Soft science
Publication Information
Farmington, Maine : Alice James Books, [2019]
Physical Description
95 pages ; 23 cm
Uniform Title
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.