The Machine stops / E.M. Forster ; with contributions by Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström and R. Lyon, Ed Atkins, Ian Cheng, Melanie Gilligan, Pedro Neves Marques, Tobias Madison, Jeff Nagy, Rachel Rose, Bea Schlingelhoff and Mariana Silva ; edited by Erik Wysocan.

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Publication:

New York : Halmos, [2015]

Description:

1 online resource (221 pages : illustrations)

Series:

Halmos ; 1

Notes:
Title from cover.
The machine stops / E.M. Forster -- Letters to the machine / Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström R. Lyon -- Even pricks, literally / Ed Atkins -- Infinite game of thrones / Ian Cheng -- Popular unrest, Episode 4 / Melanie Gilligan -- NO / Tobias Madison -- The liberator / Pedro Neves Marques -- #Nohorizon : we have never been how we became : a manifesto / Jeff Nagy -- Contempt catastrophe / Rachel Rose -- Iris by Almira Paul / Bea Schlingelhoff -- Borges and the hyperlink / Mariana Silva.

Summary:

In 1909 E.M. Forster (1879-1970) wrote his one work of dystopian science fiction, The Machine Stops, which imagines the world in the aftermath of an ecological crisis, where humans live in underground chambers without physical contact. Here, 12 artists--Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström and R. Lyon, Ed Atkins, Ian Cheng, Melanie Gilligan, Pedro Neves Marques, Tobias Madison, Jeff Nagy, Rachel Rose, Bea Schlingelhoff and Mariana Silva--contribute texts addressing culture in the networked age.--artbook.com.

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ISBN:

0983532125
9780983532125
1609420667
9781609420666
1434442047
9781434442048
1434446255
9781434446251
1434442128
9781434442123
9780983532132
0983532133

Subject:

Technology Social aspects.
Environmental disasters Fiction.
Culture.
Internet Social aspects.
Art and society.
Critical theory.
Catastrophes écologiques Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Internet Aspect social.
Art et société.
Théorie critique.
critical theory (sociological concept)
Environmental disasters

Form/genre:

Fiction.

Added entries:

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. Machine stops.

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