Text Messages - Or How I Found Myself Time Travelling (Unabridged)

Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin «Narcy» Alsalman. <br/> Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy&apos;s writing speaks of the existential crises experienced by diasporic children of war before and during imperialism in the age of the Internet. Narcy&apos;s verses span the space between hip-hop and manifesto, portraying a crumbling, end-stage capitalist society, visions for a new reality, and the myth of multiculturalism in post-9/11 North America. The wordsmith hollows and transmogrifies the grotesque excess of the West by juxtaposing McLife with images of death, destruction, and trauma in the East. <br/> From the depths of apathetic consumerism arises a voice of spiritual self-realization that explodes the misrepresented, mythical monolith of Islam in the West and with the rubble builds healing through intelligent resistance and radical love. &quot;Young boys and girls trapped in Walmarts- our consumer interim camps. A family-friendly, discounted freedom. You don&apos;t see what the Internet can&apos;t. Not our land or home. Not your mans or holmes. Not your towers or domes. Not your power or drones."