I WANT TO BE A MACHINE is Mark Leach’s hybrid manifesto, literary self-analysis, and guide to machine-native writing, arguing that AI does not replace experimental authorship so much as reveal what avant-garde writing has always been: recursive, appropriative, fragmented, and system-driven. Through essays, reviews, annotations, and generated commentary, the book positions Leach’s “space writing” as a bridge between postmodern collage and the emerging literature of the GenAI era.