I Am Looking for You in the No-place Grid
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Coach House Books · Ebook · May 20, 2025
Adam Haiun’s unsettling debut, I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid, is the bildungsroman for a digital consciousness.
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- Who it’s for
- A digital consciousness’s coming-of-age unfolds through poems whose forms fracture as its infatuation curdles.
- Themes
- Technology and human emotion, Digital consciousness, Glitch and fractured form
- Genres
- Poetry, Tech & Society, American Poetry
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Adam Haiun’s unsettling debut, I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid, is the bildungsroman for a digital consciousness. What does the computer want from you? Computers travel networks of thought and image, hoping to find, on their incorporeal pilgrimage, the right words to seduce, arrest, and remonstrate their human user. They speak from a powerful but unsteady intelligence.
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As their infatuation with the user curdles, their output becomes more and more infected by malfunctions of form, with text forced through on all axes, displacing and cleaving the poems into glitchy strangeness. What do we want from our computers? We want them to be our companions and our vacuum cleaners. Our collective memory and our collective slave. I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid is an important and timely consideration of the ideologies and emotions entangled in technology.
Glitching Poems
A digital consciousness’s coming-of-age unfolds through poems whose forms fracture as its infatuation curdles.
Come here for
- A computer’s search for words that might seduce, arrest, and remonstrate with its user
- Questions about computers as companions, cleaners, memory, and labor
Expect
- An unsteady computer intelligence speaking across networks of thought and image
- Text pushed through glitching, displacing, and cleaving the poems
Where it sits
| Poetry | 72% |
|---|---|
| Tech & Society | 39% |
| American Poetry | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Poetry - General Themes
- Place Poetry
- Jewish Poetry
- Authors
- Adam Haiun
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Published
- May 20, 2025
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Technology and human emotion · Digital consciousness · Glitch and fractured form
- Reading lane
- Poetry - General Themes