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As iZ
As iZ is a tripartite lyric (Pharmacy, To Market and Library), a multi-prong investigation into the relationship between the West and East, the entangled networks among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the dynamics among Islamic practices and pre-Islamic cultures. It is, in this sense, a meditation on the vacillation between between-ness and among-ness, the two and the many, and the desire to escape both two-ness and many-ness into the singularity of one on the way to extinction, the bone at zero.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents • Wizard of Mot • I. • Pharmacy • Serapis • Hear You Who Abandon Here Ye • Syrian Wheel • Serapeum • Sky • We See The Sky And Raise It • See Above • Sphinx Infinitives • TB/A • Inmate • Between the Gap Unlike 12 and 30 • The Gazarene • bBaraka • e e • p.s. • Alhambra • taškil • II. • To Market • International • To the Future Master Charlie Rebel • 1. • Passing Goods • “It was easy” • Charon on the Potomac • Melinde Melindi • defectiva/plena • Xcedilla • In the Wake of a Storm to Come • Save As Water • Setnet • 2. • Domestic • “imbecile candle” • Dhow • Bowsprit and Mast • Barnacle and Patina • Arapt • Pilot, Ltd. • Gangplank of Sighs • “twisted rudder” • Punt Per Gondola • versa verso • Maroon • III. • Library • Library Scientist • 040-049 • A.D.A.M. • The Bully Archive • Source and Target • Object Agent • The Speculative Archive • Objects in Exile • The D.I.Y. Archive • Jahiliyyah • Burn the Book of Life • After Word Read Digest