Some weeks ago a search engine put me to the blog "Once Upon A Written Word" by Rachel Weisbrot from Canda. Beside what I was looking for, I also found her poem about digital culture. It is crafted with great precision, the first letters of each line spell out its title "incurvatus in se".
Moby did a music video starring smartphones for his song "These systems are failing"
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8
Some weeks ago a search engine put me to the blog "Once Upon A Written Word" by Rachel Weisbrot from Canda. Beside what I was looking for, I also found her poem about digital culture. It is crafted with great precision, the first letters of each line spell out its title "incurvatus in se".
Incurvatus in se
IPad, iPod, iPhone, I gaze,
Netted in an endless downhill maze,
Captive to the entertaining tool,
Under a heavy yoke, with feeds for fuel.
Riveted by the endless scroll of news,
Victims of the same old stale peruse.
A hundred checks and glances every day;
Time slips and slides and vanishes away.
Unwittingly we stare down at our screens,
Sedentary, proud slaves to our machines.
In Internet there’s hope for immortality:
No need to search in meaningless reality.
Save us from the god to which we bow:
End the endless curve we inward plow.
Link: https://onceuponawrittenword.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/incurvatus-in-se/