Category: essays
Attempts to communicate in an institutionally linear style.
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ROMANCE OF THE COLONY remix
Greetings from a long chronic pain flare. This episode of the CM podcast was recorded slowly and painfully over the past 6 months. It features a sample-heavy recording of my essay ROMANCE OF THE COLONY, a news/noise collage ‘remix’ of madam data’s DEAD GENERALS / DOLLAR GENERAL album, and a throwback recording of Raccoona Sheldon’s…
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Under Empire: A fleeting inquisition of Artificial Intelligence
The following is a slightly different version of an essay that appeared in CLOG Magazine’s 2018 Artificial Intelligence issue. Can you think of a narrative where “artificial intelligence” is not depicted as subservient to the functions of human empire? As something beyond a labor class necessitated by Western capitalist possibility? AI is a hallmark fixture…
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The Romance of the Colony
I originally wrote this narrative for Mask Magazine [defunct 2021] about the persistent imperialist romance myth of “the colony” in sci-fi. It’s a story about the dreams of The Colony’s extension into outerspace/surveillance state as seen thru lens of Hollywood blockbusters and anime. Better Living Through Chemistry It’s spring, 2011. Your friend is at the…
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ODE TO ROCK LEE
IF YOU PRESUME THAT I DON’T ENGAGE IN CERTAIN ACTIVITIES WITHOUT EVER FOR A SECOND CONSIDERING THAT THE REASON MIGHT BE FINANCIAL THEN I’M LETTING YOU KNOW YOU’RE PULLING SOME LIL UPPER CLASS BULLSHIT IF YOU THINK THAT I DON’T LIKE SOMETHING THAT I DON’T WANT TO DO SOMETHING THAT I CAN’T THAT IT MUST…
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PEOPLE WHO WRITE ABOUT THE 90S INTERNET AND HOW CYBERSPACE WAS THIS CRAZY SPACE BACK IN THE DAY
OK I WANT TO KNOW I REALLY WANT TO KNOW DID THEY ACTUALLY LIVE IT? WERE THEY IN THOSE CYBERSPACES? WERE THEY THOSE PRE/TEENS ACTING AS VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS AS VAMPIRE VERSIONS OF THEIR FAVORITE DRAGON BALL Z CHARACTER, ROLE PLAYING AT ELITE CHATROOM POOLS WITH DEPRESSED BOYS N GIRLS LIVING IN IRL ISOLATION? THE…
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