Audrey Tang: commitment

7 Oct 2020 Conversations with Tyler Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy

“Yes, I think so, because when I was 20 years old, I would wake up, log in to the Perl IRC channel — that’s Internet Relay Chat — and type “river run,” and then a bot will just paste a random paragraph, literally a random paragraph from Finnegans Wake, which would begin my day’s work.”

— Audrey Tang

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Speaker: Audrey Tang
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Claim type: commitment
Recorded: 7 Oct 2020
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler
Episode: Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy

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…Has it influenced your approach to tech at all? Yes, I think so, because when I was 20 years old, I would wake up, log in to the Perl IRC channel — that’s Internet Relay Chat — and type “river run,” and then a bot will just paste a random paragraph, literally a random paragraph from Finnegans Wake, which would begin my day’s work. That’s social, too. Everybody in the chat channel sees it. I’m sure that it has influenced our work on Perl, which is full with haiku and poetry and things like that. Have you written poems in Perl?…

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