how do we feel whole when the whole is not complete

an excerpt from Marie Hinson’s Please Remit My Qubits

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2 min readMay 3, 2020

Welcome to [RE:CON]CRETIONS! A new series of excerpts from our forthcoming and recent publications.

Today, OS collaborator Marie Hinson shares an excerpt from her new book, Please Remit My Qubits: a trans hex on the birth of quantum supremacy, available now from The Operating System.

[Image: A painting of a woman beside a window, with a man and woman and the facade of a building outside in the background. The edges of the image are pixelated. Cover design by Marie Hinson.]

GRACE

losing
the afterlife
i’m hell bent
that’s why i’m hell bent
to not trade in my life and death for
the life and death of capitalism
that is
that is
that is
to say
to say to say
that i want to extract
to make my own form aside
from the life and death of capitalism
another form
because there’s more
there’s more there’s more
there’s more there’s more
sometimes its just got to be said directly
so there’s something to be said
for the

Probable

the living is both the inside and
the outside and the needs don’t go away
to make some money to have some food, to have a
home
to be comfortable to be loved
to live in community
to have a soul

Section

the project is everything and nothing
everything and nothing to make it to the end
how do we feel whole when the whole is not complete

About the Author

[Image: Photo of Marie Hinson.]

Marie Hinson is an artist practicing in film, writing, performance, and cinematography. Originally from the mountains of rural Appalachia, she now works and lives in New York City. She completed her MFA in Film at Temple University in 2013 and is an alum of the Philadelphia based artist collective Vox Populi. Her work has shown in a number of group exhibitions and experimental film festivals as well as at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives, Scribe Video Center, Icebox Project Space, and Blackbox at Vox Populi.

mariehinson.com

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