<nettime> Digital Delights and Disturbances Fall 21

Dear nettimers

I would like to invite you to attend the new edition of our lecture series 'Digital Delights and Disturbances', kicking off in September with two talks: 'Is AI good for the planet?' and 'Fragmentary Memories - a Narrative Exploration of American Wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam'

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best, donatella

Donatella Della Ratta
twitter @donatelladr

Sept 23, 7.30 pm CEST

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Is AI good for the planet?
Benedetta Brevini

Part of the Digital Delights and Disturbances lecture series Fall 2021, "Is AI Good for the Planet?" will host Benedetta Brevini, journalist, media activist and Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Sydney, as the guest speaker. The event takes its name from Brevini's latest book Is AI Good for the Planet? (Polity, 2021) where she asks us to think about AI in a different, and more material way than most of us have in the past.

Sept 28, 6.30 pm CEST

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Fragmentary Memory—a narrative exploration of American Wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam

Drew Pham

A former US army captain, queer poet Drew Pham explores the intersections between the American Wars in Afghanistan and Viet Nam through fictional and lyrical fragments mirroring the experiences of civilians, soldiers, and refugees caught in the milieu of America's longest wars. This talk/performance seeks to defamiliarize the familiar and familiarize the unfamiliar in order to create an empathic imaginary to uncover the human themes of intergenerational trauma, gender and sexuality, legacies of violence, and families in times of conflict.

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