THE CRYPTORONE SEQUENCE  (forthcoming with Black Ocean)

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THE CRYPTODRONE SEQUENCE (C.S.) is a simulation glitch; a black, trans assemblage journal with a cut-up persona. Using as source material a technical handbook on Computer Network Security and some chewed-up text from Kathy Acker, Edouard Glissant and others, C.S. traces a speaker violently enmeshed and renders, in the process, a speculative terrain where digital fragments, back-end laborers, and U.S. military surveillance networks interact.

 

I believe this poem speaks into a larger body of art-making that pulses at the intersection of race, technology and the occult; that together subvert their mediating technologies. The technology I want to subvert most, here, is empire.