Tag: science fiction
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04/04/22: Guest reader at Spoken Word Paris @ Au Chat Noir
Back into the fray. I haven’t written in quite some time so I’ll be reading some classics from Dawn of the Algorithm along with some more recent but still not-so-recent pieces from my latest chapbook manuscript Comorbid Condition. Au Chat Noir is my first love when it comes to spoken word poetry. Many of the…
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Sample Illustrations for Dawn of the Algorithm
Below are three lowrez samples of the artwork featured in Dawn of the Algorithm. You can read The Moreau Zoo and T-Rex is Sad on the Inkshares project page, while Post-Human Neo-Tokyo is up on Two Words For. Sharing is caring! Or rather, in the spirit of our generation’s soulless devolution into cyber-detachment: I share therefore I…
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Poetry Collection: Dawn of the Algorithm
If you enjoy the poetry you read in this portfolio (I mean blog.) you can pre-order my forthcoming (je touche du bois) poetry collection. I’m working with Inkshares, who among others are set to revolutionise the publishing model, and my manuscript is honed and polished. Why not become a patron of the arts, as in olden days, those glorious days…
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THE MACHINIST (not the Christian Bale movie)
THE MACHINIST I have this dream of building a Machine. Tooled with human stem cells and a soldering iron, I will build it entirely with my own hands using rusty car parts and burnt out graphic cards, toasters, coat-hangers and broken brass instruments. I plan to weld an electromagnetic rail-gun to the snout, a hood-ornament pointing…
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Published in Gard Literary Journal, in Turkish
Turkish literary magazine Gard Siir (which I think means Gard Poetry) is publishing a translation of Dawn of the Algorithm in their Winter 2013 print issue. Emre Cengiz, poet, translator and editor of Gardsiir, got in touch with me after reading the poem on the Poet & Geek website. He then took it upon himself to translate the…
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The Octoshark Lives On
I’ve been published in the 7th issue of Poet & Geek ezine, a minimalistic, unpretentious, cyberspatial paradimension of “Poetry, Place and Informatics.” Dawn of the Algorithm was a spin-off of an idea triggered by this NYT Article and this excellent piece by Alexandra Petri at the WP. The Moreau Zoo I guess was inspired by my zoophiliac tendencies by…
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Post-Human Neo-Tokyo featured in TwoWordsFor
So there’s a new digital literary magazine in town. It’s mean. It’s lean. It’s a mish-mash, hodge-podge, bric-à-brac type of binary-code Frankenstein stitched together with thread made from lolcat guts by the talented editor and poet, Alex Manthei. It’s got poems, stories, photos, animated art, illustrations… The common thread, the RED THREAD (to borrow a…
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GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD
***** I strung my kite and licked my thumb and bid farewell to this cruel world, to all of you… You bastards! I blew a kiss to my poor old weeping mum, every bit the clown, her makeup a sordid mess. I tossed a pinch of dust, a blade of grass and watched them waft…
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Published in the Bastille Magazine vol. II
The Bastille Magazine, edited by David Barnes and his team of superheroes (Bruce Sherfield, Troy Yorke, Suzanne Allen and Pearlann Porter), is a bi-annual literary publication showcasing some of the top dogs of the Paris spoken word scene. It is organised thematically around the word (and world of) “Dreams” and features some truly excellent writers…
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I, too, am Bradley Manning
We all love the hacker archetype, the one-man-against-the-machine theme. They make great characters. Chelsea Manning isn’t a character, this is not fiction. She is a human being in a cage, slowly rotting away. Manning is kind of a hero, kind of a villain too. It depends. She is, whatever the case, an extremist. Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Aaron…