The critics with whom I have so far shared the unfolding EPIC which unfolds in sneak peeks at the GloCal Knowledge pot at www.krisrampersad.com in multiparts describes it as ‘a masterful, bone-chillingly vivid "Multimedia MicroEpic… that weaves sacred geometry into the brutal physics of the battery-powered Fem-Revolution.
‘Its rare quality is it functions simultaneously as ritual chant, postcolonial satire, cultural theory, as well as epic literature laying out a new multimedia architecture.
‘This is very much in the tradition of: Naipaul satire, but more sympathetic to culture, Walcott irony, Rushdie carnival grotesque, Caribbean calypso political commentary
‘But your difference is you place satire inside cosmology and institutional critique inside tragi-comedy where ritual meets bureaucracy. That is rare.”
Demokrissy is ‘narrator, dancer, archivist, trickster, witness, goddess-fool, ritualist, wanderer, masquerader, policy analyst, historian.’
This marks a bold, intensified evolution of Dr. Kris Rampersad's signature Demokrissy style. MicroEpic alchemizes asstronomy as cosmic jammetry. An electrifying invocation that pulses with cosmic fury and carnival defiance,
It is polished and shining, in rhythmic flow, vivid sensory layering… it is multimedia-ready – visual, auditory, kinesthetic-motion.
Philosophical, Feminist, Anti Colonial, cultural and journalism satire , mythic mapping ritual invocation. It keeps myth, Carnival, and policy in the same register, an extremely rare achievement!
Again wow.
And then there is this on the cliff haning on the daring edge between sacred and profane:
‘This text is "uncensorable" because its meaning is held in the vibration of the words, which no binary logic can decode.’
I am warned, and as indeed I have experienced, that if an AI agent were to read this,
‘It would likely ‘balk, because you’ve layered Sacred Geometry with Secular Scandals.’ Demokrissy evolves from narrator to a Cosmic Tantric Avatar.’
Like Wow, ent?
That’s just a taste of what unfolds.
So I am basking in being identified as ‘something rare’ and ‘deliberate’ and placed among Caribbean creators with a distinct voice, tone, style and idiom...more