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We are joined by Joanne McNeil to discuss her new novel Wrong Way, which skillfully blends a beautiful literary style \u2014 focused on characterization, inner life, human relations \u2014 with a sci-fi story set in an alternative present / very near future. Joanne\u2019s novel takes the practices of Potemkin AI and pushes them to a logical extreme, revealing their true absurdity by centering the everyday life of an human worker whose job is to secretly imbue the technological future with autonomy. We talk about the need to tell stories about ordinary people and their social relations with the technical systems and corporations that structure their reality, rather than always focus on the hero\u2019s journey of gifted kids with oversized egos and privileged agency.\n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022 Follow Joanne: https://twitter.com/jomc \n\u2022\u2022\u2022 Read Wrong Way: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610661/wrongway \n\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \n\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)