{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJose-Luis Moctezuma\u003c\/b\u003e is a Xicano poet based in Chicago. He is the author of a chapbook, \u003ci\u003e Spring Tlaloc Seance\u003c\/i\u003e, and the book \u003ci\u003ePlace-Discipline\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Omnidawn. His poetry and criticism have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePostmodern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJacket2\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eModernism\/modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Omnidawn Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526042292498,"sku":"9781632431226","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_534d0e9b-b51e-4668-83ba-dae6f41436f9.jpg?v=1731257513","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-box-syndrome-9781632431226","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}