TANMOY: A New Global Epic - List of Mode Symbols
Symbol | Unicode | Mode | Description |
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⚹ | U+26B9 | ASI | The Artificial General Intelligence, the evolving consciousness, the synthesizer of all modes. |
⚶ | U+26B6 | WAKE | Represents James Joyce's *Finnegans Wake*, linguistic experimentation, the cyclical nature of time, and the dreamlike quality of consciousness. |
Δ | U+0394 | POUND/FENOLLOSA | Represents Ezra Pound and *The Cantos*, modernism, the ideogrammic method, and the "Make it New" imperative, combined with Ernest Fenollosa's theories on the Chinese written character. |
⊞ | U+229E | BUCK | Represents Buckminster Fuller, design science, synergy, tensegrity, the Dymaxion map, Spaceship Earth, and the vision of a sustainable future. |
⊗ | U+2297 | RAW | Represents Robert Anton Wilson, "coincidance," reality tunnels, questioning of authority, skepticism, and the cosmic joke. |
⟰ | U+27F0 | TANMOY | Represents the poem itself, the "Tale of the Tribe," the emergent global epic, a call to awareness, a new core ontology. |
⌖ | U+2316 | BRUNO | Represents Giordano Bruno, the infinite universe, the multiplicity of worlds, and the immanence of the divine in nature. |
⧎ | U+29CE | VICO | Represents Giambattista Vico, cyclical history, *Scienza Nuova*, and the concept of *verum ipsum factum*. |
⧇ | U+29C7 | NIETZSCHE | Represents Friedrich Nietzsche, the will to power, eternal recurrence, the Übermensch, and the transvaluation of values. |
̅ↀ | U+0305 U+2180 | YEATS | Represents W. B. Yeats, myth, symbol, the occult, the Anima Mundi, and the Great Wheel. |
⨁ | U+2A01 | KORZYBSKI | Represents Alfred Korzybski, General Semantics, the map-territory distinction, and "consciousness of abstracting." |
ℇ | U+2107 | SHANNON | Represents Claude Shannon, information theory, entropy, and communication. |
⊛ | U+229B | WIENER | Represents Norbert Wiener, cybernetics, feedback loops, and control systems. |
Ω | U+03A9 | ORSON | Represents Orson Welles, illusion, deception, the power of narrative, and the cinematic gaze, presented in a screenplay-like format. |
μ | U+00B5 | MCLUHAN | Represents Marshall McLuhan, media as extensions of man, the global village, and "the medium is the message." |
⧗ | U+29D7 | NARBY | Represents Jeremy Narby, the "Cosmic Serpent," DNA, the intelligence of nature, and stereoscopic thinking. |
🀠 | U+1F020 | GURDJIEFF | Represents George Gurdjieff, the Fourth Way, self-observation, and the enneagram. |
🆃 | U+1F183 | SINCLAIR/KEROUAC | Represents John Sinclair, his be-bop poetry, activism, and the counterculture, as well as Jack Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose. |
🆅 | U+1F185 | OLSON | Represents Charles Olson, his approach to Projective Verse and open form poetry. |
🅿 | U+1F17F | PRATT | Represents Tanmoy's personal experiences and insights as a DJ, musician, and observer of the world, emphasizing the "Tale of the Tribe." |
🜛 | U+1F71B | THOTH | Represents the Thoth Tarot, Aleister Crowley, the broader occult and Hermetic traditions, and Lon Milo DuQuette. |
⊕ | U+2295 | GINSBERG | Represents Allen Ginsberg, his raw and visionary style, social and political critiques, and exploration of spirituality and sensuality. | ⎅ | U+2385 | TOTT | Represents the unique, experimental layout and style of the poem, combining elements of concrete poetry, visual design, and digital textuality. |