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The letter A and the pronoun I

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , on August 6, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I’m organizing a two-day academic retreat focusing on “Generative AI, Techno-authoritarianism, and the Future of the Critical Humanities.” It will take place in late September, partly under the auspices of Simon Fraser University’s Joanne Brown Symposium series on violence and its alternatives. We’re stretching the mandate of that series in that we aren’t focusing directly […]

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Bluffing to please: ChatGPT’s sorry strategy

Posted in Media ecology, Science & society, tagged , , , on February 19, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I’m sharing an exchange between my son and ChatGPT, wherein he is asking the AI about whether bison ever lived in the northeastern United States. When he hones in on some confusing information, ChatGPT begins to respond in a way that seems calculated to please, and when he tells it its information is incorrect, ChatGPT […]

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Symbiocene talk, AI, & other things

Posted in Anthropocene, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , on June 27, 2024 | 1 Comment »

This blog has been a bit quiet as I transition to my new position as Woodsworth Chair in Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University. I’ll be sharing more about that soon. In the meantime, I can share links to a few recent talks. Last year’s Free Cultural Spaces symposium “Towards the Symbiocene,” held in Amsterdam’s Club […]

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The Qanization of the world

Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 18, 2020 | 3 Comments »

As I’ve been preparing to cover QAnon in my media course (and trying to keep up with it, since it’s really been ramping up ahead of the election), I’ve seriously begun to think of it is a work of evil genius. Let me explain why. For starters, it’s worth reminding ourselves that QAnon was designated […]

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