Tung-Hui Hu
@tunghui
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poet, media theorist, old man who yells at clouds; author, Digital Lethargy (MIT Press, October 2022)
Joined September 2011
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: https://t.co/SDLcartukz
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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! https://t.co/4hSVSck6Cw
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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). https://t.co/ujry13kCck
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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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On behalf of the young Kenyans whose lives have been ruined because they did the dirty work training the #ChatGPT algorithm, we have filed a petition to @NAssemblyKE to investigate how @OpenAI and @samasource got away with such exploitation and to urgently regulate tech work.
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fellow asians, please stop being so racist and embarrassing. ridding affirmative action won't help you. it just won't. also, getting into your top choice college is a really silly hill to die on. like, please. dream bigger.
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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: https://t.co/g9q8KYFljU Learn more about this issue and buy a copy: https://t.co/qk1rjw1BOg
@amlitjournal #AI
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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: https://t.co/IXK5xqj0fH
time.com
More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union
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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 https://t.co/NlE4QIQXh6. we need all the help we can get ✊
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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 https://t.co/Ik1dvfQ7Df.
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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. https://t.co/5cLybMld5s 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. https://t.co/7zEj8ssrvW
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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! 🎂)
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