"Based heavily in a Derridean universe of words within words, Mez
Breeze's poetics works in an almost antithetical manner. Whereas Derrida
and James Joyce operate fundamentally on a linguistics of implosion (or
compression; portmanteaus and puns), Breeze operates by explosion. It
is easy to dismiss her work as a pastiche on “l33t sp33k” but there is
far more happening here than such a superficial read would avail a
careful critic. By breaking words down into their principle parts, Mez
operates on a principle of addition as opposed to subtraction...So instead of a linear read, you have a poetics which trains the reader
to confront it with a sense of simultaneity. That is to say, these poems
are often easier to read if you process them holistically (in this
sense, to take them as a whole) rather than moving from a beginning to
an end as you would with a typical English sentence...
Other various strategies she employs is the extensive use of code
operators such as + and &. Brackets, braces, and parenthesis provide
further elaboration. In essence, where Derrida and Joyce employed
reduction, Mez employs expansion, and the effect (in my opinion) is not
only brilliant, but exclusive to Mezangelle."
-Rollie Bollocks in "Mezangelle: A Reading Strategy".
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28/05/2012
"Mez Breeze's new book is called "Human Readable Messages." So perhaps
a distinction needs to be made between human-readable glitches and
machine-readable glitches. Human-readable glitches are media glitches
-- they occur when humans are communicating to humans through
machines which mediate this communication. Human-readable glitches
don't freak machines out. But neither do machine-readable glitches.
Machine-readable glitches may crash machines, but that doesn't freak
machines out, because machines have no sentient expectation of
"normal." Machines lack the ability to have an uncanny experience. So
to limit the discussion of glitches to events that only happen within
machinic systems, glitches which never run on or involve human
bodies, is to talk about something quite limited. Because a machine
can't know or experience a glitch. Only a human can."
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