the phenomenology of ai
Me: There is a well-known composition essay titled “the phenomenology of error” about how instructors are primed to see error in student work. I think an analogous phenomenology of AI could be written now. Of course student work looks like AI generated student essays. The whole point is to teach students to produce predictable prose…
slow your role: academic chronopolitics
Cutting to the chase, en media res, this is Virilio dromology recast through the predictive+enactive (or anticipatory) intelligence of contemporary AI-temporized culture. Jameson wrote about the shock of speed as an affect of Modernity. We get the “need for speed” from neoliberalism and accerlerationism. So nothing new about speed itself. Anticipatory intelligence however is more…
Ready, set… get ready for readiness: pedagogy, Anticipatory Intelligence and misery
I would frame our higher education situation as follows. We are readying students for future challenges but leaving them unprepared for a future worth inhabiting. This applies broadly but especially with our response to AI. This is not a failure of effort or intention but rather a structural consequence of how attention–>anticipation has come to…
we have never been writers (the patient zero of academic dishonesty)
This understanding is as familiar as Plato. We didn’t need to wait for Foucault or Barthes or Derrida to recognize the category error in conflating writing with thinking. Until the printing press, human hands (and thus human thought) participated in acts of inscription. Writing required human cognition to move the pen (or whatever) across the…
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Alex Reid, professor of digital rhetoric, Media & Artificial Intelligence 