i've fallen victim to officialese.

[Alan Sondheim]

i've fallen victim to officialese.
i believe strongly that because there are substructures to my work,
that it far and away deeper than yours.
i believe that the codes and protocols that accompany my pieces
make them stronger than yours in every way.
i believe that the escape within the officialese, codes, and protocols
in my work is based on their presence which gains them immeasurable
strength.
in order i believe that human choice all the way around is weak,
that a degree of machinic intervention is absolutely necessary
for the production of meaning today.
i have been seduced by this belief, for which i offer few apologies,
it is the machine within me that holds back.
almost as a young girl on her first date.


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