xiaowei @[email protected]

chmod 577 | they/them 🌒 🌕 | #FreeThemAll | on digital sabbatical. writing, thinking & practicing at intersection of tech & care 🎨🍜🔮🌿

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

wow! what an incredible honor to be in such company, with two wonderful writers and their amazing books. congrats y'all! thank you to the selection committee! can't wait to celebrate in nyc 🌆

[National Book Foundation @nationalbook]

The 2023 Science + Literature selected titles are: DYKE (GEOLOGY) by Sabrina Imbler @aznfusion (@BlackLawrence), REAL LIFE by Brandon Taylor @blgtylr (@riverheadbooks / @penguinrandom), and BLOCKCHAIN CHICKEN FARM by Xiaowei Wang @xrw (@FSGOriginals / @MacmillanUSA).

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

this spring i’ve been off 🐦 site as i try to write + graduate. will be continuing to take a break from most social media + many work things, as i deal with a bunch of health issues. long term stress + heart health is real. take care of yourselves ❤️

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

@gemmamilne you need to talk to https://t.co/aJPsmdkaBx https://t.co/TbJbQb8JYt

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

@raquefella thank you! also hi i LOVE Brown Neon!

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

wow! what an incredible honor to be in such company, with two wonderful writers and their amazing books. congrats y'all! thank you to the selection committee! can't wait to celebrate in nyc 🌆

[National Book Foundation @nationalbook]

The 2023 Science + Literature selected titles are: DYKE (GEOLOGY) by Sabrina Imbler @aznfusion (@BlackLawrence), REAL LIFE by Brandon Taylor @blgtylr (@riverheadbooks / @penguinrandom), and BLOCKCHAIN CHICKEN FARM by Xiaowei Wang @xrw (@FSGOriginals / @MacmillanUSA).

[Ben Green @benzevgreen]

Looking for books to read about science and technology? Check out the winners of this year's @nationalbook Science and Literature awards.

Congratulations to @aznfusion @blgtylr @xrw! It was an honor to serve on the selection committee with such an outstanding group.

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

@aschrock thank you!!! back to that chapter 2 draft LOL

[The Cheney Agency @cheneyagency]

Congratulations @xrw, author of @nationalbook Science + Literature Award winner 'Blockchain Chicken Farm'! 👇
https://t.co/LPbEIZA3f8

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

🥰 how did i get so lucky 😘 dorothy for always gassing me up

[Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. ⬇️ @drs.bsky.social @deedottiedot]

The @nationalbook & Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced selected titles for the Science + Literature program! My friend, co-conspirator, and collaborator @xrw received this prestigious award and honor for their extraordinary book, Blockchain Chicken Farm. 👏🥳🙌 CONGRATS!!!

[jackson howard @jaxxonhoward]

Proud to have edited @xrw’s brilliant book. So deserved Xiaowei!!

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

@jaxxonhoward 💕💕

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

@YellzHeard @onlinelorraine_ @logic_magazine yes! https://t.co/nJyTex31o4 please pitch us !

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

sure i guess it's technically "dissertating" but disserting sounds better bc i'm deserting all hope
✌️

[Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernardionysius]

@xrw There's still SO MUCH to write about. For example, Mead and Bateson cybernetic takes on UN, Cold War Policy, Soviet arms race based on interwar colonial anthropology. I write about it in CODE https://t.co/wYlMLALXio & even more threads in work by @oumitoul @paidipaty @rlemov

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

@karlitaliliana 👂👀 definitely following up with you about this

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

2023: seriously evaluating my life and how much busy-ness and overextending myself actually causes harm to others via reactivity, lack of mindfulness + thoughtfulness, etc.

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

sorry in advance if all such writings exist already i am a slow reader!

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

literally this tweet popped into my head again while meditating this morning and +1 to east coast/west coast cybernetics comp analysis. would love to read too intersections of postcolonial moment, cybernetics and race thru the east coast/west coast lens.

[Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernardionysius]

someone should write an essay explaining US West Coast (Bay Area) vs US East Coast (Cambridge, MA) cybernetics. It's sketched in so much work, e.g, by @richardbarbrook, @fturner, @NoraBateson, @HZeavin (on Lily), but I don't think there's a systematic comparative analysis, yet.

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

also east coast cybernetics/postcolonialism/race as related to bretton woods reshuffling of the world

[xiaowei @[email protected] @xrw]

reading across disciplines is fun and revealing and the different terms disciplines use to describe similar things is interesting…also i wanna know why more stem-y disciplines love using soft and hard to distinguish things