Motion studies /
Jena Osman's new poetry collection Motion Studies ... consists of three essay-poems that begin as meditations on 19th century science and end firmly as research into the present. From chronophotography to algorithmic surveillance, from phrenology to fMRI brain scans, from Victorian specimen col...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn, NY :
Ugly Duckling Presse,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Dossier series (Brooklyn, NY)
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| Summary: | Jena Osman's new poetry collection Motion Studies ... consists of three essay-poems that begin as meditations on 19th century science and end firmly as research into the present. From chronophotography to algorithmic surveillance, from phrenology to fMRI brain scans, from Victorian specimen collections to the bleached bones of the Great Barrier Reef, each poem in this collection explores technologies of knowing each other and the world we're in. --Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Jena Osman's new poetry collection Motion Studies ... consists of three essay-poems that begin as meditations on 19th century science and end firmly as research into the present. From chronophotography to algorithmic surveillance, from phrenology to fMRI brain scans, from Victorian specimen collections to the bleached bones of the Great Barrier Reef, each poem in this collection explores technologies of knowing each other and the world we're in."--From publisher. |
| Physical Description: | 139 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1946433233 9781946433237 |