From the author of Remainer and Satin Island (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), a high tech odyssey through CGI studios, wind tunnels and drone Research centers, where the limits of healing, entertaining, revelation and destruction are continually being transformed. A kaleidoscopic exploration of motion, how the forces that compel and impel us continues to defy capture and understanding. The historical starting point: Lillian Gilbreth, first investigator and architect of time and motion studies, spurred in part by the conundrum of how to raise twelve children (remember
Cheaper By the Dozen, the memoir she wrote with her husband). The fictional or mythic starting point (one of many): Anthony Garnett's insomnia, and the inevitable sheepcounting he experienced after visiting a sheep farm, the images of sheep he'd observed prompting in his mind a schematic tracking their movements, unpredictable yet governed by a general drive or aim, the location of one animal at a given moment, the corresponding location of another at the same moment, each linked by lines of transit, switchbacks and detours, lines themselves dictated by the larger flow of the collective mass, as well as operative strings of need, fear, rivalry, yearning, linking Individuals randomly to each other. The originating seed of the company he founds, Pantaray, PLC., whose name was inspired by a fragment of pre-Socratic Heraclitus, who famously also noted that you cannot step into the same river twice, the first axiom of motion studies.
The Making of Incarnation explores the myriad facets of the intersection of technology and the human, an intersection that continues to recreate the possibility of what we are able to imagine.
