{"product_id":"oriental-cyborg","title":"Oriental Cyborg","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho is the Oriental Cyborg? asks Aditi Kini in this collection of notes, jokes, and queries into the provenance of a creature designed for labor, 3-D printed in the technoscientific post-colonies, modeled on old automata. Race is a technology, that we know, and technology can be raced — so why inquire into this at all? Perhaps this, the Oriental Cyborg, is a fantasy more than a memory, or an echo more than a form — or just an essayist’s extraction of personal anguish and humor from globalist decay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking on the form of historical analysis \/ lyrical essay \/ documentary poem \/ experimental buzzword \/ positionality statement, this chapbook and its titular character might still be an elusive mystery even after reading. [publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Essay Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358161674580,"sku":"A8B-35289","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/oreintcyborg.jpg?v=1790814246","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/oriental-cyborg","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}