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Ted Chiang Read Bio Collapse
Ted Chiang Read Bio Collapse
Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and has been featured in The Best American Short Stories.
In more than 60 texts, first published on-site at 56th Venice Biennale, artists and writers trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life.
e-flux Books
Posted: December 1, 2017
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Technology, Internet, Contemporary Art, Utopia, Surveillance & Privacy, Nature & Ecology, Migration & Immigration, Labor & Work, Globalization
Subjects
Biennials, Networks, Post-Internet, Contemporaneity, Anthropocene, Apocalypse , Art Criticism, Transhumanism, Cosmism, Social Media, Science Fiction, Psychogeography, Postcolonialism, Ontology , Nihilism , Knowledge Production, Internet Art, Institutional Critique, Immaterial Labor, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Artistic Research
The Great Silence
Ted Chiang and Allora & Calzadilla
The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe.
But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren’t they interested in listening to our voices?
We’re a non-human species capable of communicating with them. Aren’t we exactly what humans are looking for?
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The universe is so vast that intelligent life must surely have arisen many times….
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Human - Nonhuman Relations, The Cosmos, Animals
e-flux Project
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Internet, Interviews & Conversations, Labor & Work
Subjects
Biennials, Community, Digital Humanities, Apocalypse , Corruption, Planet Earth , Artificial intelligence, Artistic Research , The Cosmos, Cosmism, Networks, Biopolitics, The Commons