Böcker av Jose-Luis Moctezuma

"Black Box Syndrome is a series of poems (or "black boxes") based on the hexagrams in the I Ching. Following the aleatoric tradition popularized by the surrealists and extended by the work of John Cage and Jackson Maclow, the poems cast their assorted lenses (or coins, or yarrow stalks) at the hazards of the incessant financialization of everyday life. Synthesizing chance-operational aesthetics with Aztec anatomical science, conspiracy theory with systems theory, and the black box model with the concept of the "influencing machine," Black Box Syndrome articulates the tension between lyric excess and digital compaction that encodes poetic discourse in the age of pandemic. Over and against the corrosive world-shrinking effects of Wall Street risk management and futures trading, the black boxes in this book propose a counter-divination that distorts, deranges, and decolonizes the logic of empire"--

Place-Discipline lyricizes 21st century subjectivity as the byproduct of, and resistance to, global capitalism¿s necropolitics and the encroachment of occult financial industries and vectoralism on the human¿s right to chaotic embodiment and trans-formation. Taking its title from Sun Ra¿s 1972 album, Discipline 27-II, Moctezuma¿s book explores hybridity, hyphenation, and heliocentric border-crossing as possible alternatives to the darkening ¿white magic¿ of cognitive capitalism and cultural gentrification. At once a disquisition on the economics of austerity and a response to the enforced scarcity in our rights to spectral identity, difference, and translanguaging, Place-Discipline seeks to bypass the binary code of depoliticization by reaching the plateau of an enunciation which speaks through fracture, and which sings through DuSablean absence.