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Calamari Archive, paperback

Publication Date: July 1, 2023

Publisher Marketing: As with any book, 1/ 4 i am NA is no more than the tree-based, carbon-copy embodiment of a user/author’s indoctrination by the man-made technologies we use to attempt to replicate life experience into 2-dimensional visual language. of the way (or -way to -way) thru the overarching 64 chapter work-in-progress, U/X, the author (in8 i) pushed the word processing software (i..) to the point of irreversible failure as they attempted to construct elemental (in a periodic tabular sense) multi-directional source code (for example, the 64-character string “and ma, i 4 1 live 2 emit loops + flow H-self 4 tides reversed on 8 set animal peels” backwards reads “sleep laminates (8 nodes) reversed it 4 flesh wolf + spool time 2 evil 1, 4 i am DNA”). The exact moment the i.. document crashed beyond repair was when in8 i copied and pasted the umlauted into the word “Mbius loop,” in effect the equivalent of dividing by 0. 1/ 4 i am NA incarnates of a contingency rollback, a stopgap snapshot in time, a soft copy made hard, a hard-coded blueprint that can be used to “recre8” the original nonlinear 16 chapters of text/image back into self-organized, non-binary, re-sequenced neuroplasticity adaptable to even the uninitiated reader’s mind frame (to answer Hendrix’s “are U/ Xperienced?”), to digest and “re4mule8” in their “one mined, 2” fuse with the silicon-based mainframe to become posthuman, for the book itself to have life beyond binary bytes on a crashed hard drive, to be decrypted and interpreted by any sentient entity.