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The Futures Initiative aims to advance greater equity and innovation in higher education. Housed at the Graduate Center and reaching throughout the CUNY community, the Futures Initiative empowers the next generation of intellectual leaders with bold, public, and engaged teaching and learning. The Futures Initiative fosters greater understanding of the complexities of the higher education landscape by spearheading qualitative and quantitative research in areas such as academic labor practices and reward systems, open-access multimedia publishing, data visualization and interpretation, and institutional change. Through HASTAC@CUNY (a hub of the online network Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), the Futures Initiative extends its collaborative peer-to-peer practices across institutions, disciplines, national boundaries, and economic and social disparities, promoting reinvestment in higher education as a public good.

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MS in Data Vis Event/Book Launch: This Thursday, Oct 20th, 6:30 PM in 5307

  • Posted by Jason Nielsen on October 17, 2022 at 1:32 pm

    Hello all,

    Please join us this Thursday, Oct. 20th, at 6:30 PM in room 5307 for an event co-hosted by the MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization with UnionDocs.

    Exhaustion and Labor in the Digital Age:
    Tung-Hui Hu in conversation with artist Elisa Giardina Papa
    The Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, Room 5307

    Eventbrite registration here.

    Author, poet, and media theorist Tung-Hui Hu in conversation with Elisa Giardina Papa discuss Hu\’s new book, Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection.

    As a modern ailment, digital lethargy is a societal pathology, like earlier forms of acedia, otium, and neurasthenia, but also a disease of performing selfhood under digital capitalism. Tung-Hui Hu makes the argument that digital lethargy helps us turn away from the demand to constantly “be ourselves” and see the potential of quieter, more ordinary forms of survival in the digital age such as collective inaction. (New Books Network)

    He is joined in conversation by Italian artist Elisa Giardina Papa (Venice Biennale, MoMA, Whitney), whose work investigates gender, sexuality, and labor in relationship to neoliberal capitalism and the borders of the global South.

    Proof of COVID vaccination or negative test required.

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