• Author:agent Yu Ouyang http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/ouyang-yu
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Case for China or a Self-obituary
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Notes

  • Epigraph:

    living in Australia is like

    living after death

    you hear all outside happenings

    totally unrelated to yourself

    The poet

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House Style Lifestyle, Or: Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Cher Tan , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;

'Welcome to the world of snackable content.

'Listen closely: like an ambient soundscape, its soft tides wash over you and you devour it quickly. Sometimes, it repeats an opinion you’ve already developed, affirming previously held beliefs. From afar this tone appears poetic but zoom in closer and you will see that they are generated to trigger particular affective feeling – what Sianne Ngai describes as ‘the aesthetic experience in which astonishment is paradoxically united with boredom’. Did SEO create this monster? Or was it the inner workings of the thing we now call capitalist realism? The answers lie inside your personal algorithm, an enigmatic void that soothes your soul with its mirrors.'  (Introduction)

House Style Lifestyle, Or: Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Cher Tan , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;

'Welcome to the world of snackable content.

'Listen closely: like an ambient soundscape, its soft tides wash over you and you devour it quickly. Sometimes, it repeats an opinion you’ve already developed, affirming previously held beliefs. From afar this tone appears poetic but zoom in closer and you will see that they are generated to trigger particular affective feeling – what Sianne Ngai describes as ‘the aesthetic experience in which astonishment is paradoxically united with boredom’. Did SEO create this monster? Or was it the inner workings of the thing we now call capitalist realism? The answers lie inside your personal algorithm, an enigmatic void that soothes your soul with its mirrors.'  (Introduction)

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