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."
Adopt
a dollar.

Good investors
fight human nature at every turn.
-- Verbatim letter to fund

holders. Words

only

coming many in
so ways.
Cabri 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.
we all screen
for I screens this

body over.
I am not a muse.

Here alone but for interpellation

thanks to interpellation
disarm your tone.
Is 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?

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