poet, media theorist, old man who yells at clouds; author, Digital Lethargy (MIT Press, October 2022)
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DIGITAL LETHARGY (@MITPress), about how exhaustion, waiting, and the banality of digital life may paradoxically hold the potential for social change, is finally here! Hope to see you tonight or elsewhere: tunghui.hu/events
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Book announcement: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @gem_neves and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the meaning of convenience. Please read & circulate!
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"s e e ing / as I was / hea t / not / being / was I / weather was I vast I was / another e a rth" (from DRIFT/LOOP, with Paula Matthusen, Olivia Valentine)
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Join us for #DRIFTLOOP, a twenty-four hour performance installation at Wesleyan University’s Olin Memorial Library on November 1–2 (12 noon to 12 noon).
#MetropolisEnsemble #PaulaMatthusen #Singularity #SonicInstallation #ThisIsWesleyan – at Middletown, CT
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Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published.
see, fellow poets, our futures are bright
Silicon Valley training data companies are recruiting a new kind of data worker: poets.
@scale_AI and @AppenGlobal have been on a hiring spree for poets, playwrights and novelists in English, Hindi, Japanese and more. restofworld.org/2023/ai-deve…
"maybe we can read loneliness as a rejection of [digital] systems, and not just a symptom of a larger problem... a political orientation that can lead to new possibilities". Gratitude for putting my book in conversation 🙏 @casadefauxdobe
Pairing @tunghui’s “Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection” (@mitpress, 2022), @Egangoonsquad’s “The Candy House” (@ScribnerBooks, 2022), & @KristenRadtke’s “Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness” (@PantheonBooks, 2021).
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Berlin! Tonight HKW is screening Manthia Diawara's brilliant film AI: AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE (2022), along with other performances, artworks, and discussions this weekend (I'll give a talk, too, Saturday night, on the poetry of deadlock)
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Watch me try to answer the impossible question: how do you make digital capitalism "better"?
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I wrote about two works of AI art by @annaridler (see cover image below) and @stephdink for this fantastic special issue:
"Critical AI: A Field in Formation," a special issue of American Literature (95:2) edited by @ritaraley and @j_s_rhee is now online! Read their introduction for free: ow.ly/5GMU50OFJsN
Learn more about this issue and buy a copy: ow.ly/65hi50OFJsM
@amlitjournal #AI
ALT Cover of "Critical AI: A Field in Formation," a special thematic issue of American Literature (95:2). Cover features an image of a person standing in front of a large grid of backlit images. The background is black and the person is mostly in silhouette. The journal title is in white running vertically up the left-hand side. The issue title is in red text, horizontally at the bottom.
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Can't quite believe I'm writing this: Today, 150 African workers behind ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook voted to unionize at a landmark meeting in Nairobi.
These AI workers are invisible, underpaid, and the backbone of the tech in all our pockets:
time.com/6275995/chatgpt-fac…
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well. @UMich has officially docked all pay but $100 for april from its grad workers, putting many of us in a position of dangerous financial precarity. friends/allies, please consider donating to @geo3550 strike fund at givebutter.com/GEOStrikeFund. we need all the help we can get ✊
No talk, just me playing "Snake" and other ASCII games for 30 mins; is that ok?
Next up on Life in Pixels, we have @tunghui joining us on April 5 at 4pm Eastern Time. We will be talking about his new book "Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from the Age of Disconnection" (@MITPress, 2022). You can register, as usual, at bit.ly/life-in-pixels.
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Reddit user ibreakphotos discovers that Samsung's 'Space Zoom' simply replaces user's moon photos with higher-res images of the moon through a clever testing process.
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This isn't computational photography — it's inserting imagery that simply isn't there.
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This Thursday, don't miss our talk with poet and scholar, Tung-Hui Hu, who will be leading a talk around his new publication, 'Digital Lethargy' - arguing that lethargy may paradoxically hold the potential for social change.
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Thrilled to have a poem in the latest Washington Post Book Club, and grateful to be in the company of stellar @CopperCanyonPrs poets (their new anthology spans 50 years! 🎂)
