#100hardtruths

Some hardtruth poem responses and readings

Long after the 100 days were over and this online primer completed, this project of radical digital media literacy continued, primarily in the form of Fake News Poetry Workshops that used the primer and made new and better things in response. Later still, we let people who had contributed to the primer know about poems that had been written about their thinking from 2017. We asked them to read the poems or respond to what others had written, inspired by their words. By adding these, now years later, to the primer, we track an open trajectory of ideas, learning, sharing, writing and listening. This counters the cyclone of self-absorption and combat that defines cycles of fake news. A tender and respectful hand off -- from person to person, place to place, format to format -- is one tactic we model as a way to break the fakes’ hold on us. We have always needed care for our internet things and our digital ways, but never so much as now.

Contents of this path:

  1. Petra Kuppers reads Our Oral Stories are Our Truth
  2. Geert Lovink reads An egg speaks
  3. Laura Wexler reads Technology is a Weapon
  4. Anne Balsamo responds to Resist How We Are Framed
  5. Hugh Ryan reads Our Oral Stories
  6. Jason De León reads and responds to Mike G's poem "Government Lies Now"
  7. Stephen Winter reads "how do we best make fun of power?"
  8. Poets from Poets of Course Collective respond to hardtruth #86 Resist how we are framed
  9. Poets from Poets of Course Collective respond to hardtruth #52 Address Fears About Disability and Aging
  10. Orr Menirom reads "Choose to be Digitally Productive Rather than Reactive"
  11. Alexandra Hidalgo reads and responds to "Practice Strategic Contemplation"
  12. Alexandra Juhasz and Gavin McCormick read "Practicing Strategic Contemplation"
  13. Alexandra Juhasz introduces the podcast "We Need Gentle Truths for Now" in response to the 100 hard truths
  14. Alex Juhasz responds in Podcast form to "The Real Internet Is a Fake"
  15. Alex Juhasz responds in Podcast form to "Look Deeper into the Migrant Experience"
  16. Alex Juhasz's Podcast "Black Lives Matter: expose the costs and histories of freedom"
  17. Alex Juhasz's Podcast "Black Lives Matter: Digital Participation is Reflexive"
  18. Alex Juhasz responds in Podcast form to "Call the Man of the Year a Liar."
  19. Alex Juhasz's Podcast "Black Lives Matter: Make Manifest the Contingency of the Social
  20. Alex Juhasz's Podcast "Black Lives Matter: A Cultural Change About How We Make Sense of Information Required"
  21. Alex Juhasz responds in Podcast form to “tame and disarm dangerous algorithms"
  22. Alex Juhasz's Podcast "Black Lives Matter: Stay Open to Contradictions and Power #offline"
  23. Alex Juhasz responds in Podcast form to "silicon valley’s entrepreneurial capitalism leaves rubble in its wake"
  24. #82, explain your irrational destruction before the eyes of humanity
  25. Alex Juhasz responds in Podcast form to "choose to be digitally productive rather than reactive"
  26. Alex Juhasz's Podcast "Black Lives Matter: African American History is Real - Peace is the Most Powerful Deterrent of All"
  27. Alex Juhasz responds in Podcast form to "Practice Strategic Contemplation"