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A travelling, curious and irregular podcast, interviewing some of the bravest and most influential writers of our times.
Chi Ta-Wei: On books that keeps teaching us new things
In search of an Author
32 minutes
2 years ago
Chi Ta-Wei: On books that keeps teaching us new things
In his most famous book “The Membranes”, the Taiwanese writer and scholar Chi Ta-wei imagines a future where humans live underwater, gender is more fluid, and mega-companies use artificial intelligence to fight wars.
Published in 1995 almost 30 years has passed. The world has changed since then. His own life has changed. In this interview he express the wish to write a sequel to “The Membranes” that could capture how the world has changed in the meantime, and simultaneously answer the questions his book still leaves him with today.
Join us, when we talk about being distanced from mainstream society, how the pandemic changed his view on writing career, on gay rights in the 90’s Taiwan, the science fiction genre, learning new lessions about his own books, about loneliness, manga and the courage to write.
In search of an Author
A travelling, curious and irregular podcast, interviewing some of the bravest and most influential writers of our times.
