Tung-Hui Hu

poet, media theorist, old man who yells at clouds; author, Digital Lethargy (MIT Press, October 2022)

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

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

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

"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)

[Wesleyan Library @Wesleyan_Lib]

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

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

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.

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

see, fellow poets, our futures are bright

[Andrew Deck @decka227]

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. https://t.co/dV59fcpWDH

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

"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

[Public Books @PublicBooks]

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

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

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)

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

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.

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

Watch me try to answer the impossible question: how do you make digital capitalism "better"?

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

@brimblecombe @annaridler @stephdink thanks for reading it! I started out thinking about AI and ended up unexpectedly interested in botany

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

I wrote about two works of AI art by @annaridler (see cover image below) and @stephdink for this fantastic special issue:

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

"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

[Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo]

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

[olivia stowell @oliviastowell]

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 ✊

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

No talk, just me playing "Snake" and other ASCII games for 30 mins; is that ok?

[Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhd]

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.

[Halide + Kino aka halideapp.bsky.social @halidecamera]

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.

[The Photographers' Gallery @TPGallery]

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