The Palantir Poems by the enigmatic hacker-poet Black Rimbaud dives into the chilling world of contemporary surveillance like no other work before it. In this provocative collection, the tools of omnipresent monitoring are both frightening and amazing. They evoke images of godly oversight, where "God monitors Genesis" just as Sauron watches Frodo. But what if such tools had fallen into the hands of historical monsters? Imagine if Bin Laden or the German Army at Stalingrad had access to these omniscient monitors—or if the French Anti-Revolution had wielded them against Danton and Robespierre. Black Rimbaud pushes the question further: what happens when surveillance technology, in a strange twist, begins to observe itself? In a collision of prophetic poetry and hacker insights, The Palantir Poems is both a caution and a vision, demanding we rethink our digital reflections and the systems tracking them.