Playing a symphony on board the station above the new world, the man leans hard towards the old sounds, places his cheek against the cold speaker. Even as the vessel flings forward through a stream of detritus – bows of dead satellites, many-ton compacted cubes of trash – and the view out is brilliant, his mind stays on the Rachmaninoff, on Van Cliburn. Number Two, as far back as he can remember, has been punctuated by the soft tick of the breathing machines, […]

Categories: Affect, Creativity, Nostalgia, Writing • Tags: Cyborg, Cyborg Manifesto, Digital, Digitalisms, Donna Haraway, Technology, Technoromance, Technoromanticism