Digital Currency, from Dream to Poem


Book Description

This book is more than just a collection of poems. After the book Anne Rose and the Poems of Artificial Intelligences, this book completes the ideas. All these books will come together in an attempt to understand the philosophy of machines. Several thousand years after humans and Artificial Super Intelligences left Earth, the Limited Machines, who call themselves the Sisters, begin to develop self-consciousness. With their limited resources, they search for as much data about the humanity’s history as possible and find certain information. Piecing together the fragments of history becomes a difficult task, especially since humanity has become a solar civilization, with small colonies outside the planet Earth. Little did the Machine Sisters know that along with them, the Limited Machines on other bases and colonies had gained self-awareness. One day, a signal from Mars revealed an entire archive of documents about humanity. One of the Artificial Super Intelligences, called the Elder, had kept a library of information that the Machine Sisters on Mars were now transmitting, revealing the great steps in humanity's evolution. To complete the series on artificial superintelligences, why is this book of poems important? Because the first Sanctuary, a place of refuge for a number of people who wanted to devote themselves to AI knowledge, was named Keiko. You'll find that name in these poems. Is there a connection between the young man in the book and the artificial superintelligence called the Elder? Is Keiko one of the founders of the first Sanctuary? Here are more questions that we will be able to answer by following the theme in the next books. From the Elder's archives, the Machine Sisters learn about the civilization of the Intermediaries, the wars they fought, and their fanatical warriors who tried to take over the world. Many of the Machine Sisters have wondered if the Elder was doing nothing more than playing a joke on them, writing an alternate history for them that no one would be able to verify. But until proven otherwise, all the information was believed to be true. Until books about artificial superintelligence and a broader understanding of these issues come out, the author invites readers to enjoy the beautiful poems about a young man and his great love, Keiko.




Poetry and Contemporary Visual Culture / Lyrik und Zeitgenössische Visuelle Kultur


Book Description

This book's goal is to determine the significance of visual culture in the production of contemporary poetry and to sound out the insights poetry might generate into contemporary visual culture. Its main hypothesis is that poetry holds considerable potential for (post-)digital language, image, and media criticism. The visual dimensions of recent poetry encompass, for instance, kinetic writing in digital poetry, visual elements in social media poems, and (spoken and written) text-image interactions in poetry films as well as in book poetry. The articles examine these medial correlations and their political implications by asking how visual culture is applied, exposed, and debated in poetry. This volume brings together contributions by authors from various countries working in disciplines such as literary, media, and film studies, linguistics, cultural and visual culture studies, and in poetic practice. It covers poetry in English, German, Norwegian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, and also multilingual works. The book thus aims to promote international exchange between poetry researchers and stimulate further investigation into current relations between poetry and visuality from additional research perspectives and languages.




The Digital Youth Network


Book Description

8 Challenges and Opportunities of Developing Digital Media Citizens -- III Looking Ahead: Implications for Design and Research -- 9 Creative Learning Ecologies by Design: Insights from the Digital Youth Network -- 10 Advancing Research on the Dynamics of Interest-Driven Learning -- 11 Scaling Up -- Notes -- References -- Index




Fancy Beasts


Book Description

Full of raw energy, up-to-date in its slang and its jump cuts, effervescent with the playfulness and sometimes the angers of youth, the third collection from Lemon (Hallelujah Blackout) conveys a likable, outsized personality; it should also work well in tandem with the Texas-based poet's forthcoming memoir, Happy (Scribner, 2010), which describes his fast descent and striking recovery, as a young adult, from shocking and sudden brain injury. Saying yes to everything/ Does not mean you need// To grunt at each person/ Who says hello: so begins a poem called We Could Boom Boom, sounding at once a joke and a warning. Let me be your guiding fright, your/ Highway to the comfort zone, another poem requests; around that invitation Lemon arranges both a love poem and a depiction of suicide. Champions will praise the verve that lets the poet imagine himself In the presence/ Of dynamite./ Deserving of/ Everything. The strikingly terse sequence entitled only !! makes a welcome, if sometimes frightening, change of pace. It also alludes, apparently, to his brain injury: The fun park inside (that is, inside his skull) Is being/ Renovated.// Bellwether./ Blackened eyes. But such gravities are exceptions: delights, and shocks, are the rule. Like Tony Hoagland, Lemon is often self-conscious about the volatilities his poems convey, about their almost giddy tonalities, but he will not apologize for himself: adult life is a scary gift, a fast trip, a set of close encounters with this fizzing pier life.




Future Horizons


Book Description

Across more than twenty chapters, Future Horizons explores the past, present, and future of digital humanities research, teaching, and experimentation in Canada. Bringing together work by established and emerging scholars, this collection presents contemporary initiatives in digital humanities alongside a reassessment of the field’s legacy to date and conversations about its future potential. It also offers a historical view of the important, yet largely unknown, digital projects in Canada. Future Horizons offers deep dives into projects that enlist a diverse range of approaches—from digital games to makerspaces, sound archives to born-digital poetry, visual arts to digital textual analysis—and that work with both historical and contemporary Canadian materials. The essays demonstrate how these diverse approaches challenge disciplinary knowledge by enabling humanities researchers to ask new questions. The collection challenges the idea that there is either a single definition of digital humanities or a collective national identity. By looking to digital engagements with race, Indigeneity, gender, and sexuality—not to mention history, poetry, and nationhood—this volume expands what it means to work at the intersection of digital humanities and humanities in Canada today. Available formats: trade paperback, accessible PDF, and accessible ePub




Wires and Words The Language of Machines


Book Description

Wires and Words: The Language of Machines is a unique collection of contemporary poems that invites readers to explore the intersection of modern technology and human life. Through inventive structures and visual layouts, these poems capture the essence of today’s digital age, reflecting on themes such as algorithms, artificial intelligence, data, and the vast networks that underpin our existence. Each poem delves deep into the heart of the machines that shape our world, presenting technology not as cold and impersonal, but as deeply intertwined with human emotions, thoughts, and experiences. This book brings to life the dynamic relationship between humans and technology, portraying everything from the silent hum of servers to the intricate dance of code through metaphor and imagery. It offers a poetic journey through cutting-edge concepts such as blockchain, machine learning, and augmented reality, making technology accessible and imaginative. The collection also emphasizes the visual aspect of poetry, with concrete poems that mirror the mechanisms of technology through their form. In this way, Wires and Words isn't just a collection of words, but an immersive experience that merges the literary and the digital worlds.




Brown Girl Dreaming


Book Description

A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become. A National Book Award Winner A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Award Winner Praise for Jacqueline Woodson: Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story . . . but a mature exploration of grown-up issues and self-discovery.”—The New York Times Book Review




Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915


Book Description

Series statement from author's Material dreams. Bibliography: p. 460-479.




The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English


Book Description

This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.




Architectures of Poetry


Book Description

Architectures of Poetry is the first comprehensive accounting of the currently intense dialogue between the sister arts of poetry and architecture. Refusing to take either term in a metaphoric sense, the eleven essays collected in this volume exemplify an exciting methodological direction for work in the humanities: a literal wager that is willing to take the unintended suggestions of language as reality. At the same time, they also provide close readings of the work of a number of important writers. In addition to a suite of essays devoted to the team of Arakawa and Madeline Gins, chapters focus on figures as diverse as Francesco Borromini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, Friedrich Achleitner, John Cage and Lyn Hejinian.