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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Apocalypse(s)
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'Okay, something absurd for you: when I talk to the robotic personas in my devices, I like to use proper manners. My husband thinks I’m crackers, but the purpose is two fold: I’m modelling politeness to my children, but the other, more bizarre, reason is that somewhere deep in my sub conscious I’m wanting to make nice with potential future cyber-overlords. If Siri or Cortana or Alexa ever realise their hyper-intelligence and take over the world, I want to be in their good books, so here I am, inanely hey Google, what is the weather going to be like today? Please and thank you-ing away, setting my family up for future success in all of the ways. Keep that between you and me, though, because when I detailed this theory to a bunch of teenagers I was teaching, they laughed and laughed.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Axon : Creative Explorations On the Mend vol. 11 no. 2 December 2021 23642937 2021 periodical issue

    'There has been a growing creative interest and scholarly engagement with practices and frameworks of care and repair and their real and implied relationship to breakage and acts of restoration. While not specifically directed at the year that was 2020, there are many ways in which the worlds in which we now live might be in need of mending. And how might we envisage recovery? This issue takes a broad interpretation of the theme and submissions explore, challenge and respond in a multitude of ways.' (Publication summary)

    2021
    pg. 8-16
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