The Daily Glance
Louis Cabri's The Mood Embosser is an anti-book: anti-capitalism, anti-dehumanization, anti-conformity. The sections divisions are labeled 0,1,0,1,0,1,0 in binary, and the titles are suggestive, such as "social logic," "Slung low -- sell high," and "So how's the Dow."
Louis Cabri's The Mood Embosser is an anti-book: anti-capitalism, anti-dehumanization, anti-conformity. The sections divisions are labeled 0,1,0,1,0,1,0 in binary, and the titles are suggestive, such as "social logic," "Slung low -- sell high," and "So how's the Dow."
AdoptCabri is commenting on the system and in so doing is trying to get us to reexamine our relationships with capitalism. He brings in things like indexes and cliched language to refocus our attention away from the high-speeds of hyperspace back to the breathing space of the individual.
a dollar.
Good investors
fight human nature at every turn.
-- Verbatim letter to fund
holders. Words
only
coming many in
so ways.
we all screenIs this information overload? Language confusion suffered at our current speeds? Perhaps he's suggesting that we've moved from interpretation to compilation to database of information without information as synthesized into something, and really, without synthesis, where is insight?
for I screens this
body over.
I am not a muse.
Here alone but for interpellation
thanks to interpellation
disarm your tone.
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