Kraken Deep Revolt

By Elancharan Gunasekaran

Kraken Deep Revolt, is a genderless introspection into the life of the salaryman. Kraken here refers to the vile office spaces, the tyrannical bosses, the corporate madness that unfolds day after day. And within the salaryman is a deep-seeded need to revolt, to rebel, to go against the very order of the system that is imposed upon the individual. The kraken bares its tentacles and its viciousness in this claustrophobic space and controls its mindless slaves- workers like you and I. No one is spared.

The need to climb the corporate ladder. The kraken has a tentacle in it. The need to produce results. The kraken has another tentacle in it. Waking, walking, living has become a parasitic dictatorship over the basic human functions. There is no you. You are but a number. Expendable. Extinguishable. But is that truly what you want to become? A corporate slave? Just flesh and bones? A meat-bag tossed around, used and reused?

The salaryman rises. Unshackling chains. Raging against the very corporate entity that has been designed to enslave. The salaryman is no longer bound by rules. Seeking freedom in the deviant. He is an aghori of sorts. A madman. A fetishist. A deprived demon longing to belong, to be part of this evolving cityscape.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elancharan Gunasekaran
• Release date: Jun 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463369760

Elancharan Gunasekaran

Elancharan Gunasekaran is a multidisciplinary artist and poet. He resides in Singapore with his family and cat, Leo. He has a strange love for all things poetical and Sci-Fi. A winner of the Montblanc X Esquire Six-word Story prize 2017. He is the creator of House Haiku, an experimental music series combining poetry and house music elements. Andromeda’s Alien, his first album is now represented by Red Claw Records (Germany). His latest publications are Superatomicluminal (Hesterglock Press, UK), Gods of The Gonzo (Analog Submission Press,UK), Sleeping with Wildflowers (Alien Buddha Press, Arizona/New York), The Cosmonaut Manifesto (UndergroundBooks, New York), Monochromatique (Queer Ink, India), Deviant Flames and Dark Revolver (Roman Books, UK/India). His poetry has been published worldwide, on various international print and online platforms. His books and performances have been featured at the New York City Poetry Festival, Rantai Arts Festival (Kuala Lumpur), Singapore International Festival of the Arts, Singapore Writers Festival, Poetry Festival Singapore, All In! Young Writers Festival Singapore and was a guest performer at the Travel Poetry Slam (Singapore). He writes on Twitter and Instagram: @elancharang. He is also editor of proletaria.org, an online journal devoted to one-line poems and statements inspired by politics, philosophy and phenomena.

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