CURSIVE BINARY: HELIX (for Christian Bök), 2025

CURSIVE BINARY: HELIX is a genetically recursive, infinitely evolving code poem composed by Sasha Stiles and her AI alter ego, Technelegy. Rendered via generative algorithm, the text is autonomously scribed and rescribed in Stiles’ hybrid, more-than-human language — a living helix endlessly rewriting itself, no two translations ever quite the same.

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HELIX

Poets know that death is just

a line break in these infinite

twists of recursive design: time.

Life begets life in rhythms,

hums. No poem wants to die,

its codes wrung from all of us, ad infinitum.