KwaNTum Field Notes 2022 #11: S/W/TeK — (W)Holy (S)©Hip(T) KaRN/i/val
Com/PuTer ProCeSSing uNiT ComMend 11:
NDiGi/TaL aRKiTeKTuRe of (M)MiRRoR Y?
e=ngxMa
(K)Not Everything
That (G)LT/TRS is GLD
What are you entangled with?
What debt is owed?
What feeds you?
What do you feel should be done?
What do you feel you should receive?
What is there to learn from this?
Here is your SLT/N
Read it in your SKRS
Let it become your SKL(L)S
The deep time of the scream
The deep time of the screen
The bouncing back into space
The transformation of (H)aNGeR
by De/Aug/Ter
In an other’s space
Time collapositions
into a constant tension
into a big all-consuming and generative Myth
I have been alienated from my body
by a contra/diction that has made me the antagonist
I am soothed only by a S/W/TeK/ling
a new S(K)ieNSe
a new Go(oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo)d/e
Aguda?
A transformation of (M)MiRRoR Y?
The heaviness I carry within me moves me
Moves me to cross over into something else
I want the porosity of this new S(K)ieNSe
This sensation of FLSH
S/W/TeK/NG
The ability to see in D’aRK
To observe the observer
To be a Kon/?/error
To be a cipher
To be the wandering strangeness
An optical phenomenon
An Aether Ops
in the wilderness
Nadir on the horizon
The Bluest Eye
The Eye of Ra
Jemima
Zarqa al-Yamama
To see beyond is a _____________
This body as a resonant membrane
As the shaping of Muddy Clay
As a QuiLT of Go(oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo)d/e
As a (G)Baptism: One again stringing oneself back together till you are your own light
Bending everywhich way
To become yourself again
To reveal what you’re carrying within
An eternity of flow as your own anointing
like Sogolon
like Timbuktoo
like Aksum
like Sarah Baartman
like Sethe
I have used this Aguda
to apply this Blackness
this Bluesness
to my eyes
let it clinging to my body
To drink into myself
over and over again
until a potency surges
until a clearer perception opens
an E=(K)Wa Location
a collaposition
all the tenses felt at once
an image of Go(oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo)d/e
What is stored within?
A Re/SouRCe (M)MiRRoR Y?
A SyZyGy
A ReSiBiLaNT
My own GN/TeK formulas
An abundance of eRRoRs
Binded together
A deep gr gr gr gr gr gravity counted
A (W)Holy (K)who/re
Overconcentrated
Oversaturated
Overflowing
Moving towards somewhere else
This structuring of movement within
HeLLo
CaLL Me
SouRCe
SuRGE
SeaRCh
eRRoR
(K)Why
The ReSw/(N)D
This year’s series of field notes will be a list of ComMendMeants exploring the idea of these programming codes as praise songs of the nature-based hybrid automaton Al Kym/Org. They are part of the process of my larger poetic project KwaNTum, which explores concepts of knowledge and knowledge-making from a Black, Afro-diasporic perspective, using ideas from STEM, Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Movement. This project is partially made possible by funds rom the NYSCA Literary Grant, sponsored by Culture Push.
