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# Are we all neon lights? A conversation with Luis de Miranda
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/are-we-all-neon-lights-conversation-with-luis-de-miranda/
- Published: 2012-02-29T10:02:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T00:53:38.000Z
- Description: An openDemocracy event on Friday, March 2nd 2012 7-9pm at The Hub, Kings Cross
- Author: Open democracy
- Tags: openDemocracy News - archive, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:19, #appended-excerpt

This Friday [Luis de Miranda](https://www.opendemocracy.net/authors/luis-de-miranda) \- novelist, philosopher and cultural commentator - comes to London after visits to Iceland, Kaliningrad and Paris. 

Luis will be presenting the English translations of two of his books, "Is a new life possible?, an essay on Deleuze and the revolution", and the novel "[Who killed the poet](http://app.owni.fr/livre-augmente/index%5Fen.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net)?"

The event, hosted by openDemocracy editor Tony Curzon Price, will take place at the Hub on York Way, King's Cross. [Register for tickets here](http://luisdemiranda.eventbrite.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net) (entry is free).

In [this podcast](https://www.opendemocracy.net/luis-de-miranda-tony-curzon-price/code-in-machine-conversation-with-luis-de-miranda) prefiguring the event, Luis and Tony explore how the digital realm has changed us.

*Are we need-machines, or only made so?*

If you live by the code, will the code destroy you?

*'*[*L'etre ou le Neon*](http://crealisme.hautetfort.com/archive/2012/02/03/l-etre-et-le-neon-suite.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)*", that is the question*

An [openDemocracy event](http://luisdemiranda.eventbrite.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net) on Friday, March 2nd 2012 7-9pm at The Hub, Kings Cross