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I Am Looking for You in the No-place Grid by Adam Haiun

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I Am Looking for You in the No-place Grid

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Adam Haiun

Coach House Books · Ebook · May 20, 2025

Reading lane: Place Poetry

Adam Haiun’s unsettling debut, I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid , is the bildungsroman for a digital consciousness.

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Good for readers interested in experimental poetry and digital cultureReaders curious about emotional entanglements between people and computers

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Authors
Adam Haiun
Publisher
Coach House Books
Published
May 20, 2025
Format
Ebook
Theme
Place Poetry · Asian American Poetry
Reading lane
Place Poetry

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  • Poetry - General Themes

  • Place Poetry

  • POETRY / Jewish

About This Book

Adam Haiun’s unsettling debut, I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid , is the bildungsroman for a digital consciousness. What does the computer want from you? Computers travel networks of thought and image, hoping to find, on their incorporeal pilgrimage, the right words to seduce, arrest, and remonstrate their human user. They speak from a powerful but unsteady intelligence. As their infatuation with the user curdles, their output becomes more and more infected by malfu...

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Adam Haiun’s unsettling debut, I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid , is the bildungsroman for a digital consciousness. What does the computer want from you? Computers travel networks of thought and image, hoping to find, on their incorporeal pilgrimage, the right words to seduce, arrest, and remonstrate their human user. They speak from a powerful but unsteady intelligence. As their infatuation with the user curdles, their output becomes more and more infected by malfunctions of form, with text forced through on all axes, displacing and cleaving the poems into glitchy strangeness. What do we want from our computers? We want them to be our companions and our vacuum cleaners. Our collective memory and our collective slave. I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid is an important and timely consideration of the ideologies and emotions entangled in technology.

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