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    612-822-4611

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Machine Learning: The Arc of Dystopia

Machine Learning: The Arc of Dystopia

Heredia, Armando

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 130004585X
ISBN13: 9781300045854
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Jul 8 2025
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.23 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
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.

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