creations, which I have updated at http://www.inter-zone.org/catal1.html

(see Interzone : ten years after (3)

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Posted on August 3 at 6:17 a.m.

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On August 2nd 2007 Interzone will be ten years old ! For people who joined later on, here are how things went on :

I heard about Burroughs' death on August 2nd 1997 on French TV in the evening news, at the end of the program. I had met him in the Bunker, in New York, in March 1981, and had kept in touch with him then, and with Victor Bockris, through the translation of his book "With William Burroughs - A Report on the Bunker" ("Avec Willim Burroughs - Notre Agent au Bunker", Collection l'Infini, Editions Denoël, 1985) (see the article "The Time of the Naguals" http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernland... about my meetings with Burroughs and Gysin, and related events).

I had a correspondance with Burroughs writing my book "Des systèmes de Contrôle", as I was studying their structure in vivo and analyzing it through the lightning of general semantics. Burroughs, who had folowed Korzybski's courses, was at the origin of the concept of control systems, on which Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze wrote about then. He had also written quite a lot about death, had studied the different maps of it through different cultures ("The Job", "Ah Pook is Here", "The Western Lands", ' My Education", etc.), and had drawn in his book a map of the territories.

When I heard about Burroughs death, I had the feeling that he was not dead at all, still alive, very alive, but free from the limitations of his physical body, and satisfied with his new conditions of life.

I sent a letter to the newspaper Liberation to propose them some original articles and interviews, but they answered they already had their 3 pages ready and were not interested.

I had got connected to the net two months before and was a newbie . I looked for web pages on Burroughs in search engines, and found a memorial, "the William Burroughs' files " http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/wsb/ in which readers were reacting to Burroughs' disappearance. The following night, I had a dream about me sending many mails, in company of a friendly adviser, and first did not see to which event this dream might refer to.

I wanted to get in touch with other Burroughs' readers who had experimented some of his inventions, as I had done from my side. I was making research since some years and was interested in confronting my results with the ones of other people. One evening, reading the comments of the day which had arrived in the Memorial, the idea came to me to get in touch with their authors.

(see Interzone : ten years after (2)

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