@builtwithapathy

sure, you’ve got a handle on the past.
[23. interested in personhood + the inhuman.]

new poem by me just dropped in amok issue 1 which i don't think will be sold internationally so i have decided to post it here in full. yay!

you think so much. You could think about a door for a hundred years and it would stay closed.

i know everyone has mentioned the ‘it could be a we problem’ line but i’m still obsessed w the concept of three trying to coerce secunit onto its side when it’s beefing with ART. heyy bestie will you tell the massive malignant supercomputer that’s in love w you that i did nothing wrong♥️♥️♥️

When I began trying to imagine speaking from even more radically nonhuman points of view, such as an MRI, or the ocean floor, I realized it was becoming, for me, an increasingly urgent practice—in both an ecological and a theological sense. An instruction.

Obviously, it is an illusion. I cannot speak from the point of view of the ocean, the seafloor. But it is a profoundly operative illusion. The attempt changes one. Radically. It changes one’s size, one’s sense of one’s centrality as the speaker; it compels a kind of radical imagination of otherness. You try to feel your own unlikeness. It’s instructive as a poetic and spiritual action, and it also carried over, for me, into my political sense of my “being”—not just my philosophical sense of my “being at all.” Who is this speaking? That became a question I asked in many ways in multiple books. It felt—it feels—important not to know the answer to that question. It also feels destabilizing in a very fruitful way to keep putting oneself in a situation where one is required to ask it.