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Chargement... The Electric State (2017)par Simon Stålenhag
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This hauntingly beautiful book lies somewhere in between a graphic novel and an illustrated novella. Whatever else it may be, it is incredible. The art is magnficent. I would be happy simply looking through a book of these pictures. However, Simon Stålenhag has also given us a mysterious, retrofuturistic, post-apocalyptic road trip story that has left me with as many questions as it has given me answers and a deep longing to return to this universe. Right off the bat, to be fair, I read this book as an e-book on my laptop, so the glorious artwork couldn't possibly be appreciated as much as reading a physical copy of the book. The e-book didn't allow me to enlarge the photos at all, so I was seeing this amazing stuff three inches wide. But the artwork is lovely - decayed technological weirdness in an American dystopia. The snippets of writing were also little bits of weirdness -- reminding me of the stilt people that are just casually passed by in Mad Max: Fury Road -- the viewer is wondering what the hell that just was. The snippets also get quite dark! My main problem with it is that the book is so short.. I want more words and artwork from this unique world. I wonder if or why hasn't Stalenhag ever created videogames with this artwork. I would set this on the shelf beside 'Ready Player One' by Ernest Cline and 'FKA USA' by Reed King. Futuristic story told with a mixture of words and pictures, about a young woman travelling across America, the land devastated by war, and the population addicted to virtual reality headsets "Neurocaster". Her brother manages to contact her through his VR headset which connects to a Robot "Kid Kosmo", and leads her to where he awaits help. Beautiful open-ended story of sibling love and courage. Amazing colour illustrations throughout. One of the characters interestingly, suffered from galactorrhoea (milk production) as well as his addiction. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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But do we really have souls? Or are we just endlessly programmable creatures whose code can be cracked even if the entirety of our minds have not been mapped yet? Psychological studies might point to the latter, and so does The Electric State - because even though the human brain and its composition are still hardly understood in the 90s, Sentre's neurocasters provide enough access to the psyche for a hive mind to form through thousands of smaller connected ones. It's terrifying and yet somewhat unsurprising that this might be the culmination of all our advances, which has been called many names before and done many different ways: mob mentality, folie ? plusieurs, mass hysteria, and even 'sheeple.'
After reading this a second time, with the actual hardcover edition before me, and with Tales From the Loop and Things From the Flood under my belt, I gained a new love for this story - and, as usual, can't say enough times how brilliant it is. Darkly beautiful imagery is juxtaposed with a young woman's memory of her own imperfect, depressing but still human and sometimes nostalgic past, to which she can never return. An unknown narrator (who I highly suspect is Michelle's mother in a nonhuman form) also makes her presence known with memories of the drone war and how the hive mind arose. And we make a return once again to the towering architecture and robotic creatures that make Stalenhag's art so distinctive.
Unpacking this digital apocalypse uncovers so many layers for me:
All in all, this is a grotesquely beautiful work that is sure to present new shades of meaning every time I come back to it. Its genius lies in its ambiguity, forcing us to think instead of falling into the same trap as the followers of the hive mind.
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