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[READ: July 15, 2023] Algorithmic Reality
I received this book at work with a bunch of other graphic novels from NBM. I liked the stuff they sent out–anti-corporate and promoting the underground. And this book fits in with that ethic.
I don’t know David Sánchez’s work, but his style in this book reminds me of Chris Ware and Ted Rall. Ware in particular because the characters look vaguely the same in every panel (on purpose) with minimal changes between panels. Damian Bradfield is a British businessman (that’s pretty much all it says about him on the book) and he has written four tales of dystopian technology takeover.
In the first, a man goes to a store to buy a pair of shoes. He doesn’t buy any but the employee follows him seemingly everywhere to make sure he doesn’t want them. On the street. In the grocery store (where the employee has photos of the sneakers). Then he sees the employee in different outfits everywhere until finally the employee is in his house. The employee is never aggressive, just always there–like your ads on your phone. (more…)
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