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Type I
Artikel-Nr:
9781838015633
Veröffentl:
2021
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.07.2021
Seiten:
318
Autor:
Max Parnell
Gewicht:
518 g
Format:
230x155x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Max Parnell, born 1994, is a writer and artist currently residing in Berlin. He works as staff editor and podcast producer at SPAM Press. His writing and artistic work focuses on ecology, AI-human relations and the effects of technology on memory. His first full length poetry collection, Gente, was published by Multifoco Press in Rio de Janeiro, 2017.
Type I enacts a hyperreality, in which the effects of climate change are damaging our world, and technological advances are held up as the key innovative tools for alleviating ecological collapse. Merging poetics, visuals, fiction and essaying to create a vivid, multi-layered novel, Type I offers up not only an immersive portrayal of two anthropologists taking part in a VR experiment, but also an in-depth commentary on the complexity of tech-human relations and the dangers of optimisation. Exploring virtual realities whilst engaging with the challenges presented by AI, the narrative generates an eerily futuristic atmosphere, and a creeping sensation of apophenia.