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The Algorithmic Poetics of @GlissantBot
"The Algorithmic Poetics of @GlissantBot" treats sound as force, showing how vibration, sonic fiction, or acoustic design reorganize affective and political space.
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Core idea
These texts argue that sound is not mere accompaniment to culture. Vibration, bass, and auditory design act directly on bodies, spaces, and publics, making sonic theory a theory of force.
They work by turning acoustics into logistics, atmosphere into pressure, and listening into environmental relation. Sonic fiction and sonic warfare describe how sound reorganizes situations before it is interpreted.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's strongest account of affective mediation. Audio culture becomes a way of thinking force, mood, and coordination together.
How to read this text
Read for how the page moves from music or noise toward vibration, pressure, or environmental effect.
Keep an eye on where listening becomes spatial or political. Those moments usually carry the page's strongest claims.
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Definition · paragraph 5
The Algorithmic Poetics of @GlissantBot Kodwo Eshun 101 100 insists that the computer can operate simultaneous poetic systems but cannot access the “vivid contrast among the languages of the world” from which the “desiring flesh” of the poem is assembled.37 Each time Glissant insists upon an anthropic limit from which computation is categorically excluded.
Definition · paragraph 6
The Algorithmic Poetics of @GlissantBot Kodwo Eshun 103 102 the “intrinsic value of the small-scale model compensates for the renunciation of sensible dimensions by the acquisi- tion of intelligible dimensions.”45 @GlissantBot functions as the small-scale or, more precisely, the interscalar model that allows the inhuman scale of creolization to acquire intel- ligible dimensions.
Definition · paragraph 4
The Algorithmic Poetics of @GlissantBot Kodwo Eshun 99 98 The Algorithmic Poetics of @GlissantBot 99 syntactical sequences that can add up to sequences ranging from one character to one hundred and forty characters.
Definition · paragraph 4
The numbers of the digital clock progress discretely one integer at a time while the arms of the analogue clock move according to a continuous motion. Time elapses for @GlissantBot in intervals of fifteen minutes, which means that @GlissantBot runs on a discrete-time Markov chain or a DTMC. @GlissantBot returns to the reconfiguration of poetry, poetics, and poetic knowledge by computation initiated by Glissant during the 1980s.
Definition · paragraph 1
Chude-Sokei moves in and with the movement of thought of synthesis-genesis until it begins to reconfigure the traditional figures of the cyborg, the posthu- man, evolution, and computation and finds itself reconfigured by the movement of its thought outside of itself. In The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics, Chude- Sokei argues that Donna Haraway’s influential formulation that the “boundary between human and animal is thoroughly brea
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.