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Sometimes, interacting with digital platforms, we want to be passive—in those moments of dissociation when we scroll mindlessly rather than connecting with anyone, for example, or when our only response is a shrugging “lol.” Despite encouragement by these platforms to “be yourself,” we want to be anyone but ourselves. Tung-Hui Hu calls this state of exhaustion, disappointment, and listlessness digital lethargy. This condition permeates our lives under digital capitalism, whether we are “users,” who are what they click, or racialized workers in Asia and the Global South. Far from being a state of apathy, however, lethargy may hold the potential for social change.  Hu explores digital lethargy through a series of works by contemporary artists, writers, and performers. These dispatches from the bleeding edge of digital culture include a fictional dystopia where low-wage Mexican workers laugh and emote for white audiences; a group that invites lazy viewers to strap their Fitbits to a swinging metronome, faking fitness and earning a discount on their health insurance premiums; and a memoir of burnout in an Amazon warehouse. These works dwell within the ordinariness and even banality of digital life, redirecting our attention toward moments of thwarted agency, waiting and passing time. 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Resonant, blunt, and sharply intelligent, this is writing that excavates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs history unfolds over and over the same geography, these poems become, as Hu has written, \"practice for the living.\" The book grows out of the poet's interest in how the histories we extract from the land become interlaced with our identity. The book asks, \u003ci\u003eWhere do we come from?\u003c\/i\u003e But also, \u003ci\u003eHow do we make amends?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTung-Hui Hu\u003c\/b\u003e lives in San Francisco, where he writes on film and new media. Previously, as a computer scientist, he worked on Internet architecture. 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The first\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eastronomers tended on hands and knees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethe soil of the universe, smoothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eaway moss, seeding by night.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNow our galaxy has the sixfold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003esymmetry of ornament on the tower of Alhambra,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eshoots curled from stem looping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eheaven and earth together. 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