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Digital Lethargy: Book Talk with Tung-Hui Hu

The listlessness experienced under digital capitalism, explored through works by contemporary artists, writers, and performers.Poet and digital media scholar Tung-Hui Hu discusses his latest release Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection. Hu describes digital lethargy as the exhaustion, disappointment, and listlessness experienced under digital capitalism. This condition, Hu argues, permeates our lives under digital capitalism, whether we are “users,” who are what they click, or racialized workers in Asia and the Global South. Far from being a state of apathy, however, lethargy may hold the potential for social change.Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection by Tung-Hui…

2022 Digital Humanities Showcase

The broad, interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities includes computationally engaged research and pedagogy, digital publication, and humanistic interrogation of technology. Featuring five faculty-led projects as well as ten graduate student projects, this showcase collectively represents the impressive range of current DH research at NYU. Featuring Seed Grant Recipients: Ahmed Ansari, Elaine Ayers, Tega Brain, Andrew Spielman, Maria Cabrera Arus, Lauren Kehoe, Jacob Remes, and Ellen Noonan DH Graduate Student Fellows: Hadas Binyamini, Nuala Caomhanach, Lynn Chenel, Fatma Deniz, Ayami Hatanaka, Antonio Musto, Allegra Rosenberg, Helen Stec, Oscar Stuhler, Ryan Zohar Moderated by Jojo Karlin, Digital Scholarship Specialist, Digital Scholarship Services, NYU Libraries This…

Visual Lawfare

Mayaan Amir (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) on lawfare and evidential imagery at the service of military objectives One of the central factors shaping today’s armed conflicts is what is known as lawfare—“the use of law as a weapon of war” (Dunlap, 2001: 2). This presentation zeroes in on the role visual material plays in lawfare. Visual lawfare involves diverse kinds of still images and video footage which are deployed to justify (or condemn) a broad spectrum of military operations. These include pre- and post-war justifications, which affect the function of visual material in the constant tug-of-war over meaning. Drawing…