Lovely piece. But I found myself looking up at the clouds that have been looming above the situation for years: The mounting irrelevance of literary fiction; that reading has been "self-conscious, hyperaware, restless, and anxiety-driven" for years; the outmoding of style by j…
Who's Who of AI
Ian Bogost
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Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
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Why Reading Is Now Restless theatlantic.com
Can—and Should—Honor Codes Survive in the AI Age? insidehighered.com
Why College Students Are Booing AI theatlantic.com
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Colleges and universities haven't been sites of honor for a long time—if indeed they ever were; "honor" might just have meant the residue of wealth's trappings. It is not becoming clear that honor isn't even an aspirational value, hasn't been for some time, and only achievemen…
I wrote about the AI commencement booing, which I do not think means quite what everyone is assuming it means (and which they appear to be assuming in the easy-thinking way that all thinking, with or without AI, seems to have become). Gift link.
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