The Cryptodrone Sequence
THE CRYPTODRONE SEQUENCE is a simulation glitch; a cipher; a queer assemblage diary with a cut-up persona—much like Kathy Acker's Janey Smith from Blood and Guts in High School; an anarcho-punk-bot-tremor using as its source material a technical handbook on computer network security, as well as some chewed-up texts from Jean Genet, Édouard Glissant, Clarice Lispector and others who together constitute this poetic intervention. This booklnegth poem speaks into a larger body of art-making that pulses at the intersection of race, technology, and the occult—one signaling expressions of blackness that subvert their mediating technologies.
Madison McCartha is a black poet and multimedia artist whose work appears in Black Warrior Review, DREGINALD, The Fanzine, Full Stop, jubilat, The Pinch, and elsewhere. His writing has received support from Winter Tangerine, The Millay Colony for the Arts, and he was shortlisted for the 2019-2021 CAAPP Creative Writing Fellowship. Madison holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, where he received the Samuel and Mary Anne Hazo Award in Creative Writing, and is currently a PhD student and Regents Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
