Jose-Luis Moctezuma

Poems that follow systems of chance and divination to counter corrosive financial systems. Jose-Luis Moctezuma’s Black Box Syndrome is a series of poems—or “black boxes”—based on black hexagrams in the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination text. Following the aleatoric tradition popularised by the surrealists and extended by the work of John Cage and Jackson Maclow, these poems cast their...