I spent the next several years looking for a publisher for both Proxy and Field of Bones - by now renamed Echogenesis - to no avail. I originally submitted an outline of Proxy to my old publishers way back in 2015, along with an outline for another book then called Field of Bones, only to find myself dropped by my publisher shortly before the publication of what would be my last book for them, Survival Game. What they each discover on the streets of a near-future London crippled by multiple pandemics has the potential to change the course of civilisation.so long as they can stop the wrong people getting their hands on it first. Proxy dealer Elijah wants to know who's trying to kill him, and how it's connected to a new kind of proxy that's hit the streets. When Ray Thomas is hired to find the daughter of his sworn enemy, the private detective soon learns there's more to the illegal bio-implant technology known as proxy than body-swapping. But those who like my stuff because of the focus on outrageous technological speculation are likely to find plenty here to satisfy them. And some other things I won't say for fear of giving too much away. It's just as much a crime novel set a few decades from now, and a novel about corporate conspiracy. While not strictly 'cyberpunk', the focus, nonetheless, is on a technology for which the street has found its own uses, so it's broadly applicable. ![]() Set in mid-21st Century London, it tells the story of a struggle for control of a wildly popular – and mostly illegal – body-swapping technology called 'proxy'. RCPP is run by Boaz Levin and Vera Tollmann.Proxy, my new novel, will become available for download and purchase on Augin ebook, paperback and hardback. Between September 2014 and August 2017, the center hosted workshops, lectures and events at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, under the auspices of Hito Steyerl’s Lensbased class. The Research Center for Proxy Politics (RCPP) explores and reflects upon the nature of medial networks and their actors. What is the relation between the molecular and the planetary? How to fathom the computational regime? Yet, whilst being a manifestation of the networked age, thinking like a proxy offers loopholes and strategies for survival within it. ![]() This publication looks at proxy-politics on both a micro and a macro level, exploring proxies as objects, as well as networks as objects. ![]() Thus, the proxy works as a dialectical figure that is woven into the fabric of networks, where action and stance seem to be masked, calculated and remote-controlled. Originating in the Latin procurator, an agent representing others in a court of law, proxies are now emblematic of a post-democratic political age, one increasingly populated by bot militias, puppet states, and communication relays. The proxy, a decoy or surrogate, is today often used to designate a computer server acting as an intermediary for requests from clients.
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