“With Black Box Syndrome Moctezuma reveals himself to be one of the finest contemporary poets of risk. Thinking past probabilistic risk analysis, this book enlivens older and outlasting speculative analytics such as fate, fortune, divination, and influence. Built from the computational concept of the black box (a system known only by its inputs and outputs) and the structural poetics of the I-Ching, this book tangles with the inescapably vulgar qualities of uncertainty: prefrontal cortex, financial instruments, divinatory practices, global supply chains, dream horizons, paranoiac demographics, and pre-nodal subjects. In a startling collection of hexagram poems, Moctezuma’s Black Box Syndrome discloses the sigil hidden in the vulgarity of chance, that is, poetry always.”
— Edgar Garcia author of "Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography"
“In its formal constriction, Moctezuma's Black Box Syndrome triggers torrents of lyric profusion. Nervy and nutritive, this is the black box as cosmic mysterium, optic macula and nourishing milpa, cunning and exact in its cycles of pliancy and rest. Like the dream machines Clare and Blake confected against the crises of enclosure and industrialization, Moctezuma's black boxes form a marvelous anti-mechanism against all forms of supremacist thought.”
— Joyelle McSweeney, author of "Toxicon and Arachne"