What can creative responses to technology look like? How can technology's focus on ideas with application be embraced, rather than rejected? Does a sense of play offer a possibility, a way to begin thinking? What kind of thinking are we talking about, and where might this thinking take place? Can our own experiences become an origin that allows us to perform philosophy? A performative philosophy might not be exclusively about technology, but about our being-in-the-world, one in which technology plays a part but one we have initiated, from which we can also begin to think about being-in-landscape, about senses of existence. A poetic approach can verge on play: We might engage in telling experiences, finding examples, reflecting on concepts and expressions, and considering the functional and the dysfunctional. Our LEARN focuses on questions like these and works on approaches in our technological age that will develop in a poetic form, open to ludic reflection.

16th 2019 | Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Toni Areal, 10.15 am to 1.00 pm 14th 2019 | Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Toni Areal, 10.15 am to 08.30 pmįriday, Nov. R.S.A.Learning Environment and Research Nucleus (LEARN).Tochi Onyebuchi (Nigeria/USA) - “Screamers”.Eliza Victoria (Philippines) - “The Seventh”.Karla Schmidt (Germany, translated by Lara M.Ana Hurtado (Venezuela) - “El Cóndor del Machángara”.Chi Hui (China, translated by John Chu) - “The Calculations of Artificials”.Sara Saab (Lebanon) - “The Barrette Girls”.Israel Alonso (Spain, translated by Steve Redwood) - “You Will See the Moon Rise”.Bo-young Kim (South Korea, translated by Jihyun Park & Gord Sellar) - “An Evolutionary Myth”.Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia, translated by Jessica Sequeira) - “Our Dead World”.Basma Abdel Aziz (Egypt, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette) - “Scenes from the Life of an Autocrat”.Vandana Singh (India) - “Ambiguity Machines: An Examination”.Taiyo Fujii (Japan, translated by Jim Hubbert) - “Violation of the TrueNet Security Act”.Darcie Little Badger (USA/Lipan Apache) - “Nkásht íí”.Daína Chaviano (Cuba, translated by Matthew D.Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Singapore) - “A Series of Steaks”.Available in trade paperback and e-book now!Īlso worth mentioning you can pick up the first 4 volumes in one mega-bundle right here!Īnd here’s a lovely review of Volume 5 from Paul di Filippo in Locus! Cover art by the great Sarah Anne Langton. This volume’s guest-editor, Cristina, did an amazing job in her story selection (below). What was once just a mad gleam in my (admittedly, more youthful) eye has now hit its first decade(!) milestone and the fifth volume in the series. I’m delighted to say The Apex Book of World SF 5, guest-edited by Cristina Jurado, is out now!

Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi