big thanks to Margaret Rhee and her students for this interview! They created a podcast series with author interviews, including those with myself, Mark Doten, Katie Williams, George Abraham, and Darius Kazemi.
Machine Dreams is a podcast created by the English undergraduate seminar in the Department of English at Harvard University. In our course, we’re interested in how machines, robots, and codes are represented in, and shaped by literary texts. For example, in 1920, Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the term “robot” in his play RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots) and transformed societal conceptions of mechanical beings. The contemporary literature we read as a class, similarly push the boundaries of the intersection of technology, machines, and literature. We had the fortunate opportunity to speak with invited authors on this topic of machines and literature, and engage in a collective conversation together. What follows is a dialogue that explores robots, technology, science fiction, intimacy, human conditions, and literary form. We are also interested in literature beyond the page, and the classroom. Our podcast interview is our gesture to a Machine Dream, and we hope you enjoy listening, and join our exploration together.”
Podcast homepage: http://machinedreams-podcast.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/?fbclid=IwAR032qyD6qwg7mauFo9dLgWWQF9kEiGbVxKnvQOvu6GRRkMkUbJ2TFAOt78
Podcast Soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/machinedreamspodcast
Link to episode: https://soundcloud.com/machinedreamspodcast/eugene-lim-dear-cyborgs