Soft Science

By Franny Choi

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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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938584996
• ISBN13: 9781938584992
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"