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Title:

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.

Publisher:

Halmos,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Subject:

Technology--Social aspects.
Environmental disasters--Fiction.
Culture.
Internet--Social aspects.
Art and society.
Technology--Social aspects
Art and society.
Culture.
Environmental disasters.
Internet--Social aspects.
Fiction.

Other Authors:

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

Notes:

Title from cover.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780983532125
0983532125

OCLC:

(OCoLC)910981638

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)