This Machine Feeds
Will be published approx. on 18. February 2027
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-5299-3871-5 (ISBN)
Description
'One of the most important new voices in fiction' Alan Moore, author of Watchmen
Heather, a young performance artist with middling talent but flawless instincts for self-promotion, becomes an emblem of our times. As she prepares a work that promises ultimate revelation, her sense of the real begins to disintegrate.
By smashing apart the circuit board of late-capitalist life, we can now, at last, witness our ecosystem of surveillance and exploitation. In the sparking cables and blinking lights, we see clearly the humming madness beneath the surface of every image. And the violence of a world that insists on value in constant visibility.
Taking its reader on a cultural hell-ride - from reenactments of JFK's assassination to cherished friends that turn into pillars of salt - This Machine Feeds answers the question that howls in all of our chests: how can I be sane in insane times?
Heather, a young performance artist with middling talent but flawless instincts for self-promotion, becomes an emblem of our times. As she prepares a work that promises ultimate revelation, her sense of the real begins to disintegrate.
By smashing apart the circuit board of late-capitalist life, we can now, at last, witness our ecosystem of surveillance and exploitation. In the sparking cables and blinking lights, we see clearly the humming madness beneath the surface of every image. And the violence of a world that insists on value in constant visibility.
Taking its reader on a cultural hell-ride - from reenactments of JFK's assassination to cherished friends that turn into pillars of salt - This Machine Feeds answers the question that howls in all of our chests: how can I be sane in insane times?
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
368 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-3871-5 (9781529938715)
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Heather Parry is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year award and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. She is also the author of a short story collection, This Is My Body, Given For You, and a short nonfiction book, Electric Dreams: On Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism, and writes the Substack general observations on eggs. She was raised in Rotherham and lives in Glasgow with her partner and their cats, Fidel and Ernesto.