Machine Learning

Machine Learning

The Arc of Dystopia

ByArmando Heredia

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"Uncle Sam is dead. Meet Uncle Shady." In Machine Learning: The Arc of Dystopia, Armando Heredia crafts a searing symphony of protest poetry that traces America’s moral decay into a chilling techno-authoritarian future. Structured as a conceptual album, this incendiary collection reimagines national icons—Liberty exiled, Hope seeking asylum, Uncle Sam reborn as a masked predator—to expose the machinery of oppression thriving in daylight. From the haunting lament of deportees at the station (The Ladies at the Station) to the algorithmic nightmares of automated bigotry (Machine Learning), Heredia masterfully wields metaphor as a weapon: red-hatted "daytime monsters," concrete plantations of detained labor, and blue-suited demagogues trading God for power. Each poem builds toward a visceral climax where ICE becomes "Jeffrey," immigrants are replaced by machines, and democracy unravels into a dystopia built on stolen bodies and lies. Blending folk lyricism with razor-sharp satire, Heredia delivers an urgent elegy for a nation betraying its soul—and a warning that the algorithms learning from our hate may inherit the world. Machine Learning is more than poetry: it’s a survival manual for the American twilight.

Details

Publication Date
Jul 8, 2025
Language
English
ISBN
9781300045854
Category
Poetry
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Armando Heredia

Specifications

Pages
109
Binding Type
Paperback Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
Pocket Book (4.25 x 6.875 in / 108 x 175 mm)

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