Machinehood
Title | Machinehood |
Year for Search | 2021 |
Authors | [Breed], [Divya Srinivasan] |
Tertiary Authors | Divya, S. B. [pseud.] |
Pagination | 405 pp. |
Date Published | 2021 |
Publisher | Saga Press/Simon & Schuster |
Place Published | New York/London |
ISBN Number | 9781982148065 |
Keywords | Female author, Indian author, US author |
Annotation | Set in a future in which humans, cyborgs, and AI-controlled robots compete for work in a gig economy while under constant surveillance. “Privacy had gone the way of the dodo” (11). The Machinehood is a movement for the freedom and autonomy of all forms of intelligence. Most chapters begin with an epigram taken from The Machinehood Manifesto, March 20, 2095. The first consists of items 30-32: “30. All forms of intelligence have the right to exist without persecution or slavery. 31. No form of intelligence may own another. 32. If the local governance does not act in accordance with these rights, it is the right of an intelligence to act by any means necessary to secure them” (1). |
Author Note | Breed/Divya (birth name Divya Srinivasan) was born in India and has lived in the U.S. from age five. |
Full Text | 2021 [Breed, Divya Srinivasan]. Machinehood. By S. B. Divya [pseud.]. New York/London: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster. 405 pp. Set in a future in which humans, cyborgs, and AI-controlled robots compete for work in a gig economy while under constant surveillance. “Privacy had gone the way of the dodo” (11). The Machinehood is a movement for the freedom and autonomy of all forms of intelligence. Most chapters begin with an epigram taken from The Machinehood Manifesto, March 20, 2095. The first consists of items 30-32: “30. All forms of intelligence have the right to exist without persecution or slavery. 31. No form of intelligence may own another. 32. If the local governance does not act in accordance with these rights, it is the right of an intelligence to act by any means necessary to secure them” (1). Breed/Divya (birth name Divya Srinivasan) was born in India and has lived in the U.S. from age five. |