In “The making of critical data center studies,” @melhogan.bsky.social, Dustin Edwards, and I draw together threads across the humanities to critically examine the past, present, and possible futures of studying these weird structures we call data centers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The title is in part inspired by Dolly Parton, and in part inspired by Emily M. Bender!

Thank you to Francis Hunger & co for the beautiful Training the Archive book -- trainingthearchive.ludwigforum.de/en/book/

It was very hard to make a selection of just 4 from 40 applicants. Hoping to build capacity to build future community.

Grad Scholar in Residence — Environmental Media Lab

💥Thrilled to announce our March 2024 EML Grad Scholars in [virtual] Residence: Kailey Walker (Queen’s), Helen Alexandra Hayes (McGill), Tinghao Zhou (UCSB),
and Natalia Orrego (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile). More about their projects soon!!!

environmentalmedialab.com/grad-scholar...

We received many high quality applications that we will have to read through and narrow to 4 residents at the EML.

2 days left to apply! 👇

Grad Scholar in Residence — Environmental Media Lab

👀 Grad students looking for a little extra mentorship....

EML Grad scholar in residence

When: March 2024, online via Zoom
Theme: Extractive Media
Mentors: Théo Lepage-Richer, Susan Cahill and me
Deadline to apply: Dec 15

Details: environmentalmedialab.com/grad-scholar...

Grad students looking for extra mentorship, please consider applying to the EML residency (online, March 2024).

Details at link:

environmentalmedialab.com/grad-scholar...

Deadline to apply: Dec 15 2023

Grad students looking for extra mentorship, please consider applying to the EML residency (online, March 2024).

Details at link:

environmentalmedialab.com/grad-scholar...

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Time, Being and Resonance in the Anthropocene — HELIOTROPE By Trish Morgan A field led down to a lake shore. This day had started out with what had become a regular occurrence - a distressing surge of cortisol from the anxiety of the pandemic and a dizzyin...

New, in Heliotrope:

“Time, Being and Resonance in the Anthropocene” by Trish Morgan

www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/time-b...

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let’s try to rebuild community over here?

#environment #extraction #AI #media #data #tech #nature #infrastructure #science #culture

Time, Being and Resonance in the Anthropocene — HELIOTROPE By Trish Morgan A field led down to a lake shore. This day had started out with what had become a regular occurrence - a distressing surge of cortisol from the anxiety of the pandemic and a dizzyin...

New, in Heliotrope:

“Time, Being and Resonance in the Anthropocene” by Trish Morgan

www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/time-b...

Empathy, with Steven Gonzalez Monserrate | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan a lefty pod about perpetual tech promises

Do not miss this one! 👇👇👇

The Data Fix, Ep. 27:
Empathy, with Steven Gonzalez Monserrate

shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...

URGENT: Oppose an Amendment to Eliminate Funding for the NEH I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

The House is gearing up with a new bill to completely eradicate the NEH budget for FY 2024. Dang it! The National Humanities Alliance has created a form to make it easy to email your congressional rep to stop this bill before it comes to the floor: p2a.co/yqrC42g

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let’s try to rebuild community over here?

#environment #extraction #AI #media #data #tech #nature #infrastructure #science #culture