PROGRAMMED SPONTANEITY
Poem to the Algorithm
"A few days ago, a streaming platform I’m on recommended the song _Technologic, by Daft Punk. The lyrical looping had me confronted with the rotational nature of intimate and personal relationships through the digital. I dedicate this text to you, Algorithm, so as to let you know about my virtual routine - it is not about distrusting your ability to observe - nor of my impressions of this virtual dynamicas a foundation for socialization. I confess I was grateful for the algorithm having brought this song back my way, much as I found it funny to recognize that the algorithm responsible for the virtual and digital cyclicality of internet social relations was the one pointing out to me an insult against the system which they themselves are part of. I hope only to open a more earnest channel of communication, and a less dramatic _connection." [Excerpt from the poem Programmed Spontaniety, Vitoria Cribb]
