Overview

The piece opens:

“AUTHOR : 𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐄 names an otherwise identitiless continuous energy materially located primarily in Los Angeles, California.”

Among its named sections or movements are Viewer distractions are obliged., Starts now , ｋｉｄ:, Animals are great because they don’t understand fame., a “cellphone” appears., 𝑹𝑼𝑰𝑵𝑬𝑫 𝑰𝑳𝑳𝑼𝑺𝑰𝑶𝑵., 𝗟𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗺𝗲..

Notable features

  • "JQD" as Explicitly Depersonalized Name — Direct authorial statement: "JAMES QUENTIN DEVINE names an otherwise identityless continuous energy... not to be understood as applicable to anything like a 'person' or 'personality.' Persona(e/s) may recur." This is the multiple-voicing/fictional-persona-as-compression principle stated as literal policy rather than inferred from craft — the byline itself is declared a vessel, not an identity.
  • Refusal of Photographic Representation, Tied to Aniconism — "JAMES QUENTIN DEVINE PREFERS NOT TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED" — a real-world stated preference that connects directly to the ANI̶C̶O̶N̶ISM piece's struck-through-title enactment of image-prohibition (logged in batch 7). What looked like a one-off typographic gimmick in that piece turns out to be a recurring actual stance. Worth treating as one throughline rather than two separate entries.

Connections

Selected quotations

  • “I AM AN EXTREMELY SENSITIVE PERSON IN A WORLD THAT OBLITERATES ME.”
    — Damn Spot, 2022 [maxim / typographic fragment]

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 692 words · 1 image element · 1 embedded-media element · 33 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Escape, Exit & Containment · Death, Ghosts & Posthumousness · Mouth, Voice & Utterance · Eyes, Looking & Witness · Poison, Drugs & Intoxication.

Nearby publications: ← 99942 Apophis (Causal Encounters)   ·   ɘPISODIˣˣˣ 1.1: How Many Licks Can You Count To, Kid? →

Lexical fingerprint

Stastistician [Probable corpus formation]

These are source-attested formations indexed for lexical distinctiveness; inclusion does not assert global first use.

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 863 words · 1 image element · 1 embedded-media element · 13 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • Viewer distractions are obliged.
  • Starts now , ｋｉｄ:
  • SPED-RED REGRESSION:
  • Animals are great because they don’t understand fame.
  • a “cellphone” appears.
  • * scarcely a phone at-all anymore
  • ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY
  • SCAN ME
  • (audience slavishly —
  • Aren’t we all?
  • THIS IS YOUR SAVASANA.
  • I USE AN ESSENTIAL OIL BLEND.
  • IF YOU’D LIKE FOR ME TO PASS YOU OVER LEAVE ONE HAND ON YOUR BELLY.

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

Los Angeles · The Kid

Publication

Published 2022-09-29. Read the original publication ↗