Digital media scholars Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shah, authors of Really Fake* (University of Minnesota and meson presses, 2021), discuss story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity, to explore socio-technological and politico-aesthetic emergences in a world where information overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing.

The two will also discuss Shah’s upcoming book, Overload, Creep, Excess (Institute for Network Cultures, 2022), which offers an analytic framework – or at least opening up of curious pathways – to make sense of the state of the internet(s) today, and Juhasz’s forthcoming My Phone Lies to Me (punctum press, 2022)*, which suggests that poetry is one way to counter dominant and dominating internet modes and values, to fight the corrupt ways of being and knowing that use digital media to create, fuel, and weaponize fake news.

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY and affiliated faculty with the ITP program at the Graduate Center. Her current work is on COVID and AIDS, fake news, online feminist pedagogy, and other more radical uses of digital media.

Dr. Nishant Shah is a feminist, humanist, and technologist studying digital technologies, narrative practices for collective action, and cultural politics of Artificial Intelligence. Shah was the cofounder of The Centre for Internet & Society, India. He is currently an endowed professor of aesthetics and cultures of technology at ArtEZ University  of the Arts and Radboud University in the Netherlands, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and a Knowledge Partner with the Digital Asia Hub, Hong Kong.