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We already knew it was bad, but it's actually worse
Would you look at this!? Part I of "Geosemantics: Earthly Memories and Inhuman Becomings in the Global South" is out on ASAPJ!! https://asapjournal.com/tag/geosemantics/
What a great issue edited by Azucena Castro and Estefi Bournot <3 Check it out!
Can't wait for part II (featuring yours truly!)
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
Winner: "Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction" by Lyle Skains
Runner up: "Opera aperta: Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present" by Emanuela Patti
Honorable mention: “Girl Online” by Joanna Walsh
The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award.
Stephanie Strickland
The Maverick Award
Deena Larsen
What a perfect reason to return to posting things here! The ELO is back!
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The Electronic Literature Organization's (ELO) annual conference and media arts festival, “Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change,” will take place in Coimbra, Portugal, July 12-15, 2023, at the São Francisco Convent, the Exploratório-Centro Ciência Viva de Coimbra, and the Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente. Presenting an academic program of panels, round tables, and workshops, as well as an artistic program of exhibitions and performances, ELO 2023 showcases the diversity of contemporary digital literary practices, as well as theoretical reflections on algorithmic society, culture and art. 200 researchers and artists from over forty countries across all continents will gather for ELO 2023.
Keynote addresses: Lori Emerson (University of Colorado at Boulder), Jussi Parikka (Aarhus University), Amira Hanafi (Carolina Coastal University)
More info @ https://ucpages.uc.pt/en/events/overcoming-divides-electronic-literature-and-social-change/
A new study on #planetary 🌍 boundaries takes safety and justice (protecting #vulnerable populations) into account.
Rockström et al. (2023) suggest that we have crossed seven of eight planetary boundaries in terms of both #safety and #justice. ⚖️
The twin #biodiversity and #climate #crises are absolutely a matter of justice. Rich individuals and countries can buy more time and safety. But many of our planetary neighbours cannot.
Explainer 🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01749-9
You could even use Hinton's "realization" as a hook and then pivot to covering the work of and talking with:
Ruha Benjamin
Safiya Noble
Cathy O'Niel
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Brandeis Marshall
Deb Raji
Abeba Birhane
Meredith Whittaker
Karla Ortiz
and of course Timnit Gebru and Meg Mitchell, who were fired by Google over our paper discussing the dangers of large language models (aka, to Hinton "AI").
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Mark C Marino
Dezene Huber 🌻
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)