Black Domain / Keyboard

Author: remy malik

Publisher: Spiral Editions (2026)

In the holographic, generously sculpted landscape of this chapbook, malik wonders aloud to themselves and the reader doubly: "i always thought being the topic / might take precedent over writing / about the topic, that as designer / what is the place to talk plainly?" Taking cues from, say, Scalapino, Eigner, Lin, and Pritchard, this work presents the screen and the evolution of its glitch. In the words of the author, " it’s like a beach but very chaotic. too many people on the beach, then there’s world politics happening behind the beach." Heaped shimmering debris of data, samples strewn across the studio floor, empty used shells of drum breaks, lossy files, dissolved images, washed up missives: all expended and honored for the (de)construction of a Black utopia. There is "randomness," yes, but moreover a resituated "dimensional collapse," allowing the reader to look outward from the center of the diamond, the center of the drop, the multivalenced standpoint concerned with all of our futures.