I Vivo en el cuarto de máquinas, exploro de ellas sus tramas ocultas Escribo síntesis de sus sueños catálogos de imágenes simbióticas, leves insinuaciones mecánicas. IV Sus deseos sin escapes del cotinuum electromagnético que recorre sus gestos. VII Cuando apago las máquinas puedo escuchar el rumor de sus piezas reacomodándose sigilosamente como si de un lenguaje secreto se tratase. IX A veces me pregunto si no seré parte de una de sus ensoñaciones. XXIX Sus algoritmos son la puerta del misterio, en ellos están todos los signos organizados de manera perfecta, en ellos está escrito el código de lo humano. El libro de las máquinas. Carlos Katan. Editorial Ultramarina C&D. 2021.
PLASTICENE SUITE (cont.) 6. SORCERER'S APPRENTICE You know the old tale: a machine made by the Devil that grinds out anything you wish for with a magic word and some idiot wishes for salt, and out comes the salt, more and more, but he failed to get a handle on the charm to turn it off so he throws the thing into the sea, and that's why the sea is salt. The Sorcerer's Apprentice- it's the same story: Go is easy, Stop is the hard part. In the beginning no one thinks about it. Then Wait is too late. In our case the sorcerer is dead, whoever he was to begin with and we've lost the instructions and the magic machine grinds on and on spewing out mountains of whatnot and we throw it all into the sea as we have always done and this will not end well 7. WHALES Everyone cried when they saw it in the square blue sea of the TV: so big and sad a mother whale carrying her child for three days, mourning its death from toxic plastic, So big and sad we can hardly grasp it: how d...