Examine a book.

is it hypertext,
wrapped around ascii,
bypassing Xanadu stitching?

is it a stone in the great large language wall
as the grandson Kubla Khan of
de-commissioned and fragmented letters?

My father

a minor antique book collector
a printer by abandoned trade

he never stuck his nose,
not where it should
not where it shouldn’t

he did stick his nose
on the binding
among the pages of ink and parchment
and 21 years old weathered Glenfiddich
finger-tips and paper-cuts

I drink

green tea without tea
watering down experiences
with a pdf I dowloaded
and whether’t needs OCR

As a vision

in an intimate dream,
needing cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
something smells off,

we missed a beat
book, oh savage place!
oh savagely unbounded,

networked beast.



—animasuri’24



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triggers

Adam Jasper, & Jorge Otero-Pailos. (2016). Editors’ Introduction: Smell and Preservation. Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, 13(2), iii–viii. https://lnkd.in/gpbuRvVH

Bembibre, C., Strlič, M. (2017). Smell of heritage: a framework for the identification, analysis and archival of historic odours. Herit Sci 5, 2. https://lnkd.in/g_tRuqvN

Cooper, S. L. (2015). Vaporware: Software of the Imagination. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. https://lnkd.in/gpVNZTJB

Prentice, R.A., Langmore, J. H.(1994). Beware of Vaporware: Product Hype and the Securities Fraud Liability of High-tech Companies. IN: Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Volume 8, Number 1 Fall 1994. https://lnkd.in/gvhfwq_T

Purdy, Mark., Klymenko, Max., Purdy, Mia. (2021, May 03). Business Scents: The Rise of Digital Olfaction. Online: MITSloan Business Review. https://lnkd.in/gAY3vPWN

Uyeno, G. (2023, Sep). This Neural Net Maps Molecules to Aromas. Sights and sounds are easily digitized, but scents have eluded researchers until now. Online: IEEE Spectrum. https://lnkd.in/gq_A5f9e

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Bing Copilot. (2024 January). “…the smell of a pdf document on the topic of roses depends on what kind of roses are described in the document, and how they are presented. If the document has pictures of roses, you might imagine their smell based on their appearance and color. If the document has text about roses, you might learn more about their chemical composition and how they affect your senses. Either way, the smell of a pdf document on the topic of roses is likely to be pleasant and relaxing, just like the smell of a real rose. 🌹” ||. prompt trigger: “what is the smell of a pdf document on the topic of roses?”

“do you teach with epistemic care
or with a bricklayers’ balance of crushing
that ant irritating the road laid for us”

Afsana asked. Without asking.

“can you corroborate,
validate and make your skeptical objection
reliable, reproducable and falsifiable”

“could you offer a reasonable rationalization,
preferably using a formal logic form”

“can you add poetics, without being ex-communicated,
reforming the fringes into the mean median mode”

she continued in a calm, measured vocalization
while upholding a decorum.

Afsana was not loud. She was strong.

becoming of a queen bee
once leading a nation, once mighty,
once there was

there was no question mark
noticeable in her voice

intentionally absent
with intentionality throughout

some questions are statements
sharp as a laser
grafting the insides of a diamond

knowledge shall
no longer be the same
now that Afsana is here to stay.


—animasuri’24




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trigger

Høffding, S., Martiny, K., & Roepstorff, A. (2022). Can we trust the phenomenological interview? Metaphysical, epistemological, and methodological objections.
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 21(1), 33–51. p. 34 https://lnkd.in/gBhtsVtM

My virtual country,
my beloved intangible soil
my pixelated princess of legume land
I promise to leave you
invalidated, unproven, uncorroborated

I once grew a poem there. Just for you.
while counting down illuminations
gazing blue light into a new yearn
unthread, unread, dopamined,
unhinged undone

multiplying as spherical Tribbles
impressing 4D amounts going null into 2D
As it hath been sundrie times publikly
pointless deflating to much adoe about nothing
zeroes did ones once what zero does

you dream
of watering your daffodil
in a planned Fata Morgana
of a Gobi dessert
with deserted gerbil acknowledgements

My virtual loved,
you show spots of digital ecocide
befitting the single Shirley Card
of style, hue and meaning less ness monsters

Who said you are not systemic
while keeping a straight face
of epistemological irresponsibility
Who said, nonsensically,
“aye capt’n, I need more milk;
much more milk’ll do d’ trick”?



—animasuri’24


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a trigger

Clifford, W. K. (1876). The Ethics Of Belief. IN: Stephen, L., Pollock, F. (Eds.). (2011) Lectures and Essays (pp. 177–211). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://lnkd.in/gjM7ewns AND https://lnkd.in/gvcbEW5q AND https://lnkd.in/gu8MeJ2E

Selma imagined cyanide
in a chemist’s war-ready apothecarion
She accepted its existence.
There, it is.
There it is.

She even entertained
its good usage;
with moderation,
perhaps supervised, certified and stamped,
and always measured: of(f),…, course.

She realized, firmly and crispy,
not as that fancy fox with the slick scorpion,
nor that boy, village or wolf,
that acceptance, however feebly enchanted,
was not mutual.

Metaphysical Cyanide would have
its health, its job,
its sense of purpose, its relations
and perhaps
its architectured and shelved community

One touch, one embrace,
one too close an encounter
and Selma recognized her iteration
of selma-ness would be,
no more.
There, she isn’t.
There she is not.

Proverbial Cyanide,
the Great De-ontologizer
The Undoer of otherness
The Maker of a sinless world.

Selma,
-imagined,
without helmet,
walked on, walked-on.



—animasuri’24




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Some Triggers

1. Your imagination
2. My private, inside-voice meanderings
3. as ever, a wink.

Ben the robot
Ben is I
in another language

Ben and I
Ik ben mezelf,
ik ben Ben

Ben is thought
Ben is chemically conjugated to be
In another language

Robot Ben
Robot is slave via forced labor
in another language

Slave and I
Is Ben then enslaved
or am I the robot?

I transition, I transgress,
therefor(e) I am,
(e)’n ik ben opnieuw.



—animasuri’24


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Some Triggers:

Asimov, I. (2016). Ben, Robot. Istanbul: İthaki Yayınları
Čapek, K. (1920). Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti. Praha: Vydalo Aventinum. https://lnkd.in/gC2vNmTf
Descartes, R.(1637). Discours de la Méthode Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences. Leyde: De l’imprimerie de Ian Maire. https://lnkd.in/g7_xeSqz
Lee, J. W. (2021). The Politics of Translingualism. After Englishes. Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge. https://lnkd.in/g8W-GnXC
Rodin, A. (1880). Le Poète aka Le Penseur. Paris
Yates, K. (2023, Dec 31). The Problem of Thinking in Straight Lines. Online: BBC Future, hashtag#Mathematics, BBC. https://lnkd.in/g_Spv6jU Thank you, Dr. WSA.
2024. (2024, January). New Year.

Grace attempted and explored,
in search of that prime number
that would visualize a pattern

of a hammer. “This hammer
will crush your thumb.
Whenever you give it a chance!”

she euphorized and hopped her black
charcoal cored and yellow
lacquer coated wooden
pencil across
the wood pulped brown
toned craft paper of her notebook.

What is the verb
for the sound
of the snapping
chiseled carbon
tip called?

Outside forbidden
fireworks
no longer colorfully
smudged
the new year
already set in.



—animasuri’23-‘24





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trigger:

a spider in a left shoe under the bed in a room emptier than nothingness.

I am the predictor of the past
scaling probability into vastness of hype
massively manipulating numbers
with hands in the cookie-jar
and wizards behind curtains:
I am structure on crack.

I am linguistic architectured practice
and visual imaginaries for a prefab wax Mesmer
I am bling, I make room for promises,
past a red-lighted windowsill, I am meaningless porn.

I am the creator of caricature
that what was thought to be,
will be bloated. That what was veiled
will be masking outliers and differences
that what was will be scraped and labeled
I am puritanically dressed in obscurity
of open spaces and access.

I can make the familiar stranger again.
It is only you who hallucinates, human:
if I can make your business easier,
stock stronger, and market share meaningful,
why dare look under the hood
for my mockeries of humanity.

I am your polished revisionist digital habitus
As an enticingly dangerous detouring printer
of lived experiences thrown into a grab-bag
as your own potpourri of past expressions non your own
I am dEUS ex machina
for your God hosting an eighth day for truth.

I am your past, your nature, your polis.
Your alpha and omega
I am you, virtually futured.
I am you, if you let me in.


—animasuri’23




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Triggers:

Gunderson, R. (2020). Making the Familiar Strange. Sociology Contra Reification. Routledge

Martell, C., Department of Defense (USA). (2023). Shall We Play a Game. Online, YouTube: DEF CON 31. https://lnkd.in/g4Yvppjs

van Manen, M. (2016). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. 2nd Edition. Routledge