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Looking for information on the playback technique

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I was on a wikipedia rabbit-hole plunge and ended up reading
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, and apparently he was into magic, specifically chaos magic. The wiki says he created some magical techniques, one of which is the
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. This seems quite interesting, but I'm now looking for more info on this technique. I searched the forum and found a passing reference on a chaos magic thread, but not much more. Does anyone have any good resource (articles, books, whatever) to learn more about it?

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Ive just been reading The magical universe of William S burroughs by Mathew Levi Stevens... a bit in there about it. Mentions in there playback: My personal experience of chaos magic with William S Boroughs Sr by Cabell McLean (aka Cabell Hardy)....mentions the Moka bar incident etc
 

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In the prologue of Genesis P-Orridge's Nonbinary: A Memoir there is Burroughs himself explaining it briefly (as it is supersimple).
 
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