Overview

The piece opens:

β€œTo - day we shall use a previous substack as snipped offerings to the Ba’al A.I.”

Among its named sections or movements are ALT IMG TXT p r e s e n t s, π‹πŽπ‘πƒ πˆππ•π€πƒπ„π‘β€™π’ π€ππŽπ‚π€π‹π˜ππ“πˆπ‚ π‚π‹πˆπ π’π‡πŽπ–, ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix, XENOCHROMA, ah cut, ah wing, ah loo, lo hey, ATAVISTIC AVATAR.

Notable features

  • Cut-Up Method Stated as Explicit Procedure, Feeding AI Generation β€” "THE RULES OF IT: Decontextualized snatches of text as originally written & formatted, clipped (APPLY: cut-up, mild) and left in order, followed by generated imagery." This piece states its own compositional method outright as a named procedure β€” Burroughs/Gysin cut-up applied to the author's own prior Substack posts, with the clipped fragments used as prompts for AI-generated images. Direct.
  • "Reality's in Repeats" β€” Refrain as Framing Device β€” A four-line alternating-emphasis refrain ("Reality's in repeats," bold/unbold alternating) functions as a ritual framing statement before the cut-up procedure begins β€” refrain used to mark the threshold between ordinary reading mode and the piece's altered procedural mode, similar in function to a stage direction cueing a scene change.

Connections

Selected quotations

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 957 words Β· 58 image elements Β· 0 embedded-media elements Β· 31 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Escape, Exit & Containment Β· Camera, Image & Frame Β· Gods, Devils, Ritual & Magic Β· Eyes, Looking & Witness Β· Animals & Nonhuman Figures.

Nearby publications: ← SUNA RALOS SUN A RALOS SUN A RA LOS Β  Β· Β  Blown Dust, Tactless Data Loss β†’

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 1,004 words Β· 58 image elements Β· 0 embedded-media elements Β· 25 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • ALT IMG TXT p r e s e n t s
  • This shit’s intensive.
  • XENOCHROMA
  • stagger backward
  • where you’re so, so aware of The Music
  • ah cut, ah wing, ah loo, lo hey
  • ATAVISTIC AVATAR
  • many I’ed all summoned
  • HELL’S REAL HEART OF IT ALL
  • They’d be by to burn your village or spoil your soil or signal or dam your water damn your intentions nighttime unmentionables:
  • YOU ! Look upon me now and hear sad music! HORNS AND STRINGS!
  • BACK TO IT β‡’βž€
  • [end - - -
  • WELL , WELL , WELL .
  • …and 11 further heading-marked turns.

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

Apophoenix Β· Cagliostro Β· Xenochroma Β· Xenochroma Β· Lost Eros

References linked directly from the publication

Publication

Published 2022-07-17. Read the original publication β†—