Staff Pick
Choi's collection is a brilliant exploration of how we choose to recognize or deny other people's humanity. The tension between "hard" and "soft" sciences, between machinery and emotion, art and artifice, the real world and an online one, human and cyborg, was a constant reminder of the way we make hard and fast distinctions between "us" and "them" — and what we lose in doing so. Implicating everything from gendered language to Twitter trolls, the book hones in on the notion of what is "man-made" — not only cyborgs and the Internet and art, but beliefs about gender and sexuality and race. Through it all, Choi builds a world of "soft" distinctions, of a cyborg who may also be a "girl untouched, alive / who sees, and comes. Who brings herself online." Recommended By Darla M., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
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". . . Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology." --Publishers Weekly
"...Franny Choi combines technology and poetry to stunning effect." -BUSTLE
"...these beautiful, fractal-like poems are meditations on identity and autonomy and offer consciousness-expanding forays into topics like violence and gender, love and isolation." -NYLON
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.
Synopsis
Paris Review Staff Pick
A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection
"....Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology." --Publishers Weekly
"...Franny Choi combines technology and poetry to stunning effect." -BUSTLE
"...these beautiful, fractal-like poems are meditations on identity and autonomy and offer consciousness-expanding forays into topics like violence and gender, love and isolation." -NYLON
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.
Synopsis
Paris Review Staff Pick
A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection
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.
"Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology." --Publishers Weekly
"Franny Choi combines technology and poetry to stunning effect." -BUSTLE
"...these beautiful, fractal-like poems are meditations on identity and autonomy and offer consciousness-expanding forays into topics like violence and gender, love and isolation." -NYLON