Remaking II: Long Revolution

Sea of Marmara, Türkiye on October 3, 2025  

In the midst of enormous political pressures, universities also face a steady undertow from "AI" development, which is moving as fast as ever.  At the same time, 2025 has brought new studies, new evidence, and also new distress about the dominance of AI in economic and cultural life, in work and study.

 

For example, a British undergraduate who’s been discussing AI with her cohort told me, “Everyone is asking why am I at university? AI can do my homework and it’s already taken my job. So what are we doing here?”  The AI industry has saturated even its users with this mixture of resignation and dread.