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Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age

Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age

by Jessica Sequeira
Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age
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Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age

Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age

by Jessica Sequeira

Overview

Why do people choose to play with ideas considered antiquated? Why do they elect to act in non-productive ways? Perhaps the question can be asked in reverse: What comes to mind when we think of technology? That which is practical, efficient, invisible, fast, optimistic, constantly updated. So how can one explain the search for the opposite, that which is useless, inefficient, physically present, slow, dystopian, obsolete and governed by chance? The matter of what motivates the search for ‘antiquated’ forms strikes deep into the heart of value. Are people simply following trends? Are they idiots? Are they sentimental? Are they artists? Are they interested in kitsch? Are they uninformed? Are they poets? Other Paradises is a collection of essays exploring imaginative responses to science and technology, and is about people who choose to build ‘other paradises’, fully conscious of the alternative they offer to the dominant paradigm of technological progress.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785355851
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 04/27/2018
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.38(w) x 8.59(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Jessica Sequeira is a writer and translator from Spanish and French. She contributed to the Sounds and Colours anthologies on Argentina, Brazil and Perú, and she publishes the collection of stories Rhombus and Oval through What Books Press in 2017. Jessica lives in California.

Table of Contents

About this Book xii

Acknowledgements xiii

Preface 1

Ghost in the Fax: haunting new technologies with old ones as retrotech / Japan 4

Optic Nervous: juxtaposing rapid content and slow arrangement / Bay Area 13

Macabre Trunk: focusing on process / Mexico 24

Scientific Fictions: embracing the alien and life outside the norm / Bolivia 32

Existential Puzzles: laughing at modernity and figuring out how to live with it / India 44

Shadow Puppet: removing as a part of creation / Turkey 54

Magic Lantern: transforming sense data to produce effects / France 61

Warp of a Field: folding conceptual topos of history / New Zealand 75

Jars of Preserves: saving for its own sake and the corruption of this idea / Netherlands 84

Brandy Cocktail: inventing styles and pseudonyms to avoid spectacle / Bolivia (reprise) 94

Symbolic Grenade: observing as a mode of history and form of action / Pyrenees 104

Here and There: imagining utopias in language / Everywhere 116

The Utopia of Satire? 116

The Utopia of Sincerity? 122

The Utopia of Lightness? 125

Epilogue: Those Hills Behind 138

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