Thread by @jamesbridle

I am very pleased and excited to announce that I have a new book coming out this year: WAYS OF BEING, published in April in the UK, June in the US, and hopefully elsewhere soon. It's about technology, ecology, and the intelligence of everything.

Here's the UK cover from @PenguinBooks, which will be released in April in all good bookstores, designed by @matthewoyoung. You can pre-order already! smarturl.it/waysofbeing

And here's the US cover, to be published by @fsgbooks in June, designed by @pablodelcan and illustrated by @jonwrhan. Also appearing for pre-orders soon, US folks!

The book starts with the realisation - inherited from NEW DARK AGE - that our technologies are really not helping us, and need urgent re-imagination. From there I wander through AI, non-human intelligence, the amazing worlds of plants, fungi, micro-organisms...

... have a crack at felling the tree of evolution, play with some non-binary computers, investigate true randomness, and consider what a truly more-than-human politics of solidarity would actually consist of. It was a blast to write and I hope you'll enjoy reading it.

I look forward to discussing it much more in the coming months. And I won't stop talking about it, sorry. If you'd like a review copy, please contact the publishers, otherwise stand by for April :)