Sensorium Ex
An Opera in Verse
$42.43
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
In this dystopian tale of a near-future society increasingly threatened by all-consuming AI, a scientist mother and her disabled son rebel against the corporate larceny of their selves, by an award-winning poet.
In this story of the scientist DR. MEM and KITSUNE, her nonambulatory, non-speaking son, the pair fight CORP, a mega-company developing the most powerful AI robot ever conceived. What MEM learns is that CORP seeks “To give the robot something real. / What it can fake but not m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781524712884 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1524712884 |
| Author: | Brenda Shaughnessy |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Imprint: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 211g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 232mm |
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Critics Review
“[Sensorium Ex] captures the complexity of distinctions between corporate control of technology and its possibilities… . This story of mother and son itself offers a compelling contribution to human-centered literature about robots, AI, and disability, marked by Shaughnessy’s sure hand as a poet turned librettist.” —Literary Hub
Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet, mother, daughter, and teacher. She works at Rutgers University-Newark and lives in West Orange, NJ. She was educated in NYC and Santa Cruz, CA, having grown up in Thousand Oaks, CA. She spent her infancy in Wollaston, MA and Okinawa, where she was born at Kadena Air Base Hospital, United States Air Force, in 1970. Her mother is Mitsuko Higa, daughter of Yoshimoto Ushi and Higa Denko, of Yomitan.
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