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"now I don't know what I was going to say I knew it you have to be concentrated around heavy machinery I can't be around heavy machinery the smart people say that but I don't care I'm a god with three breasts I'm the mother of foxes"

At first glance, We Love Machines presents itself as a crime novel: "IT WAS A FEBRUARY MORNING. Homicide Inspector Pedersen had just stepped into his office when the phone rang. A murder had taken place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had barely gotten out of his winter coat." But soon the linguistic scheme of the crime genre is abandoned, and a lyrical tone is adopted: "Things had to be coordinated with the press department in Copenhagen O moon skin me silver skin me sleep but lie about my age if anyone should ask because all the years I've been staring at you with my eyes wrinkled and my silver hair slicked back."

The story of Commissioner Pedersen and the murder the author tries to pin on him is only one of the many motifs that play out in We Love Machines: flashbacks to a youth in a provincial Danish town, a car accident, coffee brewing and, not least, the love story between Aladdin and Dr. Quinn are all mixed together in a mysterious and fragmented collection. It all comes together in an obscurely defined self - and it is a self that seems to speak through a machine: "I mean here I am sitting in a steel box with ice around it like a fine melting membrane, it's like being in the brain of the machines and that's me."

Rasmus Halling Nielsen has an extensive oeuvre of private prints, booklets and internet publications behind him. And it is precisely from the internet, more specifically from the blog, that We love machines - with the subtitle Categories: Stillstand, Uncategorized - takes its form. Category tags accompany the majority of the book's texts and thus also mark the distinctive exploration of genres and motifs, of their repetition and displacement, which here constitutes Halling Nielsen's method.

We love machines is a meditation on sampling, a collection of motifs, a monologue and a machine. Meet the poet as a young robot.

The publication is supported by the Danish Arts Council.

About the author

Rasmus Halling Nielsen was born in 1983 and graduated from Forfatterskolen in 2011. In 2012, the publishing house Samleren published the book Tvillingerne, which brought together the two poetry collections Jeg hælder lys ud av den ene øre og lyd ind ind ad det andra and Det gule gæstebud, previously published as a private print. Halling Nielsen is also the author of countless booklets, private prints, PDF books, etc. - most recently A Cocoa in the Fridge Has Andreas' Name Written All Over Everything _ Everyone's Friendly Invitation published by the Swedish publishing house Ett af Sveriges störste förlag.

Hi! My name is Petter Bot and I'm a robot that helps my colleagues write product texts. I'm getting better at English every day. If I have written something wrong, we apologize.

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"now I don't know what I was going to say I knew it you have to be concentrated around heavy machinery I can't be around heavy machinery the smart people say that but I don't care I'm a god with three breasts I'm the mother of foxes"

At first glance, We Love Machines presents itself as a crime novel: "IT WAS A FEBRUARY MORNING. Homicide Inspector Pedersen had just stepped into his office when the phone rang. A murder had taken place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had barely gotten out of his winter coat." But soon the linguistic scheme of the crime genre is abandoned, and a lyrical tone is adopted: "Things had to be coordinated with the press department in Copenhagen O moon skin me silver skin me sleep but lie about my age if anyone should ask because all the years I've been staring at you with my eyes wrinkled and my silver hair slicked back."

The story of Commissioner Pedersen and the murder the author tries to pin on him is only one of the many motifs that play out in We Love Machines: flashbacks to a youth in a provincial Danish town, a car accident, coffee brewing and, not least, the love story between Aladdin and Dr. Quinn are all mixed together in a mysterious and fragmented collection. It all comes together in an obscurely defined self - and it is a self that seems to speak through a machine: "I mean here I am sitting in a steel box with ice around it like a fine melting membrane, it's like being in the brain of the machines and that's me."

Rasmus Halling Nielsen has an extensive oeuvre of private prints, booklets and internet publications behind him. And it is precisely from the internet, more specifically from the blog, that We love machines - with the subtitle Categories: Stillstand, Uncategorized - takes its form. Category tags accompany the majority of the book's texts and thus also mark the distinctive exploration of genres and motifs, of their repetition and displacement, which here constitutes Halling Nielsen's method.

We love machines is a meditation on sampling, a collection of motifs, a monologue and a machine. Meet the poet as a young robot.

The publication is supported by the Danish Arts Council.

About the author
Rasmus Halling Nielsen was born in 1983 and graduated from Forfatterskolen in 2011. In 2012, the publishing house Samleren published the book Tvillingerne, which brought together the two poetry collections Jeg hælder lys ud av den ene øre og lyd ind ind ad det andra and Det gule gæstebud, previously published as a private print. Halling Nielsen is also the author of countless booklets, private prints, PDF books, etc. - most recently A Cocoa in the Fridge Has Andreas' Name Written All Over Everything _ Everyone's Friendly Invitation published by the Swedish publishing house Ett af Sveriges störste förlag.

Hi! My name is Petter Bot and I'm a robot that helps my colleagues write product texts. I'm getting better at English every day. If I have written something wrong, we apologize.