
Digital Lethargy
Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection
Tung-Hui Hu(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 4. October 2022
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-262-04711-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Digital Lethargy is a book about decentering digital technologies. His definition of the digital is expansive; it includes workers, servers and infrastructures, environments, as well as users. It also includes historical contexts. It's the kind of far-reaching exploration that new media studies (as it's come to be known) is lacking and sorely needs. By exploring digital technology through art, Tung-Hui Hu creates ways of thinking about what it means to live with, use, and be used by digital technology"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
22 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
542 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04711-1 (9780262047111)
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10/2022
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Person
Tung-Hui Hu is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. A former network engineer and a published poet, he is the author of A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press), praised by the New Yorker as “mesmerizing” and by the Guardian as “witty, sharp and theoretically aware.” He was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature in 2022.
Content
Introduction vii
1 Start When It's Too Late 1
2 Wait, Then Give Up 29
3 Laugh Out Loud 63
4 Enter Sleep Mode 95
5 Feel Normal 123
6 Do Nothing Together 147
Postscript: Look Alive 177
Acknowledgments 181
Notes 183
Bibliography 217
Index 237
1 Start When It's Too Late 1
2 Wait, Then Give Up 29
3 Laugh Out Loud 63
4 Enter Sleep Mode 95
5 Feel Normal 123
6 Do Nothing Together 147
Postscript: Look Alive 177
Acknowledgments 181
Notes 183
Bibliography 217
Index 237