Category: essays

Attempts to communicate in an institutionally linear style.


  • ROMANCE OF THE COLONY remix
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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