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"I had a real romance with this book." -- Miranda JulyA highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, "bracingly good ... refreshing and welcome," that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect.From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies, Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, in these essays, Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and sharing.Starting with Hodson's own work experience, which ranges from the mundane to the bizarre -- including modeling and working on a NASA Mars mission -- Hodson expands outward, looking at the ways in which the human will submits, whether in the marketplace or in a relationship.