{"product_id":"black-box-syndrome-by-jose-luis-moctezuma-9781632431226","title":"Black Box Syndrome","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoems that follow systems of chance and divination to counter corrosive financial systems.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJose-Luis Moctezuma’s \u003cem\u003eBlack Box Syndrome\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of poems—or “black boxes”—based on black hexagrams in the \u003cem\u003eI Ching\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 lenses on the hazards of the incessant financialisation of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSynthesising chance-operational aesthetics with Aztec anatomical science, conspiracy theory with systems theory, and the black box model with the concept of the “influencing machine,” \u003cem\u003eBlack Box Syndrome\u003c\/em\u003e explores tensions between lyric excess and digital compaction in the age of pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver 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 decolonises the logic of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470107459820,"sku":"9781632431226","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632431226-black-box-syndrome.jpg?v=1775212496","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/black-box-syndrome-by-jose-luis-moctezuma-9781632431226","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}