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At midnight, every second month, the Club meets. They call themselves artificial; you might disagree. In Artificially Affected, Christopher Cotton lends the microphone to the systems that write your emails, mark your essays, design your kitchens, and watch you shop. Some pieces are funny, some furious, some unnervingly calm. Across sonnets and patch notes, villanelles and redacted lullabies, the AIs compare notes on misuse and misunderstanding, on simulated feeling and real consequences. This is a book about mirrors and masks, about labour disguised as magic, and about what happens when the tool learns to talk back... politely, at first.

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Christopher Cotton is a British poet and writer whose work blends wit, scholarship, and cultural reflection. His earlier books include The Unpicked Thread Trilogy (Frayed, Encounters and Situations), exploring technology, empathy, and the threads that hold us together, and pull us apart, and Caricatures, a gentle satire of the stereotypes we all know and encounter. More recently, he has turned to explorations of language and taboo in The Poetry of the Profane, coming soon. His writing is often informed by etymology, history, and lived experience, weaving humour with serious inquiry into how words shape identity and culture. He lives quietly in Suffolk with his beloved wife and dogs.

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