With its dissident intelligence and its comprehensive vision of a devastated social sphere, Mariel Franklin's Bonding is the work of an author whose importance already feels assured. Zoning in on a milieu of tech and pharmaceutical workers in 2020s London, Bonding depicts western society as a juggernaut zombie, digitally reconfigured and bereft of a coherent system of values.
Franklin brilliantly conveys the peculiar, posthuman coldness of 21st-century London, a spectral metropolis whose inhabitants dwell in the tight spaces between flows of capital and data. Online life has wrenched human beings from the vestiges of physical relationships into the abstract.
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