Technelegy
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Eyewear Publishing
Published:18th Nov '21
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An exploration of our intimate relationship with the digital through the lens of poetic elegy. An increasingly thriving new category of books and one of the first of its kind. The author has been nominated for awards including the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net; featured in the official Times Square app on Virtual New Year's Eve and on the runway at New York Fashion Week; and installed as land art.
Explores our intimate relationship with the digital through the lens of poetic elegy. A thematic fusion of the zero-one rhythms of binary code with the pulse of elegiac couplets. An urgent investigation of love, creativity and nature in an age of artificial replication, reflecting on themes from cyber-spirituality to digital immortality.
What does it mean to be human in a nearly posthuman era? How are universal truths like birth, sex and death changing in the context of technological innovation? These are the questions probed by poet, artist and AI researcher Sasha Stiles in her highly anticipated debut. Both groundbreaking and heartbreaking, the collection explores our intimate relationship with the digital through the lens of poetic elegy — a thematic fusion of the zero-one rhythms of binary code with the pulse of elegiac couplets, alternating between elation and lamentation. An urgent investigation of love, creativity and nature in an age of artificial replication, reflecting on themes from cyber-spirituality to digital immortality, TECHNELEGY is a transhuman manifesto with poetic soul.
Technelegy is a treasure trove of inspiration and insights, a synthesis of the humanist and scientific terrain that suggests we can do much more than we have with the tekne at our disposal. The word charming is often used dismissively, but immersed in the panoply of emergent technologies that blink and ding for our attention, charm is a solace and Technelegy offers a vision of a more tender and thoughtful human and computer relation.
-- Charlotte Kent * Brooklyn Rail *"[A] brilliant book -- wildly imaginative, playful, smart -- the record of a poet grappling with our technological present, and future."
-- - Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams and Professor of the Practice of the Humanities, MIT"Technelegy is an immersive journey into today's entangled web of existence. A fascinating brainbath that leaves the mind inspired, awake and expanded."
-- - Ani Liu, award-winning multidisciplinary arISBN: 9781913606732
Dimensions: 255mm x 215mm x 20mm
Weight: 982g
176 pages