The gorgeous movement animations present the cybernetic body as both fluid and brittle; the frame rate chops and it almost looks as though pixels are falling off with every violent act. The player and machine come together and collapse again in a swarm of noise. Within minutes it has more to say about apocalypticism and speculative futures, networked subjectivity, and the materiality of digital memory than any book I've ever come across.

Reviewed on Jun 02, 2021


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