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02624aam a22003378i 4500 001 34E302888C3A11EAB4A2F82B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200502010016 008 190715s2020 nyu 000 0deng 010 $a 2019029706 020 $a 0143134361 020 $a 9780143134367 (softcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a N6537.D562 $b A35 2020 082 00 $a 709.2 $2 23 100 1 $a Dodge, Harry, $e author. 245 10 $a My meteorite, or, Without the random there can be no new thing / $c Harry Dodge. 246 3 $a Without the random there can be no new thing 260 $a New York : $b Penguin Books, $c 2020. 263 $a 2003 300 $a 321 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "As artist Harry Dodge initiates a research project about machine intelligence, he abruptly finds himself contending with the decline and death of his father from dementia, the renovation of a bewildering but powerful connection to his birth-mother, and the vicissitudes of artistic practice--its strange solitude and sociality. Under these pressures, the quotidian begins to tear, which allows a portal--perhaps activated by an iron meteorite Dodge orders on eBay--to open, and he rushes into it. The artist sets up an experiment: he vows to leave his studio and risk contact with unfamiliar people in order to put himself in touch with the magic that derives when humans connect. Grief and unease become catalysts for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter and--related--the bafflement of belonging. My Meteorite is a lyrical and provocative investigation into how we are shaped by ineffable forces we cannot know. Structured around a series of formative, formidable coincidences in Dodge's life, My Meteorite journeys from Barthes to "Blade Runner," from punk to Pale Fire. It is a wild, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own. At its heart lies the question of what it takes to love something, to deem its existence valuable (be it a robot, a stranger introduced as family, or a person with dementia). Blending the personal and the philosophical, the raw and the surreal, Harry Dodge re-enchants our world, illuminating the ways large and small coincidences make daily life shimmer into magic"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Dodge, Harry $x Psychology. 600 10 $a Dodge, Harry $v Anecdotes. 650 0 $a Human behavior. 941 $a 3 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20200804014648.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20200703010353.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200502010239.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=34E302888C3A11EAB4A2F82B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search