Posts Tagged ‘poetry’

BTR: What is it?

December 27, 2025

i asked ChatGPT 5.2, which (who?) sez:

I found only a very limited and non-academic usage of the phrase “Bingian Translational Reanalysis” (BTR) online — and it doesn’t appear to be a recognized term in linguistics, translation studies, or mainstream scholarship. The references that do exist come from experimental / artistic writing communities, not research literature. 

📌 What Bingian Translational Reanalysis appears to be 

It shows up in creative art/poetry contexts as a playful conceptual method, not a scientific methodology: 

  • On a site associated with The Book of Haiku RevelationBingian Translational Reanalysis™ is described as a “modality of language permutation contingent upon erratic Internet translation procedures.” It’s clearly tied to experimental language games, not formal analysis. The Book of Haiku Revelation 
  • The term is used by a self-styled “Society for Bingian Translational Reanalysis” and appears alongside creative practices such as cut-ups, quasi-quotations, and haiku transformations. The Book of Haiku Revelation+1 
  • On several blogs, BTR appears in the context of remixing texts through multiple translations (e.g., running lines through German, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, etc.) and then applying creative reorganization to produce new poetic results. Death Palette . . . . . . . . . 
  • Tangential mentions show BTR applied to poems or prompts as a surrealistic literary exercise, often tied to Beat or avant-garde poetry communities. Tumblr 

🧠 What it isn’t 

  • It does not appear in peer-reviewed literature, academic translation theory, or established linguistic research. 
  • It does not have a formal definition in translation studies or computational linguistics. 
  • It is not related to any scientific “reanalysis” used in climate data, statistics, or other technical fields (e.g., NOAA reanalysis datasets). NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory 

🔍 Example of how it’s described

“Bingian Translational Reanalysis™ is a modality of language permutation contingent upon erratic Internet translation procedures.” The Book of Haiku Revelation

This reads as a conceptual/brand phrase used by a specific creative project rather than a standardized method.


🧠 Summary

  • Bingian Translational Reanalysis (BTR) is a creative/experimental language technique from online poetry/language art communities — not a scholarly or recognized academic term.
  • It appears mainly on blogs and creative sites associated with avant-garde text manipulation and artistic translation experiments.
  • The method involves using online translation tools + permutation/cut-ups as an artistic generative process.

In case you didn’t get that, it’s not a scholarly or recognized academic term. It’s got nothing to do with NOAA, or even Noah, though it will float an experimental boat. Sheesh! My “scholarly” stuff is found on Academia.

Support independent psychotronic fiction!

December 7, 2015

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The dead read books with
a lot of pages . . . They have
the time for language

—Kathy Acker, The Book of Haiku Revelation

Support independent psychotronic fiction! (pt. 2)

December 7, 2015

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Art that is eating
the spectator interests
me more than beauty

—Marcel Duchamp, The Book of Haiku Revelation

Baltasar Gracián

October 24, 2015

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Respect yourself, but
do not be envious of
your accomplishments

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The dignity of
favorable beginnings
is lost on an ape

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Beautiful women
depend on the applause of
brute expectations

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Real friendship is
a great falsifier, as
obscure as nothing

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When desire gilds your
happiness, never contend
with integrity

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One must pass through the
peacock’s mirror to find the
limits of fashion

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Among gamblers and
fools, the burden of time slinks
like a mad serpent

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A reputation
is always built on the sweet
touch of bad manners

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Opportunity
is the art of affecting
a sage ignorance

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Mao Zedong

August 4, 2015

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A revolution
is a dinner party on
an empty belly

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A revolution
is a hundred flowers of
blood embroidery

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A revolution
is direct experience
of art for art’s sake

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A revolution
is writing eating the head
of literature

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A revolution
is not communism, it is
love of communism

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A revolution
is too many books for the
dull-witted masses

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A revolution
is the flourishing death of
reactionaries

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A revolution
is detached from politics
and economics

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A revolution
is an atom bomb at the
bottom of a well

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A revolution
is the contradiction of
the revolution

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #41

June 26, 2015

Hexagram 41: Sun—Decrease

The benefits of
loss: Genkichi uplinked to
Jeong with guilt-free

accompanying
profits. A true GUI
is a flexible

GUI. It’s like
saying: a gentleman’s chéng
fèn zhì yù is a

Corfu of common
discretion. Why levy a
fierce Trent? Florida

is three suspects and
a line of damaged accounts,
but folks will profit.

The loss of disease
will save ten friends and frustrate
contrary people.

Invigorating
is the turtle who points to
no official home.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

http://www.humaniverse.net/iching/Tao/Chinese_IChing_index.html

Sigmund Freud

May 16, 2015

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Sometimes a cigar
is just a half-tamed demon,
a burning male id

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The virtuous man
oozes wicked thoughts from his
very fingertips

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Immorality
is the full grandeur of the
soul’s authority

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The royal road to
the unconscious leads to the
tyrant called Mother

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Renunciation
is the magical power
to disavow God

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The libidinal
components of a horse will
cure uncertainty

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Blissful confusion
contrasts very little with
human happiness

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A poet contents
himself with the illusion
that word is conscience

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Civilization
is the pathological
love of liberty

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #40

April 23, 2015

Hexagram 40: Hsieh—Deliverance

Hydrolysis is
a thunderstorm of risk-free
solutions. Heaven

and Earth pardon the
crimes of the SLA in
the earthquake at the

blame-free time of the
Ephesians. In Italy,
the stingy Southwest

minces the storm of
Jie and Zhen Ji. As it is
said: the yellow fox

eases the road to
Jeong. The softness of an
ugly solution

is a self-induced
arrow of negative Jung.
The solution of

the hallux is not
the solution of the thumb.
The public notice

of Hayabusa
is a paradox. As it
is said: bad info

multiplies like bad
people. A gentleman is
a friend to sifu.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

http://www.humaniverse.net/iching/Tao/Chinese_IChing_index.html

 

Seneca

March 11, 2015

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Virtue is a vice
when it wears the mask of God’s
common dominion

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All nature is a
recognition of art’s gift
to adversity

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Labor injures the
mind; its only remedy
is the shrift of gold

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Hatred impairs one’s
self-respect, but vengeance is
fortune’s great favor

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Be silent, and if
you can’t be silent know that
we’re not listening

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Consult a madman
on all things and steer in a
favorable wind

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A fool knows not that
recognizable order
is never maintained

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Deny admittance
to the passions and life is
onerous solace

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The infirmity
of language shrivels before
the terror of law

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Live among men as
if you are unable to
bear humanity

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline

February 20, 2015

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To philosophize
is to go off the deep end
of posterity

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The nature of life
is that boredom will nibble
your brain to nothing

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Lying is just the
filigree of truth, the make-
believe of poodles

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Forgiveness is for
beggars and cowards; grind it
up with witches’ eggs

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A pregnant woman
is a futile distraction
from delirium

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Infinity is
a punishable offense
to reality

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Poetry is an
inebriated monster,
the tapeworm of prose

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Dance to the music
of wealth: a carnival tune
that tinkles like war

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Alan Dershowitz

January 5, 2015

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Israel is Ed
Koch, the Second Amendment,
and God in a dream

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The Ten Commandments
are like the Supreme Court with
even more damage

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Freedom of speech means
Jesus was resurrected—
so we can relax

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Hypocrisy is
the moral high ground; it’s just
ambiguity

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The threat of Hell is
merely justification
for doing nothing

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Though the Bible may
violate the Geneva
Accords, it’s still true

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Asymmetrical
warfare is flipping burgers
in a synagogue

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Pretending you’re a
fetus is not the same as
being a fetus

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Calling Obama
a ticking-bomb paranoid
is a euphemism

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Noam Chomsky

December 15, 2014

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The resurrection
of the Left will happen in
a mosque on Neptune

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The bowling league is
the fascist hegemony
of warrior gods

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Nuremberg is the
only place to be hanged—it’s
a terminal drug

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There are no magic
answers to the problems we
face—just the bludgeon

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Disillusionment
is the ability to
despise simple things

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I happen to know
genocidal aliens
control the future

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The American
people are a miracle
of servility

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Karl Kraus

November 6, 2014

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A woman in short
pants is the handmaiden of
sex education

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The trouble with Kant
is his idealism is
worse than syphilis

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Virginity is
a wastrel’s passion; it will
deflower morals

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A poorly repressed
shoe fetishist has no time
to be a loafer

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Democracy is
an old miser who attracts
beggars, dogs and thieves

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Christian martyrdom
is a lifestyle that has stood
every test of time

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When I plagiarize,
it unsettles the whole world—
it’s an art earthquake

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Science is a crutch
for those exhausted by their
imagination

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Squeeze human nature
into matrimony and
endanger the world

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Journalism is an
abortion of thought and the
mother of all lies

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Jeff Koons

September 19, 2014

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Advertising is
a humanitarian
act. Fundraising too.

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I’ve always enjoyed
the avant-garde: Disney, Pop,
the Church, Germany

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The invisible
fabric that holds the market
together is love

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Surrealism is
the waiting list of Dada’s
communal courage

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Morality is
not responsibility,
it is transcendence

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Every painting is
metaphysical candy,
a surface gesture

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A museum is
the one place where money is
gift-wrapping paper

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Art is a mundane
fetish of energy, a
box of reaction

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Politics is like
the biology of trees,
a Bambi closet

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Consumerism is
really found within you—
it’s self-expansion

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Harold Pinter

August 12, 2014

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Apart from the known
unknown, there is the real
unreal: the past

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The greatest thing God
created on earth is the
dust of true desire

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Language is a failed
stratagem to cover the
nakedness of art

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Propaganda is
the collateral damage
of the status quo

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Death is about five
thousand million years old—it’s
a long piece of work

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America is
like trying to be a good
boy with your balls out

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The Republican
Party is the squalid fact
of dictatorship

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The theater is
a mirror beyond reason,
a clinical kiss

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Ionesco

June 29, 2014

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Capitulation
is the secret nostalgia
of revolution

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Ideology
is incomprehensible;
so is a dog’s nose

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No question can be
answered with “God,” “Art,” “Beauty,”
or “civil servants”

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No political
system can deliver us
from the pain of words

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Surrealism is
the absolute fertilized
with the grace of time

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I have always been
suspicious of fate—it’s a
logical prison

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Eternity is
the gateway to a deeper
misunderstanding

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Posterity is
the restitution of the
crime of history

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