- Published: 9 April 2024
- ISBN: 9780262548373
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $49.99
Digital Lethargy
Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection
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- Published: 9 April 2024
- ISBN: 9780262548373
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $49.99
“The acclaimed professor outlines his concept of digital lethargy — a state of exhaustion and listlessness under digital capitalism — through a collection of works by contemporary artists.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“In Digital Lethargy, the academic and poet Tung-Hui Hu quotes from the scholar Anne Anlin Cheng when discussing the German writer Heike Geissler's novel, Seasonal Associate, set in an Amazon sorting facility: “How do we take seriously the life of a subject who lives as an object?” Hu's point, essentially, is to ask how art can best approach the flattening, depersonalizing effects of the internet. It's a good question, one that I'm unsure if many novels have yet answered.”
—The Baffler