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catalyst-37332	McCartha, Madison	Notes toward a Virtual Poetics: An Essay on Solaris, Assemblage, and Blackness	2022		.htm	text/html	9865	480	52	If the Solarian ocean becomes, like a work of new media art, an interactive surface for its foreign occupants, then this abject interface allows us to imagine the ocean’s refractive activity as one in a series of defensive strategies the surface deploys to protect itself against the logics of the human, and of the gaze; the political-aesthetic stakes of which are made clear by the single racialized simulacra in Lem’s novel—a surrogate surface for the ocean itself. What are the poetics new media technology makes possible, and how does new media’s complicity with processes of racialization both change and charge, for artists and writers, the politics of choosing to work with these technologies?   ◈   Vision always comes true.	cache/catalyst-37332.htm	txt/catalyst-37332.txt