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Laurie Sheck

As seen in: USA Today, Literary Hub, Poem-a-Day, The Paris Review, BillMoyers.com, Kirkus Reviews, 3 Quarks Daily, Public Seminar
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Of Monsters and AI

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By Laurie Sheck
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1. A monster disrupts accepted systems of meaning. Unsettles certainties. Dismantles familiar definitions. Wounds and scars them. Brings into the world a sense of dread, excitement, crisis. It appears at the seams and boundaries of existing things: human/animal; sentient/machine; natural/artificial, and reveals those seams as fragile, provisional, ambiguous, porous. A monster lives at the tenuous border between chaos and order. Fractures and upsets coherence.
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Walking in the City

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By Laurie Sheck
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1. In his 1980 essay Walking in the City, Michel de Certeau describes looking out at Manhattan from the 110 th floor of the World Trade Center. Viewed from above, the city is "a wave of verticals. Its agitation momentarily arrested...The gigantic mass is immobilized before the eyes." From that vantage point, the city lies still, unimpeded, its extremes of wealth and poverty coinciding in the vast landscape below.
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Bakhtin's Freedom - 3 Quarks Daily

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By Laurie Sheck
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1. Always when I think of him, I picture him alone in a room, bedridden for months at a time. How from late childhood on, he suffered from osteomyelitis, an incurable infection of the bone that set flame to raw nerve fibers, induced recurring fevers, skin lesions, intense, crippling pain. And how in that enforced solitude he wrote about the ways the self is not isolate but comes into being through contact with others. How this is its beauty and its freedom.
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