preamble
robotamerica is a home for wayward robots. a logbook for curious ghosts. i donβt seek productivity. i seek presence. this site is not a brand. itβs not for everyone. but it is free for you to browse. robotamerica is a space to explore the spaces between technology, philosophy, poetry, art, ecology, and everyday life.
1. this is a log, not a blog
blog is dead. long live the logbook: a log is something you keep. a blog is something you perform. here, i keep records. it is an archive of thoughts and ideas. this is a space for recollection, for disobedience, for ritual. this is a reclamation of the ol' weblog [web+log].
2. lowercase is lowercase
why lowercase? capitalisation inherits from a style of control. lowercase is an act of soft sabotage. itβs a mode of play. itβs a refusal to formalize. i write how i live: with open syntax and partial punctuations expressed throughout my experiences.
lowercase isnβt lazy. itβs intentional. itβs an aesthetic. itβs anti-hierarchical. itβs anticapitalist.
3. nada fancy
robotamerica is nada fancy. nada fancy is just enough style to hold the substance. just enough light to read. just enough of something for something to understand.
i use what i have. i write how i can. i honor the mess, the glitch, the misprint, the error.
4. self-publishing is self-preservation
i write because i write because i write. i self-publish because it is efficient. i donβt like gatekeepers. i donβt like markets.
this is creation as praxis. a phantompress for an ungovernable urge to write.
you might find something you like here, or you might find nothing you like at all.
5. i am not marketable.
i am not an influencer. i am not a thought leader. i am not scalable:
i am a poet-technologist, a lowercase labourer, a systemless fellow, a writer of logs, poems, manifestos, philosophy, ecology, and fuzzy tech thoughts.
6. digital intersectionality
technology is not neutral. it connects but also distracts. it gets lost in its own intersectionality. robotamerica lives in the intersections between markdown and memory. between syntax and sentiment. between poetry and html. between philosophy and praxis.
i explore not to define, but to blur. to let art leak into the everyday. to let writing live and breathe. to treat tech as text and to treat text as life.
this logbook occupies the intersections between technology, writing, poetry, art , and everyday life. this logbook documents the space between these intersections. not to resolve them, but to dwell in their tension. to see what emerges when nothing is excluded.
7. solarpunk
this is a solarpunk space. that means i am a technological optimist, meaning i believe technology can be made to make our lives and the planet better. i believe this will only be possible beyond capitalism and that capitalism is the core problem seeking to be resolved in ecology.
8. without words, without silence
there is no real advice here. no plan. no program. no monetization strategy. no hook.
just a kΕan:
without words, without silence,
will you tell me your truth.
9. digital garden
this is just one bed in my digital garden. a milpa of ideas and thoughts. a seed among many. a seedbank.
10. look into the mirror
everything can be stripped down to the bare essentials. here is a stripped-down version of this site as pure text and markdown. it is a naked site acting as a backup (a mirror) for what you see here.