[4] His second book, this simulation sux, was co-written with the statistical analyst and visual designer Ting Ding and published by the small press DOMAIN in the summer of 2024.
was a meme and then turned into a life of its own as a campaign in their gender-fluid clothing line, Hecha, and, afterwards, as a trio-collective when Brown created a mix for it.
The book provides a Black theoretical perspective on techno, setting it apart from its cultural assimilation into predominantly white, European electronic music scenes of the 2000s and 2010s.
By referencing Theodore Roszak’s "Making of a Counter Culture," the writings of African American autoworker and political activist James Boggs, and Alvin Toffler’s "Third Wave" "techno rebels," Brown draws parallels between Black electronic music movements and Afrofuturist, speculative, and Afrodiasporic traditions to imagine a world-building sonic fiction and futurity within techno.
Inspired by the pioneering work of early legends like The Belleville Three, Underground Resistance's multimedia creations, and Drexciya's mythscience, Brown shows how techno spread from Detroit to other cities worldwide through networks of collaboration, production, and distribution.