About the Book: We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg
"We Radiant Things is criticism at its most intimate and alive. I am grateful
for this book."—Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings
Blending lyric memoir and cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Chois debut
essay collection explores our obsession with cyborgs and what sci-fi
representations of Asian femmes reveal about race, gender, sexuality,
disability, labor, technology, and language.
In the 2014 film Ex-Machina, a Japanese maid named Kyoko—beautiful, obedient,
unspeaking—peels back the skin on her face to reveal glimmering circuitry. The
white man who has been trying to understand her