Dark Constellations Tapestry - Perfect for Bedroom & Boho Decor
Dark Constellations Tapestry - Perfect for Bedroom & Boho Decor

Dark Constellations Tapestry - Perfect for Bedroom & Boho Decor

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Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac’s visionary new novel races from the world of 19th-century science to an ultra-surveilled near future, exploring humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, and leaping forward to the next steps in human evolution.   Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century mania for scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruun researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another.   Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet and becomes a prominent hacker, riding the wave of transformations brought about by distributed networks, mass surveillance, and new flows of globalized capital.   The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: A research group works on a project that will allow the Ministry of Genetics to track every movement of the country’s citizens without their knowledge or consent, using sensors that identify DNA at a distance. But the new technology contains within it the seeds of a far more radical transformation of human life and civilization. In a novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac’s complexly intertwining stories reveal the power that resides in the world’s most deeply shadowed spaces.

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this is the latest addition to the fiction of lost worlds, filled with exotic fauna the envy of tat-too artists, caverns leading to primitive paradises with young sexually aggressive women and prose the author, j k Huysmans of the 19th century decadent movement would have appreciated:‘… Nunzia Lucrezia Damatida, in whose reddish hair was an ornament made of Scorpioniadie scintillans, a translucid scorpion with golden legs. Venetia d’Adda made an entrance: swathes of tulle in black and blue and green, a tall beehive hairdo, a shoulder-length mantilla bearing pieces of jewelry in the shape of fruits, beetles and tiny luminescent worms. Tartare mentioned, “Emperor Dom Joao and the unidentified women from the courtesan world who accompany him, each wearing a hairpiece of dried snakes, each with thin cold chains coiled around her arms. “ ‘told in three different time periods, the dark constellations of the jungles where plant life mutates with the insect world are transposed on to the dark constellations of the internet and the hackers who journey there with agendas of 21st century mutations of human and machine. told is the biography of the first forty years of cassio’s life from solitary hacker to part of a group of hackers on the dark web to working for tech companies, inventing a code capable of reading the dna of every living organism on the planet to befriending a visionary living in palaces in the jungles of brazil.young people soaring like comets, sharing world-weary pronouncements:“There was a time we were navigating unexplored areas in the dark, but we had instruments that were better than maps, and the owners of those spaces didn’t even know they existed as spaces, much less how to find the access tunnels. For us it was like taking a stroll. And every human rite of intelligence is based on the same thing, on bonfires in the darkness, because nobody ever really knows … but now, no matter where you go, the sun’s right there like some surgical lamp. … But the most interesting thing is that they’ve already decided that computers—and the software that is their blood—can perfectly well be combined with their own human bodies.”there’s nothing new here. if you’re weary of the genre, skip this one. but if lost worlds and tech worlds sci-fi literature still grabs you, by all means read this. the real kick is oloixarac’s Savage Theories.
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