Are Friends Electric?

Are Friends Electric? offers a vivid and moving vision of a past, present, and future mediated by technology. The first part is comprised largely of found poems which emerge from conversations about sex bots, people who feel an intimate love for bridges, a meditation on Theo Jansen’s beautifully strange animal sculptures, and the lives of birds in cities. A series of speculative poems further explores questions of how we incorporate technology into our lives and bodies. In these poems on gr...