Hoyt Long

Hoyt Long

Hoyt Long is associate professor of Japanese literature at the University of Chicago, where he codirects the Textual Optics Lab and teaches in media history and cultural analytics. His most recent book is The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age (Columbia University Press, 2021).

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We Want Our Catastrophe TV

“We can ask why Squid Game was so popular. But really we should be asking how any show becomes a global success at all.”

Can Algorithmic Bias Teach Us about Race?

Machines learned racism from humans. Perhaps humans can now learn about that racism from the very machines they taught.