by Brian Pentland
Since the dawn of time we’ve used the axe
People use tools to do tasks
Now people use digital artifacts
People use tools to do tasks
So-ci-o-ma-ter-i-al
People use tools to do tasks
It sounds so ethereal
People use tools to do tasks
It was People and Things and the Things that they do
Now it’s Imbrication and Agency Stew
So many new words for these Natural Acts
What does it all mean? I just have to ask.
Ontological interpenetration
People use tools to do tasks
Relational intra-mix-ilation
People use tools to do tasks
Mangles and tangles of natural kinds
People use tools to do tasks
Hetero-temporal narrative splines
People use tools to do tasks
Meta-Mayan Borg bionics
Astro-localized vega-tronics
All these new words for these Natural Acts
What does it all mean? I just have to ask
I thought People use Tools to do Tasks