KwaNTum Field Notes 2022 # 2: DiG/It/All Joo(N)k Join(T)
Com/PuTer ProCeSSing uNiT ComMend 2:
(S)HRMNKS: Poetic Archeology
The Sermon on the Warpland
The Mumbo Jumbo
The (K)Loud Sound System that AtTracts the DaNKing Crowd
Groovy!
The poly
rhythmic
melodic
theistic
The tricky notes of Homer in an Underground
The Harmony of ruins
The DyNaMiKS of heard and unheard
Rest
Joo(N)k
NoTes I TooK
While watching DoKuMeNTaries and watching Two CaTs Nita and Tito
Created home with the sound in our bodies
Resonant energy within our body
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Relationship with element
Diphthong combining vowels
Vs grounding the vowels with a consonant percussive
God’s chemical laboratory of redemption
Karma Mayet
In tune in text
Joo(N)k
Coded Bias
Science fabrication
Aspire mirror
Narrow AI
Math chess intelligence: ability to win at games?
Data is destiny
Data relies on history Past dwells in algorithms
Weapons of math destruction
Math a a shield for corruption
Machine learning
Who owns the fucking code
Historical info to make predictions
Scoring system for probability
Blind faith in data
Futures already here
The punitive harmful tools on poor people first
We don’t know how algorithms work?
We create and then the creation becomes a mystery to us
Replication of the world: we already have machine models
Machine bias
Habit becomes instinct
Sound overheard overscrutinized
We are being watched
Deciding what we deserve: automating favor for the rich and powerful
Predatory industries compete for poor
We compete for rich
Data collection algorithms surveillance power
Monopolies
Sus things out we don’t disclose
What are they predicting
Can machines see us know us
Computers learn fast
I am making predictions for your life right now
Agent dub
Algorithmic game oppression
I am a black box
Value added model
I misclassify and can’t be questioned
What are these scoring systems
Recidivism risk
Gatekeeping of work through automation
Computer made in theory own image
We’re all being scored
GDPR
Sometimes the human thing is not to do what you were programmed to do
Joo(N)k
13th
Ethics allows for nuanced critical thought
Refugees from terror
Notion of criminality transformed
Crime as code for race dog whistle politics only you can hear
Law? and order?
War on drugs?
Backlash to civil rights
A series of associations
A series of lies
Agenda propagation of an idea
Subtextures subliminal messaging
Re re re re re re re alty
Standards. Norms. See the perspectives around the norm
Mass incarceration
Southern strategy to win at any cost
Cutting taxes
Abstraction of a concrete jungle
Don’t believe the hype
Programming on media
Fear as a programmer
Who is the super predator?
Policies that criminalized their own children
Cannibalization
We make people their crimes
We have been programmed to be scared of ourselves
Primitive fear of the white imagination
Private stock prisons
Truth in sentencing Mandatory sentencing
Broken families
Criminalization of black dissent
Dis/sense against sensory deprivation against gatekeepers of sense
American legislative exchange council
Profit by any means
Corpses piling up Corpo/ration: the body’s knowledge
A steady influx of bodies to generate profit for shareholders
We rationalize death corpses that lay around us
Sb 1070
New permutations of a cancer
Privatization of our lives
Durable and reinvention of systems
Our entire country is a prison of surveillance and control
Community supervision
Our entire economy is prison labor
Wealth shapes outcomes
Redesigning of a caste system
Assembly of the chained
Projection of danger and guilt onto the screen of another’s body
But who is the projector?
Where is the movie coming from?
Didn’t appear out of nothing
But the product of a long historical process
Distortion of the screen
Why are you always stopping me?
The screen is your reflection
You are de/monster
Whose life is valuable
We humans seek the magnification of small rewards
Joo(N)k
40(0) Year Old Version
FYOV
Find your own voice
Find your own vision
(K)RadhaMUS Prime
Joo(N)k
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.
