Ferroschematics - Jake Tobin (light wear)

Ferroschematics by Jake Tobin / 24-page saddle-stitched softcover, 8 x 10 inches, published by Random Man Editions / minor wear from inbound shipping

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FERROSCHEMATICS, a nonlinear military industrial grimoire

From Random Man: At turns atavistic and noided, Jake Tobin’s FERROSCHEMATICS views our subscription-doomed world through Bing shard-encrusted compound eyes. War’s payment plan is stenographed onto an unstable topology, bursting fracked leaks of flurried liches that coagulate at the borders of the page, frames embedded with a Chernabogian frenzy. Like Martin Vaughn-James’ spectro-spatial classic The Cage, Tobin disorients with maniacal clarity, fluttering through the peepholes of retinal-scanning portals and imperceptible doors. There are gates here—rivulets, folds, knots, veins, mesh—brought forth and animated like bundles of steel wool set ablaze. Meanwhile, the petrocene is awash in its own vantablack abundance: a silken yet yammering conglomerate cratered with unblockable Great Value ads. A poetic catastrophe awaits within this mesmeric assemblage of bankrupt trademarks and chitinous prisms.