Rob Harle’s latest collection of poems Mechanisms of Desire explores deeply these concerns of our time. Rob Harle, a senior artist and poet, once described his artworks as “a kind of documentation of the technoMetamorphosis”[i], and this can be applied to describe this collection of 39 poems, which explores “the philosophy of Transhumanism, Artificial Intelligence and the nature of Embodiment”. Interestingly, some of the poems have their illustrated counterparts in the form of digital arts in black and white. Rob Harle is very much aware of the mechanisms of digital technology and this helps him to explore certain ‘dark’ aspects technology carries along when it is applied collectively for satisfaction of consumerist greed. The poet seems to have no objection to the use of technology itself and he himself makes use of the latest technology to create his artworks; he objects only when the machine threatens to replace the human attributes and even humans in near future." Read more rupkatha/book-review-mechanisms-of-desire-by-rob-harle/
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:18:12 +0000
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