Vauhini Vara

Searches (eBook, ePUB)

Selfhood in the Digital Age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Electric Literature's 48 Books by Women of Colour to Read in 2025 When Vauhini Vara was fourteen, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Too terrified to discuss it with a human, Vara instead turned to the fledgling internet with her questions. Those seminal early experiences influenced her decision to become a technology reporter; decades later, she used a predecessor to ChatGPT to help her write about her sister's death. In this provocative, timely and highly personal account of our interdependent relationship with technology, she examines the early days of the internet, the encroachment of social media into our lives and how we might work with AI in the future. Brimming with candour, humour and a probing, roving intelligence, Searches anoints Vara, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, as an essential voice for our moment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Press UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804710692
• Artikelnr.: 71513238

Autorenporträt

Vauhini Vara has been a reporter and editor for The Atlantic, The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, and is the prize-winning author of The Immortal King Rao (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) and This is Salvaged. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Inhaltsangabe

A Supportive and Constructive Perspective 3
1. Your Whole Life Will Be Searchable 5
2. Searches 21
Thank You for Sharing 26
3. I Gifted It to Them 28
4. A Great Deal 43
The Balance of These Narratives 55
5. We Can All Connect and Share 59
6. Elon Musk, Empire 79
Acknowledge Positive Contributions 83
7. Stealing Great Ideas 91
8. I Am Hungry to Talk 104
Lowering Defenses 134
9. We Have to Do a Magic Trick 140
10. Ghosts 149
A Powerful Statement of Empowerment 165
11. Record the World 182
12. Resurrections 197
These Rhetorical Strategies 236
13. Thank You for Your Important Work 243
14. Penumbra 260
Hey, Sis 270
15. The Master’s Tools 273
16. What Is It Like to Be Alive? 291
Acknowledgments 327
Notes on Process 331