Does your device suffice?

And do your devices cause crisis?

Not for the gorillas or the coltan miners. I mean, screw them, right? They should get with the (shareware) programme.

I don’t care about that crime screen- sorry, scene.  Neither do you.

We can screen it out, rope it off, easy as we like. With a vintage audio cassette – cracked like a human skull by a terminator’s curved steel foot- that  tape spooling out spooling out.

Grab some of that metallic brown shiny stuff that nobody under, what, 40, knows what I am talking about, how you’d stick a pencil into the spool and twist your wrist, twist one off your wrist.
There’s no analog to that, in a digital age, is there?

Maybe refreshing the refreshing the refreshing. Ping ping ping?  I don’t know, I’m too old for this shit.

You’re never too old to be an addict?  Where was I?  Am I? Was I?  Diverted, distracted

It’s happening a lot, of late.
Audio tape! Crime screnes in the Congo!  I lose my metaphors in my metadata, mater.

Like entrails, like small intestine from some idiot who didn’t know they were going to bomb the fucking market today.  I mean, don’t you follow ISIS on twitter? Hello?

We tape off the scene from our Is.  To keep us out or the bodies in, who knows.

Or cares.

Move on, nothing to see here, nothing to be seen screen scream here.

We please ourselves, we police ourselves, we police each other.  Foucault

Bentham, Georgie

They’d be laughing like drains, but the panoptic is the

Wrong optic.
We’ve come to the other end of the spectrum.

The plectrum – the plastic on the string – is the

Music of total situational awareness,

Our tabs are keeping tabs on us. The browser browses both ways.

The spectrum is the plectrum is

the tool is the

panspectron that gives us

Permanent global summer time, permanent global

Simmer time. Permanent global

Burning time.

Bruler n’est pas repondre.
We eat, it, we breathe it. We can’t smell it.  We were not born free, and everyone where we are in chains

Value chains

Production chains

Chains of chains.

How else do you run a global society?  Damn it man.  Would you have us live in caves? There are seven plus billion of us. Are you some sort of luddite?

Fuck the planet. I mean, seriously, like, what has it done for me lately? But

what about you?

Do you splinter in the reflections, the injections of digital botox of factoids and memes – mememememe.

Do you deafen yourself with the Instagram-a-phone? Do you throw your balls on the snapchatroulette?

All technologies will be the end of us, it has been ever thus.  The phone was going to kill off visiting your neighbours, true fact.  The radio, the television.  Fear of the new, it’s how we’re…

Dare I say wired?

And but this time – like and unlike all the other times – is different.  No, really, there’s an

MRI , I, I, to prove it…

The cynics can sigh

The users can sign in

There’s apps for that, and it’s all bad for our synapses, if you believe what you read on the…

Um… Internet.

Meanwhile, those gorillas aren’t getting any less dead, and polar bears aren’t getting any

Fatter.  And the fear in the atmosphere

Is curving upwards, like a … thing that is

Keeling. Over.

And when the anthropologists arrive from Mars – either because they were there all along,

Or they come back in a thousand years, to find their cryogenic master Elon Musk, and pop him in the microwave for more words of wisdom.
They will look through the record – the fossil record.

And will they have been able to have said anything other than– ‘who the hell did these people think they WERE?’