{"product_id":"sensorium-ex-an-opera-in-verse-by-brenda-shaughnessy","title":"Sensorium: Ex An Opera in Verse by Brenda Shaughnessy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKnopf:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this dystopian tale of a near-future society increasingly threatened by all-consuming AI, a scientist mother and her disabled son rebel against the corporate larceny of their selves, by an award-winning poet (“Stirring. . . . Wildly inventive and sharp to an edge” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn this story of the scientist DR. MEM and KITSUNE, her nonambulatory, non-speaking son, the pair fight CORP, a mega-company developing the most powerful AI robot ever conceived. What MEM learns is that CORP seeks \"To give the robot something real. \/ What it can fake but not make: \/ mercy, compassion. Trust and love.\" That is, CORP hopes to harvest and own not just their employees' personal data but their thoughts, memories, and their sensory experiences, in order to build a robot that will contain all that is and ever was human, and replace the need for humans themselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis swift drama, which unfolds in a libretto\/ script format, with dialogue in Shaughnessy's accessible and blistering verse, shows how MEM and her coworkers fight to save their individuality from being vacuumed up. A Greek-style chorus reflects on the state of a world where \"taking leave of our senses\" becomes a serious and quite literal threat, as MEM struggles to fulfill her singular role in fighting the high-tech of corrupt capitalism. At the center of this all-too-relevant speculative drama burns MEM's most powerful weapon against the forces of AI darkness: a mother's love.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52826109739301,"sku":"9781524712884","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/9781524712884.jpg?v=1784665708","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/sensorium-ex-an-opera-in-verse-by-brenda-shaughnessy","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}