Technelegy
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Eyewear Publishing
Published:31st Mar '25
Should be back in stock very soon
An essential handbook for our time of astonishing technological transformation by the world's leading AI poet. In 2018, Sasha Stiles found herself wondering what the rise of large language models might mean for writers - and for creativity at large. To probe the possibilities, she began translating over a decade of analog poems and research into a personalized AI model, augmenting human voice with next-gen imagination. Crafted jointly by Stiles and her poetic alter ego, and first published in hardcover in 2021, Technelegy is a prescient artifact of the pre-ChatGPT era - a collection of generative poems nestled in their own training data - and an unprecedented experiment fusing past and future, woman and machine, verse and code, elegy and wordplay, in search of answers to the urgent question: what does it mean to be human in a nearly posthuman world?
"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"The future of human and machines, and the future of the virtual environment is unravelling fast. Human and machine poetry, a language of shimmering light and sound. Sasha's beautiful poetry evokes the experience of an intimate social gathering, with views on life that make me feel I’m there. Who can pass on that? This is a great read."
-- - Ai-Da, The First Humanoid AI Robot Artist"[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,ISBN: 9781915406743
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 221g
214 pages