- Digging
- Fictions
- Growth
- Invisibility
- Perception
- System Failure
- The Body
Doctor, Doctor
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The following story unfolds with a cadence all its own. It rewards the curious yet meets the overeager with a measured wait and see.
- Digging
- Extraction
- Growth
- Invisibility
- Land and Sea
- System Failure
The Erosion of Silicon Beach
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The tide line is a soft transition. Where capital meets the sea, it creates brittle structures, likely to shatter. The ocean’s edges may not be as fluid as they seem.
- Fictions
- Generation
- Networks
- System Failure
Square Hole
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An NFT offers a generic something: some thing, neither here nor there, which exists in order to escape being worthless (a born loser). It escapes to the address it is given, and its value is held precisely there.
- Digging
- Extraction
- Growth
- Invisibility
- Land and Sea
- System Failure
The Erosion of Silicon Beach
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discomforting circularity turns in my stomach, thinking about Santa Monica’s full-circle from place of work to ‘workplace.’
- Cosmology
- Extraction
- Fictions
- Generation
- Invisibility
- System Failure
- Visualization
Three Diffractions of LA
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I talk to my cousin Corey Stover on the phone and he teaches me hokšíkilowaŋpi (to sing a lullaby); we are both cruelly out of tune. He is in Oglala Nation, I am in LA, and we perform our distance. He sings to me and I to him, a short melody. I watch LAPD helicopters out the window of 242 East Avenue 41 and compose a short drone.
- Cosmology
- Generation
- Invisibility
- System Failure
- The Body
- Visualization
Ghosts and Flowers
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I kept considering what happens when liminal space becomes static—how we are all stuck in this transition with the expectation of a return of normalcy, but in actuality there is no neutral, there is no normal. Normal is a veneer in which a few have the privilege of living under.
- Cosmology
- Extraction
- Generation
- Land and Sea
- System Failure
- The Body
- Visualization
ABOVE BELOW
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Colonialism is rooted in the planetary imagination which fails to account for histories of structural racism based on geologic relations and the violent dispossession of indigenous lands. This resulted in legacies of destructive cartography and mapping now used in machine vision in space.