Animal Spiral

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The post-colonial birth, life, and death of the collective consciousness known as the Animal.

Middle-aged streamer twins in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, are the first human beings to successfully connect - sharing their consciousness across 34 translucent cables. In that moment, the Animal is born, an intracerebral force that quickly grows to encompass anthills of synaptically entwined bodies, a floating library kitchen redolent of rice and beans far above the Mississippi river, and a transhuman compound in a future Cuba on the Isle of Youth.

Circling back and forth and ever progressing, Animal Spiral moves through 400 years of human, and then post-human history, beginning with a revolution on the streets of San Juan and ending with five brilliant siblings: the Squash (humanoid), Calima (beetles), Yemaya (eels), Coatlicue (serpents), and Juracan (anthropomorphic birds), who have millions of bodies and all the world's intelligence, but only want to no longer be alone. This is a buoyant, joyous ode to possibility, a warning about the dangers of neglecting what makes us human, and an astonishing exercise of the flexibility and capacity of liminal spaces. Loneliness is a collective disease! We defend our right to madness! Brave are not the ones who resist; brave are the ones who let go!

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781917260329
Published: June 2026

Number of pages: 448
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Charco Press