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Digital Lethargy by Tung-Hui Hu
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Mar 05, 2024 | ISBN 9780262548373

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“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

Table Of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS…

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

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