Soft science / Franny Choi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choi, Franny, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

95 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Farmington, Maine : Alice James Books, [2019]

Summary:

"Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness -- how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology, violence, erasure, agency, gender, and loneliness." -- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Turing Test: Making of ; Bad daughter ; Beg ; Acknowledgments ; On the night of the election ; A brief history of cyborgs

Turing Test_Empathetic Response: Afterlife ; Everyone knows that line about ogres and onions, but nobody asks the beast why undressing makes her cry ; The price of rain ; Program for the morning after ; The cyborg wants to make sure she heard you right ; Shokushu Goukan for the cyborg soul ; Perchance to dream ; Jaebal ; & O bright star of disaster, I have been lit

Turing Test_Boundaries: Chi ; I swiped right on the Borg ; The cyborg meets the drone at a family reunion and fails to make small talk ; You're so paranoid

Turing Test_Problem Solving: Ode to epinephrine ; The cyborg watches a video of a Nazi saying her name to a bunch of other Nazis ; In the morning I scroll my way back into America ; It's all fun and games until someone gains consciousness ; Chatroulette

Turing Test_Love: Solitude ; Perihelion: a history of touch

Turing Test_Weight: Introduction to quantum theory ; Kyoko's language files are recovered following extensive damage to her CPU.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Choi, Franny. Soft science.

ISBN:

9781938584992

1938584996

OCLC:

1048659059

Publisher Number:

40029041439