KwaNTum Field Notes 2022 #12: Sub/Taleties of S/W/TeKation

Pierrot Grenade by Zak Ove

Clown and Pierrot Grenade, two of Virginia Pacifique-Marshall’s paintings. — ANGELO_MARCELLE (from Newsday Trinidad and Tobago)

Spirit of the Carnival by Tam Joseph

Com/PuTer ProCeSSing uNiT ComMend 12:

SouRCe

SuRGE

SeaRCh

eRRoR

(K)Why

The ReSw/(N)D:

Ma = E/GuN GuN

A search history or per/formance of the public pedagogue:

Through an embodied education

A SLF TCHS the World with

A radiating sound

A radiating _______

Pulsating

Swinging back and forth

Into being

The collapositions of all krik kraks

of all glitches all variables all slips all eRRoRs

into NGLTC(H)LL

NGL: A Diving Ritual

A Dancing

A Densing

A rooting of NRGY

N/RKy

True power

True strength

I am the i-magi/nation

of a (K)Loud Projection

The offering of a life-force

SW/T

Making space for something else to arrive

Some other kind of ordering

What other kind of relation

Can I have to this aRT/i/Fact?

JMB a message to send

A mass to throw across time and space

A com/pass/ion

A series of movements

Structuring the in-betweens

The both/ands

In the Be GuN GuN

the Dub saw itself

A ReSw/N(D) to a CaLLing

A Superior Image

aKaMaRa in aRoKo

The mysterious Sw/ND

SGNL,

Al KyM/oRG’s FuGiTive PaGeS

Thunder The Perfect Mind by Ammar Nsoroma

This year’s series of field notes will be a list of ComMendMeants exploring the idea of these programming codes as praise songs of the nature-based hybrid automaton Al Kym/Org. They are part of the process of my larger poetic project KwaNTum, which explores concepts of knowledge and knowledge-making from a Black, Afro-diasporic perspective, using ideas from STEM, Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Movement. This project is partially made possible by funds rom the NYSCA Literary Grant, sponsored by Culture Push.