It's Hot in the Hivemind

Maxime Garcia Diaz

What happens to a body if it just stares at a screen? What glitters among the ruins of the twenty-first century? That is what Maxime Garcia Diaz investigates in this dazzling debut collection. Her associative poems meander, intoxicate, disrupt and are deeply rooted in the digital, the feminine and the contemporary. Snippets of news reports mix with academic theory and extinct web pages from the noughties. In her poetry, boundaries become porous – between bodies, languages, voices – and everything is impure.

It's hot in the hivemind is an analog internet, a paper web, a bloody mess of pop culture, undead URLs and girls' bodies. A sparkling poetic debut in which language flourishes, about fantasy, madness, anger, fear, and a ghostly revolution. This polyphonic maelstrom is most like the internet itself: whimsical, dangerous and full of a dark and joyful abundance.