We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg

"We Radiant Things is criticism at its most intimate and alive. I am grateful for this book."-Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings

Blending lyric memoir and cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi's debut essay collection explores our obsession with cyborgs and what sci-fi representations of Asian femmes reveal about race, gender, sexuality, disability, labor, technology, and language.

In the 2014 film Ex-Machina, a Japanese maid named Kyoko-beautiful, obedient, unspeaking-peels b...