MACHINATIONS

MACHINATIONS is a dialogue between two poets, one a mathematician, the other dyscalculic, about machines and man. Or rather, one man, who thought a great deal about machines and their potential to think: Alan Turing.

The poetry in this collection is experimental and exploratory, some of it creating entirely new forms by assigning words through the binary encoding of an image and its representation in phonemes. Some of it examines the life and work of Turing, responding to and reflecting upon his ground-breaking work in both computing and morphogenesis. Through this, themes of surveillance, difference, queerness are explored, as well as algorithmic influences upon our everyday lives, and the closing gap between what separates machines from humankind.

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