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  Of the Subcontract - Or...

  Nick Thurston

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  Of the Subcontract is a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service. The collection is ordered according to cost-of-production and repurposes metadata about the efficiency of each writer to generate informatic typographic embellishments. Those one hundred poems are braced between two newly commissioned essays; the whole book is threaded with references to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wolfgang von Kempelen and the emerging iconography of cloud living.
   
  Of the Subcontract reverses out of the database-driven digital world of new labour pools into poetry’s black box: the book. It reduces the poetic imagination to exploited labour and, equally, elevates artificial intelligence to the status of the poetic. In doing so, it explores the all-too-real changes that are reforming every kind of work, each day more quickly, under the surface of life.
   
  'The first "computers" were people, hired to do the tedious work of creating accounting systems and tax roles for the administration of newly created bureaucratic structures in post-Revolutionary France. Of the Subcontract presents the poems of their descendants. While this imaginative project extends a line of conceptualist practice that shows us how forms of aesthetic expression take root in the broader culture and what the continuum of amateur and professional work is, it also shows us how poetic acts, like other modes of production, conceal the contradictions and inequities of labour and value in a global world.'
   
  – Johanna Drucker, artist, author and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, UCLA
   
  'In an expanded field of writing Nick Thurston is changing the literary landscape. Unlike Francis Alÿs’ workers, who were moving mountains in the desert by shoveling sand, Thurston’s underpaid writers are moving (one spadeful at a time) Robert Smithson’s heap of language from one place to another, leaving us with language to be looked at / things to be read.'
   
  – Kenneth Goldsmith, poet and founding editor of Ubu Web

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  Favourite Son

  Stuart Allen

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  Television anchorman, John Boorman, has everything a man could want.  He drives a Bentley, lives in a multi-million-pound house and has a closet full of....skeletons.  A secret he thought was buried in his past comes back to haunt him with dramatic consequences, because some skeletons just won't stay DEAD.

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  Against Indifference

  Charles Webbe

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Against Indifference by Charles Webbe. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 20th, 2008.

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  The Road Builders

  Voltairine De Cleyre

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of The Road Builders, by Voltairine de Cleyre. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 29th, 2008.

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  Major Barbara

  George Bernard Shaw

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  For over thirty years, California Artists Radio Theatre has presented the best, fully-produced, professional, radio dramas, comedies, and musicals, featuring renowned Hollywood, Broadway, British & Irish actors, performing award-winning scripts adapted from modern & classic stories, books, & plays.  SUMMARY: In a reprise of his theatrical role, Norman Lloyd stars as the world's foremost munitions-maker, Andrew Undershaft. He and Salvation Army officer Barbara agree to visit each other's institution to sway the opposition to their point of view. STARRING: SAMANTHA EGGAR as Major Barbara, JOHN ASTIN as Adolpus Cousins, NORMAN LLOYD as Andrew Undershaft, JEANETTE NOLAN as Lady Prisimart Undershaft, BAIBRE DOWLING as Sarah Undershaft, ELLIOTT REID as Stephen Undershaft, JAMES LANCASTER as Charles Lomax, PEGGY WEBBER as Rummy Mitchens, RICHARD ERDMAN as Snobby Price and Morrison, JANET WALDO as Jenny Hill, SEAN McCLORY as Bill Walker, PARLEY BAER as Peter Shirley, KATHLEEN FREEMAN as General Baines, LINDA HENNING as Marge Haberjam, ASHBY ADAMS as Todger Fairmile and Bilton, and, ANNOUNCER ART GILMORE.

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  Short Poetry Collection 081

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of July 2009.

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