Technology as Subject - Poems That Actually Engage With How We Live Now

[BretHart_99]

There is a lot of poetry that mentions technology without really engaging with it. A poem that name-drops a smartphone or uses wifi as a metaphor is not the same as a poem that genuinely grapples with what it feels like to live inside the systems we live inside.

Sharing this week partly because I have been thinking about what it means to write seriously about AI, quantum computing, and the pace of change without just making reference poems. The best work on this seems to come from unexpected angles.

What poetry, old or new, do you think genuinely engages with technology rather than just using it as scenery?

[Chris_50]

Alice Oswald is interesting here. She does not write about technology directly but her work on rivers and time and attention feels like the correct counter-argument to acceleration culture