CurrAIcular design
Yes, the AI is jammed in there. This is the May 2026 edition. It is interesting to see how our views develop on these matters. I know mine have shifted. Frontier AI’s has created a great deal of cultural instability, particularly in relation to higher education. Gen AI fundamentally undermined how students learn and faculty…
The conscience of AI refusal.
Last month at the Conference for College Composition and Communication, the national conference in the discipline of rhetoric and composition, the following resolution was passed “we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom.” The resolution articulates several concerns that I would…
1000 AI-Generated Plateaus
The question is do we want a “more clear/communicative” version of Deleuze and Guattari? How about ourselves? We wrote Anti-Oedipus together. Since each of us was already multiple, there was always a crowd. We drew on whatever came within range—what was nearest as well as what was farthest. We used pseudonyms to avoid recognition. Why, then, did…
Refusing AI: three Venn diagrams
I’ve been asked to discuss CCCC’s recent resolution on the right to refuse AI. I have already written about it here. From my perspective, this particular resolution is an academic freedom issue within a single discipline and largely focused on one kind of course: first-year composition. As this course is often taught by adjuncts, graduate…
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Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence 