{"product_id":"wishipedia-9781771261722","title":"Wishipedia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pier Giorgio Di Cicco\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mansfield Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mansfield Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1982 Pier Giorgio Di Cicco entered a monastery and didn't break publishing silence for fifteen years. In 2004 he was elected Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto and went on to become a renowned speaker on urban design and the future of cities. In 2017 he moved into the oldest haunted church rectory in Canada, from where he mapped a cyber-cosmology for our times with wizardly humor, holographic abandon and a litany of blessings across dimensions. The former monk became the ghost of St. Columbkille\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in this book are catalogues and inventories of wish fulfillment, and a fascinating \"virtual game\" in which the \"player\" becomes master of an imagination not his own, where past and present and future find a trajectory that makes faster-than-light travel look old-fashioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWishipedia\u003c\/i\u003e is the public code to the private space that is both mythic and stunningly contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mansfield Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889741742231,"sku":"9781771261722","price":1194.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781771261722.webp?v=1781177568","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wishipedia-9781771261722","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}