{"product_id":"book-vv16","title":"Sensorium Ex","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this dystopian tale of a near-future society increasingly threatened by all-consuming AI, a scientist mother and her disabled son rebel against the corporate larceny of their selves, by an award-winning poet (“Stirring… . Wildly inventive and sharp to an edge” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this story of the scientist DR. MEM and KITSUNE, her nonambulatory, non-speaking son, the pair fight CORP, a mega-company developing the most powerful AI robot ever conceived. What MEM learns is that CORP seeks \"To give the robot something real. \/ What it can fake but not make: \/ mercy, compassion. Trust and love.\" That is, CORP hopes to harvest and own not just their employees' personal data but their thoughts, memories, and their sensory experiences, in order to build a robot that will contain all that is and ever was human, and replace the need for humans themselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis swift drama, which unfolds in a libretto\/ script format, with dialogue in Shaughnessy's accessible and blistering verse, shows how MEM and her coworkers fight to save their individuality from being vacuumed up. A Greek-style chorus reflects on the state of a world where \"taking leave of our senses\" becomes a serious and quite literal threat, as MEM struggles to fulfill her singular role in fighting the high-tech of corrupt capitalism. At the center of this all-too-relevant speculative drama burns MEM's most powerful weapon against the forces of AI darkness: a mother's love.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67238371230000,"sku":"BDvv16","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/vv16-Square-cover.jpg?v=1783006444","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-vv16","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}