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Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection

Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection - Paperback

by Tung-Hui Hu
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tung-Hui HuPublish date:2024-03-05Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262548373ISBN-10:262548372UPC:9780262548373Book Category:Social Science, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Technology Studies, Social Aspects, Media StudiesSize:8.66 x 5.59 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCWJNJKX7D
"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"--
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262548373ISBN-10:262548372UPC:9780262548373Book Category:Social Science, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Technology Studies, Social Aspects, Media StudiesSize:8.66 x 5.59 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCWJNJKX7D
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.
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