{"product_id":"black-box-syndrome-9781632431226","title":"Black Box Syndrome","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems that follow systems of chance and divination to counter corrosive financial systems.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jose-Luis Moctezuma's \u003ci\u003eBlack Box Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of poems--or \"black boxes\"--based on black hexagrams in the\u003ci\u003e I Ching\u003c\/i\u003e, an ancient Chinese divination text. Following the aleatoric tradition popularized by the surrealists and extended by the work of John Cage and Jackson Maclow, these poems cast their lenses on 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,\" \u003ci\u003eBlack Box Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e explores tensions between lyric excess and digital compaction 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jose-Luis Moctezuma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omnidawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 6.10w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632431226","brand":"Omnidawn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439372603529,"sku":"9781632431226","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0816caca-0a0c-43f6-96d8-72150cb12e2c.jpg?v=1715814544","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/black-box-syndrome-9781632431226","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}