Lisa Yin Han
@thehanopticon.bsky.social
Media Scholar in the Wild | Assistant Prof at Pitzer College | Studying oceans, energy, and tech 🍉
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Lisa Yin Han
@thehanopticon.bsky.social
· Apr 30
Deepwater Alchemy is officially on audiobook! Narrated by the incredible @cindykay.bsky.social who brought this book to life in a way I could never have imagined. Thank you @tantoraudio.bsky.social for adapting this! @uminnpress.bsky.social
"One must praxis with oil to understand oil. One must praxis with words to find new ways of circulating meaning. I call this ‘Heliotechnics/Heliotechniques’." Read this piece by Elia Vargas (and others!) in Issue 6.1 of the Journal of Environmental Media: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
Volume 6, Issue 1 | Intellect
Intellect Discover is the platform where Intellect's content lives: Browse publications for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.
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June 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"One must praxis with oil to understand oil. One must praxis with words to find new ways of circulating meaning. I call this ‘Heliotechnics/Heliotechniques’." Read this piece by Elia Vargas (and others!) in Issue 6.1 of the Journal of Environmental Media: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
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My commentary 'AI is Trash' is now out with the Journal of Environmental Media! doi.org/10.1386/jem_... It's an attempt to be constructively pessimistic about the state of genAI, its political economy, and its environmental impacts. I curse! I grump!
AI is trash | Intellect
This commentary discusses the rise of generative machine learning tools (so-called artificial intelligence [AI]) and their joint informational and environmental harms. It takes the argumentative stanc...
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June 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My commentary 'AI is Trash' is now out with the Journal of Environmental Media! doi.org/10.1386/jem_... It's an attempt to be constructively pessimistic about the state of genAI, its political economy, and its environmental impacts. I curse! I grump!
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Even when asked specifically only about environmental harm, the output ends with a reorientation away from that topic ("But there are a lot of efforts to stop this!") and a suggestion for the user to investigate those proposed solutions.
May 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Even when asked specifically only about environmental harm, the output ends with a reorientation away from that topic ("But there are a lot of efforts to stop this!") and a suggestion for the user to investigate those proposed solutions.
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Prompt: What are the environmental dangers of generative AI?
May 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Prompt: What are the environmental dangers of generative AI?
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Prompt: What is the long term climate impact on AI?
May 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Prompt: What is the long term climate impact on AI?
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Is anyone researching the way that ChatGPT ends its responses with a recommendation of what to ask it next? Are there systematic studies of this? Because, anecdotally, it seems to function very similarly to search and content recommendation systems that direct the user's inquiry in particular ways.
May 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Is anyone researching the way that ChatGPT ends its responses with a recommendation of what to ask it next? Are there systematic studies of this? Because, anecdotally, it seems to function very similarly to search and content recommendation systems that direct the user's inquiry in particular ways.
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Fleck Prize winner for 2025!
Lisa Yin Han’s Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Sea Floor
4sonline.org/2025_lisa_yi...
Lisa Yin Han’s Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Sea Floor
4sonline.org/2025_lisa_yi...
May 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Fleck Prize winner for 2025!
Lisa Yin Han’s Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Sea Floor
4sonline.org/2025_lisa_yi...
Lisa Yin Han’s Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Sea Floor
4sonline.org/2025_lisa_yi...
Everyday ecofascism is next on my list!
New books!
-Global Heartland: Cultivating the American Century on the Midwestern Farm / Peter Simons
🎧: Podcast ep w/ Michael Lansing: z.umn.edu/ep104
-Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature / Alexander Menrisky
(podcast ep out soon!)
-Global Heartland: Cultivating the American Century on the Midwestern Farm / Peter Simons
🎧: Podcast ep w/ Michael Lansing: z.umn.edu/ep104
-Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature / Alexander Menrisky
(podcast ep out soon!)
May 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Everyday ecofascism is next on my list!
Deepwater Alchemy is officially on audiobook! Narrated by the incredible @cindykay.bsky.social who brought this book to life in a way I could never have imagined. Thank you @tantoraudio.bsky.social for adapting this! @uminnpress.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Deepwater Alchemy is officially on audiobook! Narrated by the incredible @cindykay.bsky.social who brought this book to life in a way I could never have imagined. Thank you @tantoraudio.bsky.social for adapting this! @uminnpress.bsky.social
I got a chance to be back in conversation with Jonathan Bate for his Blue Humanities podcast! Episode is now live here: open.spotify.com/episode/7D4T... @uminnpress.bsky.social
Deepwater Alchemy
Blue Humanities · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I got a chance to be back in conversation with Jonathan Bate for his Blue Humanities podcast! Episode is now live here: open.spotify.com/episode/7D4T... @uminnpress.bsky.social
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🎧 "Infrastructure is invisible until it breaks." A thoughtful conversation between Lisa Yin Han ( @thehanopticon.bsky.social ) and Gloria Chan-Sook Kim, thinking elementally on microbes, ocean, catastrophic deferral, scalar mediation, resolution, the plume, + more. share.transistor.fm/s/f3b95b9a
Thinking elementally, from the microbe to the vast seafloor | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 102
"Infrastructure is invisible until it breaks." How do we visualize something that cannot be physically seen? What limitations do existing knowledge structures impose that reverberate through planetar...
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April 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🎧 "Infrastructure is invisible until it breaks." A thoughtful conversation between Lisa Yin Han ( @thehanopticon.bsky.social ) and Gloria Chan-Sook Kim, thinking elementally on microbes, ocean, catastrophic deferral, scalar mediation, resolution, the plume, + more. share.transistor.fm/s/f3b95b9a
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This is true in Indiana, too.
I cannot afford ONE academic database for my LMC with my entire annual budget, let alone the dozens provided by the state library.
I cannot afford ONE academic database for my LMC with my entire annual budget, let alone the dozens provided by the state library.
Lest you think this is just impacting public libraries: school libraries are going to suffer greatly if this funding disappears. State level funded databases aren't something school libraries can replace at a local level.
April 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is true in Indiana, too.
I cannot afford ONE academic database for my LMC with my entire annual budget, let alone the dozens provided by the state library.
I cannot afford ONE academic database for my LMC with my entire annual budget, let alone the dozens provided by the state library.
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Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, we warmly welcome environmental humanities authors Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley for a first-of-its-kind special episode about their newly published books. We hope you enjoy!📚 edgeeffects.net/sarah-dimick...
Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, & Ben Stanley Discuss Their New Titles - Edge Effects
Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley discuss their new books and critical topics in the environmental humanities.
edgeeffects.net
March 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, we warmly welcome environmental humanities authors Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley for a first-of-its-kind special episode about their newly published books. We hope you enjoy!📚 edgeeffects.net/sarah-dimick...
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Listening to @melhogan.bsky.social’s Data Fix podcast and bouncing in my seat listening to @thehanopticon.bsky.social talking about the sea floor. This is the specific book I need!! (Ordered it before I even finished listening.)
March 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Listening to @melhogan.bsky.social’s Data Fix podcast and bouncing in my seat listening to @thehanopticon.bsky.social talking about the sea floor. This is the specific book I need!! (Ordered it before I even finished listening.)
Best part of my week was playing Citizen Sleeper 2. What an amazing game and story! 5 stars highly recommend
March 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Best part of my week was playing Citizen Sleeper 2. What an amazing game and story! 5 stars highly recommend
Cant wait to talk oceans and extraction at McGill today for the Art History and Communication Studies series! Come see me this afternoon: www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/events/...
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February 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Cant wait to talk oceans and extraction at McGill today for the Art History and Communication Studies series! Come see me this afternoon: www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/events/...
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Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field?
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
environmentalhumanities.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field?
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
The call for this year’s digital methods summer school is out! I did this during grad school and found it so helpful to explore and think deeply about methodologies for examining digital power. Highly recommend! The focus is on social media and AI this year www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...
February 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The call for this year’s digital methods summer school is out! I did this during grad school and found it so helpful to explore and think deeply about methodologies for examining digital power. Highly recommend! The focus is on social media and AI this year www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...
Tomorrow at UCLA! Elizabeth Deloughrey and I will be having a conversation about our favorite topic: the blue humanities!
February 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Tomorrow at UCLA! Elizabeth Deloughrey and I will be having a conversation about our favorite topic: the blue humanities!
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Probably time to share my film/media history starter pack again. A treasure trove of great folks in here! (Part II linked below...always adding more) go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5 #history #mediahistory #filmhistory #histbookchat #booksky
February 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Probably time to share my film/media history starter pack again. A treasure trove of great folks in here! (Part II linked below...always adding more) go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5 #history #mediahistory #filmhistory #histbookchat #booksky
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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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The state of publishing dominating the academic ecosystem
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing
The largest science publishing corporations, including Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Sage, are key partners for the oil, gas, and coal industries insofar as they distribute scie...
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu
January 31, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The state of publishing dominating the academic ecosystem
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
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Oh my god is it really not Friday or February yet
January 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Oh my god is it really not Friday or February yet
A delightful sight! Can’t wait to dig in
January 31, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A delightful sight! Can’t wait to dig in
Media and STS friends! There's just 3 days left to submit your paper abstracts to our #4S2025 Open panel, Reverberation and/as Mediation. Submit by Feb 2 here: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... Feel free to contact me or @mojojojosef.bsky.social for questions!
January 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Media and STS friends! There's just 3 days left to submit your paper abstracts to our #4S2025 Open panel, Reverberation and/as Mediation. Submit by Feb 2 here: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... Feel free to contact me or @mojojojosef.bsky.social for questions!