

Fri, Mar 06
|Brooke Lanier Fine Art
Low-Stakes Book Club: Liking What You See
We will be discussing the short story "Liking What You See: A Documentary" by Ted Chiang. Scroll down for a link to download the pdf.
Time & Location
Mar 06, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Brooke Lanier Fine Art, 820 S 4th St, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA
About the event
This story from the collection "Stories of Your Life and Others" takes the form of documentary interviews of people discussing whether or not to make calliagnosia mandatory for students enrolled at a fictional university. The technology alters peoples' ability to perceive beauty in human faces in an effort to eradicate lookism- superior treatment of beautiful people. Parties interviewed include a prospective student raised with calliagnosia, her parents who sent her to a school where everyone has that augmentation, a neurologist, people at the college arguing both sides of the debate, and other people.