Poetic Operations: Online Companion

Code Poetry Library

In a poetic mode, I have described both Kara Keeling’s black femme function and Janelle Monae’s ability to dance between identities through code poetry in my performance of “Femme Disturbance” at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics31. The code poems follow.
 
femmeDisturbance.keeling.blackFemmeFunction () { 
delete visibility;
if( commonSense.disrupt(racist) && commonSense.disrupt(sexist) && commonSense.disrupt(heteronormative) )
{
//once these forms of commonsense have been disrupted
//exit this entire computational paradigm and
//split off into a new imaginary computational system
//yet to be defined
fork(blackFemme(revolutionary, anticapitalist));
}
}


femmeDisturbance.janelleMonae.flickerBetweenRealities(){

//initialize
delete race;
delete gender;
delete humanity;

//flicker
while ( perform(androidNotHuman) ) {
miscegenate( human );
//literally
go(insane);
danceDefyingGravity();
}
}
 


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