Moments are the elements of profit. - Karl Marx, Capital Vol.
1
Composed primarily through the co-optation and recombination of
internet search results, FAKE MATH is a poetic
intervention into the ways the motive for profit structures our
lives. Each poem exposes the fallacies, fake logics, and sheer
idiocies that constrict our decision-making processes in terms of
our art, industry, educational system, and our day-to-day lives,
while questioning our tendency to resort to institutionalized
social violence. FAKE MATH draws its inspiration from
diverse sources from Marx to Freud, from Archimedes to Oprah,
sending them all downstream on rapidly pulsating waves of
schizophrenic glee and political gravity, often creating startling
juxtapositions when mismatched ideas and images are torn from their
original contexts. The effects are at once humorous and
stomach-churning. Ultimately, these are poems about how we live,
work, and play within larger structures of capitalism and how our
attempts to move past these structures are largely failed attempts
at rebellion, not real attempts at revolution or, better yet,
escape.