‘Watch this performance carefully, for you are witnessing a new concept of modern warfare.’
notes on the poems: ‘New Tarzon Guided Bomb Hits Bull’s-Eye!’ (American voice-over) and ‘Bomb With A Brain Aka “The Tarzon” Guides Itself To Targets’ (British voice-over): narration borrowed from British Pathé 1952 newsreel.
Cover photograph © Crodriguesc
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
‘One starless night, I was stranded. Needless to say, foreigners are often stranded.’
‘I think people who ape the sentiments of others often go on to believe the thing they said. It becomes their opinion.’
Juliet Jacques and Iphgenia Baal discuss early digital cultures, precarity and social architecture.
‘Words only point to experience, they can’t replace it.’
Vanessa Onwuemezi and Colin Herd discuss UFOs, relation, and the search for an inner sense of home.
‘I get into the police car with four officers from the Anti-Terrorism Branch. They are taking me to the prison.’
