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WHAT ONE WANTS AND WHAT WILL BE PRESCRIBED
A CHAPBOOK
by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
with contributing author Nicholas DeBoer
That with musicloud and long
I would build thatdome in air,
That sunny dome!those caves of ice!
And all who heardshould see them there,
And all should cry,Beware! Beware!
–Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”
The space of desire,
a destiny modulation
likea pinprick
appleblossomon a breeze
enforces a predilection for
what declines or is on the wane
((lastaboriginal blooms of the sun-kissed kashmir
WELCOME TOMMORPGWORLD
The outside and in
now submerged into a tectonic relation–
what is seen and not, transmitted
or held closely in private, a dream
((wherecontraries and contradictions are disregarded
I can pay you to observe me in my throes.
Enter the sensorama,powered by
FutureYuan, trade commodity of virtuality in stereoscopic3D!
“technology is so tethered to ourlives
thatit can leave a more specific and
lasting imprint of a humanlife
thanhistory has ever allowed before”
the naked city
a constant “new babylon”
echo
gateway
dither
antiquity
zenerwaves
Qiu Chengwei stabbed Zhu Caoyuan in the chest
when he found out he had sold his virtual sword
<7,200Yuan (£473)>
Memories from his detention at Jixi
re-education-through-labour camp in
Heilongjiang province still haunt Liu.
As well as backbreaking mining toil,
he carved chopsticks, toothpicks out of
planks of wood
assembled car seat covers
memorized communist literature to
pay off his debt to society.
By night, he was forced to slay demons,
battle goblins and cast spells
“wekept playing until we could barely see things”
when novelty stands for value–
to refute, tally the things gathered
to preclude their circulation
paperflowers and their folds
memoryof the wind whipping over the sea
aprisoner’s garment
noblesseof the rehabilitated mind
gulag as space for disciplined productivity
And the terms for the ordeal,
like speakeasies in the despoticcorners of the
trigram omniverse–they unfold as
a negated banality in narration,its designs.
So many syntactic structuresblown away by
continuously transforming globalcurrencies–
fromwon, to bento, to dragoon to coral smear
((nearly £1.2bnof make-believe
romana clef
asense of absence
riveninto time
prescientliminality love
theweight of fiber-optic silk
syncsour speech
Why is there such enmity between strangers?
The desert. How it magnifies–
heatas bondage
starkquality night
blind moon
(blight a towering hesitation theearth that is
(toward the ache, slip offingerbone left there
“The system accurately seizes on the weaknesses of humannature as it calls on gamers to give free reign to depravity in a virtual worldthat violates the norms of the real world. It gives to those that wage war thepower of indiscriminate killing, and it bestows on killers the rewards of increasedexperience. And the system makes note of your decapitation record. That seriesof numbers is the height of glory, like an Indian warrior’s string of scalps,while all that the dead gain is disgrace.”
incompletehand prints
cutframes the well
these our source codes
mullover the
translationruins
You don’t have any security. Maybe you should take an escort.
The “pastoral region” once straddling the borderlands of thedissolved nations of Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia finallysuccumbed to the destructive cycles of flash flood and drought. Where countlessgenerations had depended upon shepherding as the primary means for support,cattle no longer serve as the means to attain security, wealth, or power. Asconditions worsened, the cattle raids grew more frequent and fierce–even asthe number of cattle in the region diminished. In time, cattle was no longer aconsideration: young men began to raid for glory, honor, and–mostimportantly–revenge.
***may be PrimeDot’s most successful launch yet. The company seems to havecompletely rethought its strategy on how *** should look and feel, and theresults are nothing if not striking. Instead of hewing to the curved, bezeledlook, the company has turned the casing and face of *** into something decidedly more detailed andsophisticated. The materials feel good — premium — in your hands.
what is the mechanism of “free trade” bywhich
a person is allowed to have a certainindividuality
themesh, loose
rendera people
outof desire
anexperiment of the self:
Though she has invested tens of
thousands of yuan in the game,
she has suffered defeat after defeat
due to the fact that others are
more willing to spend, and
to spend much more money than she.
shalli be savage when the banks
crumblein the dust of this world
madeextravagance & strong
((The system loves war
museums of glass cases
covered
bicameraltension
coinsilver/purple under eyelids
boilthere
cumlit a gamma-ray pop in em
voxmemo records a blank slide
projectedface down huffing sand
outsides of my mouth
Notes:
This piece was originally composed as part of acollaborative project on aberrant futures, written with contributions fromNicholas DeBoer and constructed with Cara Benson, Rachel Levitsky, and DanaTeen Lomax. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have worked withthem.
All photos are by Nicholas DeBoer.
Because this text borrows extensively, with minimal edits,we would like to credit our sources.
Other source materials include:
Vincent, Danny.“China Used Prisoners in Lucrative Internet Gaming Work.” The GuardianMay 25, 2011.<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam>
Topolsky, Joshua.“iphone 4 review,” Endgadget June 22, 2010. <http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/iphone-4-review/>
“Chinese GamerSentenced to Life.” BBC News Online June 8, 1995.<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4072704.stm>
Martinsen, Joel.“Gamble Your Life Away on ZT Online,” Danwei December 26, 2007.<http://www.danwei.org/electronic_games/gambling_your_life_away_in_zt.php>
Parenti,Christian. Tropicof Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. NewYork, NY: Nation Books, 2011.
Totilo, Stephen.“In The Virtual World, His Fiancee Never Died.“ Kotaku May 27, 2011.<http://kotaku.com/5806088/in-the-virtual-world-his-fiancee-never-died>