Praise for Air Age Blueprint

‘Air Age Blueprint inaugurates a new stage in twenty-first century AI writing. K Allado-McDowell’s book has come into being through a collaboration between different forms of intelligence and its story presents a continuation of its own making – a coming together of different forms of existence and thought.’ – Hans Ulrich Obrist

‘Air Age Blueprint elegantly weaves immigrant family histories, native entheogenic cultures, and cybernetic manifestos of social revolution into a collaborative human-machine writing adventure. It certainly opens a portal to a de-anthropocentric narrative of the future. An unquestionable tour-de-force.’ – Chen Qiufan, author of The Waste Tide and AI2041:Ten Visions for Our Future

‘Air Age Blueprint is a visionary book, a map of cognitive experiments, amplifying possibilities for otherness to manifest, contaminating self and belief, and rewriting transformational roads. Co-writers K Allado-McDowell and their AI companion have hallucinated an animistic techne, a spirit pollinator, a portal for human and non-human to correspond beyond their self-centred worlds.’ – Pierre Huyghe

‘At once futuristic and suspended in time, Air Age Blueprint is a rich meditation, remarkable field manual and work of techno-sorcery for our Aquarian times. Existing in the last gasps of our failing contemporaneity, we are presented with a portrait of a poet and seeker looking into the scrying mirror of an AI companion. Through this journey, we reemerge as readers: transformed, shaky, hallucinating and left wondering – who is the mirror and who is the object? Air Age Blueprint is the magical work I didn’t know I needed to read.’ – Xiaowei Wang, author of Blockchain Chicken Farm

‘Air Age Blueprint is a work of healing/mourning for the subculture – punk and DADA and new narrative and rave and noise and theory and technognosis – that kept us alive and worlded until late capitalism got too late even for us. What can we do when even our most frantic, psychedelic maps are stretched so thin? K Allado-McDowell summons a billion-dollar engine for constructing worldviews from raw language-matter – GPT-3, crowning jewel of modern techno-capital, great mystery of modern science – to dream new life-worlds from these fragments shored against our ruins.’ – Peli Grietzer

‘K Allado-McDowell’s Air Age Blueprint is a technoerotic mystery tale, with pagan sacraments and data-veins of living blood. In their journey onwards from intimate, raw childhood pain inflicted by a priest, they encounter intelligences both artificial and organic. The narrative races through text generated by AI alongside the author’s poetic voice. They map their pilgrimage where worlds disappear into other worlds, shapes shift, and the invisible coexists with the visible. Their encounters with an Amazonian healer are the most powerful and honest I have read. The Air Age is the next historical age, replacing and healing the ecological destruction wrought by the Anthropocene. This personal memoir/ontological map/philosophical treatise aims to reconcile language and silence, kundalini and the NSA, lithium springs and coffee, floral stigmas and human stigmas, exorcism and absolution, anarchy and control, ancestors and potentialities, magic and method.’ – Kathelin Gray, writer, producer, curator. Founder of Theatre of All Possibilities, Institute of Ecotechnics, Biosphere 2

‘K Allado-McDowell draws you deeply into the sacred and cosmic jungle of the creative spirit. Intimately biographical and kaleidoscopic in form, Air Age Blueprint uses prescient storytelling to explore the future of plant medicine in a world that is one part human and one part machine. The book masterfully weaves AI-generated text with Allado-McDowell’s poeticism, dissolving binaries into a page-turning meditation that could not be more timely. As the emerging Psychedelic Renaissance unfolds in the West, Air Age Blueprint offers a set and setting for human and non-human alike to integrate the trauma of alienation in ways that are as enlightening as they are playful.’ – Chris Byrnes, member of the Chacruna Institute’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants