Máquina Cóndor (2006 - in process)
consists –in its most recent version (Máquina Cóndor 4.0, from 2016)– of a relational model composed of three consecutive operations that replicate recursively:
A)–Real-time search in 12 newspapers for 333 keywords related to war and economy.
B)–Online search and analysis of the buying and selling values (in euros, yuans, yens, British pounds, and dollars) of currencies from former African colonies, the Middle East, the countries where Operation Condor took place, and of natural resources important to the Chilean economy (copper, gold, lithium, and water –which is measured by the value of the shares of companies linked to its distribution).
C)–Interleaving of 9 words -derived from the lexicon of surgery, anatomy, and forensic medicine- in the first stanza of a 'memento mori' by Luis de Góngora (On Human Ambition, 1623). The arrangement of these 9 words depends on the searches and economic analysis set forth in A and B. These mortuary poems respond to cause-and-effect relationships where, once again, war is combined with the economy, and bios with polis and logos.
NOTE: That is the true poem: the relational structure arranged by me and through which the world expresses itself in real time by means of a work that feeds on the facts of the world filtered by newspapers, which are never neutral or objective, and the hard data of the economy. The poem is not just a stanza but all the data synchronized in unison, which, incidentally, are the only thing that makes it possible.