Digital lethargy : dispatches from an age of disconnection / Tung-Hui Hu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hu, Tung-Hui, 1978- author.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--Psychological aspects.

Digital media.

Technology in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Forget You

Enduring the Digital

1 Start When It's Too Late

We Apologize for Any Inconvenience

Becoming Inventory

No Future, for Now

2 Wait, Then Give Up

Self-Playing Art

A Brief History of Disengagement, from Couch Potatoes to Users

Buffering, Clicks, and Bits

3 Laugh Out Loud

(Human) Robots

Canned Laughter

Performance under Working Conditions

4 Enter Sleep Mode

Servers and Servants

Black Boxes, Empty Inside

Registers of Inanimacy

Opacity

5 Feel Normal

"Let us know seeing patterns in chaos explains"

Feeling Proximate

6 Do Nothing Together

Port Signals

Embracing Deadlock

Lethargy as a Group Form

Postscript: Look Alive

Acknowledgments

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Postscript

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-37063-8

OCLC:

1338837052