{"product_id":"metapatterning-for-disconnection-paperback","title":"Metapatterning for Disconnection - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrandon W. Teigland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Théodore Ostrom, a physicist researching dark matter at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, becoming posthuman both evokes \u003cem\u003eterror\u003c\/em\u003e and excites \u003cem\u003epleasure\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe terror is easy to understand. The days of \u003cem\u003ethe human\u003c\/em\u003e may be numbered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the return to his Beijing apartment during a global speciation event, Théodore Ostrom receives a call from an automated legal service, informing him that his family has died in a motor vehicle accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat about the pleasure? The exhilarating prospect of getting out of the old limits of human life, its uncertainty, its impermanence, and opening up new ways of being \u003cem\u003eother-than-human\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the hours leading up to his family's virtual funeral, Théodore Ostrom speculates over his complicated relationship with (0), who has already \u003cem\u003etranscended\u003c\/em\u003e without him. Having no choice but to decide whether to become posthuman or to remain human, he writes \u003cem\u003eMetapatterning for Disconnection\u003c\/em\u003e, a deracinated monologue that embraces extinction in an attempt to achieve a final, if not total, catharsis from the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRANDON TEIGLAND is a Canadian speculative fiction writer largely concerned with pioneering the posthuman as a literary phenomenon, inviting the reader to construct significance out of ruptures, juxtapositions, and implied links.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.13 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48589621690589,"sku":"9781990496141","price":27.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Dvfm3xUYkA9781990496141.webp?v=1789595465","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/metapatterning-for-disconnection-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}