Con Jobs
A body of absurdist poetry generated from the linguistic debris of a decade of political disinformation, revealing how language erodes under relentless repetition.
Con Jobs transforms thousands of public statements by Donald J. Trump—including lies, half-truths, reversals, slogans, and spontaneous contradictions—into an evolving corpus of machine-generated poetry. Rather than illustrating politics or satire, the project anatomizes the collapse of meaning itself. Feeding on 30,000+ documented utterances, the system recombines fragments into surreal, looping structures that feel both familiar and destabilizing.
The resulting texts read like artifacts from an overheated linguistic ecosystem—scraps of rhetoric mutated by scale, velocity, and algorithmic digestion. They raise questions about authorship, propaganda, and the emotional residue of a culture shaped by constant semantic distortion.
The project operates simultaneously as a poetic engine, a documentary archive, and a long-form meditation on how machines inherit and transform the language we abandon to noise.
