{"product_id":"murmur-by-will-eaves","title":"'Murmur' by Will Eaves","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eTaking the arrest and state-enforced chemical castration of Alan Turing as its historical pressure point, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMurmur\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e goes on to invent the mathematician Alec Pryor. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePryor isa Turing-like figure whose altered body becomes the site of an extended inquiry into consciousness, memory, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and without turning Turing’s life directly, Eaves works through journals, letters and dreams, making his biography dissolve into speculation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePryor thinks through mathematics, perception, language, love and machine intelligence while undergoing a punishment designed to make his body conform to the law’s idea of normality; the book’s great tension is between that coercive simplification and the almost irreducible complexity of consciousness itself. It won the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize and Republic of Consciousness Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths and James Tait Black prizes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCanongate Books paperback, 2019; this Canongate edition follows the original 2018 CB Editions publication. 192pp. Good. Moderate rubbing and shelf wear to covers, with visible edge and corner wear and some light creasing; internally clean and sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67586343764051,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-10-03T130550.831.png?v=1790996772","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/murmur-by-will-eaves","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}