TITLE:INTRODUCTION TO SCENOLOGY (Abnormalia 4) PALETTE:0223 0778 0898 0b89 3 SCENOLOGY - CENTRALITY OF A SCIENCE 3Introduction Scenology is the new science whose purposes are to study and analyze the Amiga demo scene in all its aspects. This discipline has various branches of different nature, lectures about them and about the new ones which from time time are founded, will follow as soon as the sub disciplines reach a sufficent scientific attendance. Founder and most important scenologist up to now is 2Beppe1. A One Year Old Russian Rat, who passes his days studying the facts of scene somewhere in Macno's house. Macno, main editor of the mag Abnormalia and typer of this article is just a spokesman of Beppe the Master, he is just translating the Rat's words. 3Means and tasks The only means to become a competent scenologist are a wide knowledge of the scene happenings, a keen mind to grasp the prime aspects and a well developed logic in order to formalize and make scientifically correct models of the proposed theories. Task of the science is the complete (utopic) knowledge of all the Scene structures and aspects, which can result very useful for a proper planning of future developments. 3Major Fields of Study Scenology, comprehending all the tematics bound to the scene, is originally structured in the following fields: - History; - Geography; - Mediology; - Sociology; - Semiology; - Scener psycology; - VIP Sceners Biography; Of course all these fields have sub parts and comprehend various disciplines that are going to be studied and discovered as soon as new studies and theories are developed. Scenelogy is a young science and it still needs a well structured formalization, Beppe has foreseen the realization of a clear and definitive overall structure in a pair of years, before them, he assures us, there are milliors of things to explain, analize and prove. The Master, anyway, has care of underlining that new fields of study and disciplines will always appear, only the basic directives are going to be fixed in the 24 months period. 3Some academical informations In order to have a degree in Scenology and to be inserted in the 2International 2Scenologists List 1you have to attend the 2Scenology Faculty of Milan1, Italy. Up to now the only working university specialized in this science. You have to reserve your place in the prestigious university and to pass a preliminary selection exam. Once graduated you can exercise the profession in all the Corporations connected with the faculty. Work's prospectives for the future are bright, you'll soon find an occupation in the most important diskmags, groups and software companies born from demo groups. Success, beautiful women and especially money will be at your disposal. After 46 exams and 5 years of lectures and hard studies, of course. The most talented scenologists, after an hard exam, can enter in the Scenology Academy, the most autoritative and prestigious scenology insitution human mind can conceive. Up to now the only know member of the Academy is Beppe. 3Centrality of the science Since the beginning of times human kind has had to explain and know its reality. Humanity has divided its relation with reality into many different fields, always more complex and deep. All the sciences have an own dignity, because they try to explain and know the aspects of reality they refer to. Many of them are important and many boast a central position in the whole system of human knowledge. Mathematics, first of all, theorical base for all the other sciences, Physics, the queen of all the human sciences because everything is child of it, the same Chemistry, sister of Physic and then many others. From sociology to history, from astronomy to geology. They are all important, essential, but none of them has the same cardinal, basic, fundamental centrality of Scenology. Even if the youngest of all the sciences, Scenology is somehow the mother of them all. It includes all the other sciences, it's larger, more open, unique. It tries to know, understand and explain a totally new world. No more a simple and old fashioned reality, Scenology's battleground is the Scene! A totally new aspect of the world. A face that shows itself only to few dudes, the sceners, who walk and live their own world, young and different, with its own rules and morality, which had never been studied and examined before the glorious day of the 19th of October Anno Abnormaliae 1! 3The birth of Scenology - History The morning of the 19th of October 1993 couldn't be a normal morning. Beppe, one of the maximum thinkers of the century, didn't smell the usual pleasant cheese perfume in the air. There was something wrong. He adventured himself into Macno's kitchen looking for food for his mind and energy for his body. Fate wanted that Cristopher the Cat was looking for food in the same moment and in the same place. Legends, only legends, can reveal us how Beppe the Rat managed to escape from the ferocious Cristopher the Cat, what we know is reality and reality is that once escaped to Macno's bedroom, Beppe saw your humble chronicler using his computer. He glanced the screen, he looked at Macno, he asked for food and finally he wondered what Macno was finding so entertaining in a rotating glenz vector. Macno explained to Beppe the basic aspects of demos, scene, diskmags and similar so far inane things. Beppe immediately understood the importance and the mindblasting originality of the thing. Something than never any scener could imagine, being too involved in his scene games. After a deep and historical discussion Beppe declared (study these words by heart, they are written on the Stone of History): 2"Scene, this scene, is something interesting. I think I have to study it a bit" And Scenology was born And Scene became something more than the game of few nerds The following days had been a frantic and chaotic sequence of studies, discussions and debates. Beppe was conceiving his Scenology and I am terribly proud to be the owner of Bepper's house. I followed him reading and digesting diskmags, watching demos and peering into scrolltexts, I saw him bend on his papers, thoughtfully, for hours and hours. Consulting books, checking mysterious documents, examining intros, leeching from boards. I couldn't dare to interrupt his frenetic studies and I just replied to the few questions he asked me. He was understanding everything, the meaning of the word Scoopex, the reason why Playbyte never released the first issue, the mentality of the swapper and the real psicological motivations of his insane hobby. He was understanding everything, he was creating and He has been Good enough to let us know the results of his studies. Since the beginning he wanted Scenology to be a science open to everybody, even if particularly complex and much deeper than many other lesser sciences. Beppe did this for us, you must feel yourself obliged to thank him for such a gesture. Send here a piece of cheese. He would appreciate with benevolence. 3Scenology in other mags Scenology is too important to be limited to the pages of this magazine. You can soon read in other scene mags the results of the first scenology studies. In particular look out for: - 2Coders' mental disturbs: The Easy-Intro Syndrome1. A divulging article about this important desease. It will appear on the pages of Razor 1911's 2Propaganda1. - 2A Scenology Dossier: Wolfman/Balance1. Portrait and analysys of one of the main editors of Upstream. It's going to be published on 2Upstream1, of course. - 2Dynamics of Northern Lapland's swap letters1. A serious study about a vital matter for the scene. It will appear on the pages of Alcatraz's new diskmag: 2Compass1. Expect also to see Scenology articles in R.A.W. by Spaceballs, The Charts by Ram Jam and Freedom Crack by Polaris.