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Sensorium ex
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- Book Synopsis
- In this dystopian tale of a near-future society increasingly threatened by all-consuming AI, a scientist mother and her disabled son rebel against the corporate larceny of their selves, by an award-winning poet ("Stirring. . . . Wildly inventive and sharp to an edge" -Los Angeles Review of Books) In this story of the scientist DR. MEM and KITSUNE, her nonambulatory, non-speaking son, the pair fight CORP, a mega-company developing the most powerful AI robot ever conceived. What MEM learns is that CORP seeks "To give the robot something real. / What it can fake but not make: / mercy, compassion. Trust and love." That is, CORP hopes to harvest and own not just their employees' personal data but their thoughts, memories, and their sensory experiences, in order to build a robot that will contain all that is and ever was human, and replace the need for humans themselves. This swift drama, which unfolds in a libretto/ script format, with dialogue in Shaughnessy's accessible and blistering verse, shows how MEM and her coworkers fight to save their individuality from being vacuumed up. A Greek-style chorus reflects on the state of a world where "taking leave of our senses" becomes a serious and quite literal threat, as MEM struggles to fulfill her singular role in fighting the high-tech of corrupt capitalism. At the center of this all-too-relevant speculative drama burns MEM's most powerful weapon against the forces of AI darkness: a mother's love.
- About The Author
- BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY is the Okinawan-Irish American author of six previous books of poetry, including The Octopus Museum and Our Andromeda. The recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Pprofessor of English and creative writing at Rutgers University-Newark, Shaughnessy lives with her family in New Jersey.
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- ISBN
- 9781524712884
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Knopf, (21 July 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 232 x 178 mm
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