Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Liner Note 56: The AI Industry Is Dumping its Knowledge Crisis on Humanity

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  Terme di Caracalla, Rome on May 12, 2026  The recent convergence of two kinds of AI news has unnerved a lot of us.   The first kind is mag...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Liner Note 55. In the Empire of AI, Universities Will Reinvest or Die (Part 1)

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Leonora Carrington, Crookhey Hall seen July 17 2026   I want to talk about the relations among AI, university teaching, and university budge...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

How to Make AI Good for the Humanities (Guest Post)

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Banff, Alberta back country on June 5, 2026   by Dennis M. Hogan, Lecturer on History & Literature, Harvard University This is the thir...
Monday, June 15, 2026

A Response to the Report on Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences by One of Its Targets (Guest Post)

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Landing Santa Barbara Airport on Jan 30, 2026     by Charlie Hale, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies,...
Friday, June 12, 2026

We Need to Build Actual Political Support for the Humanities (Guest Post)

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From Tunnel Mtn, Banff on June 6, 2026 By Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst   ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

The Ceiling of Liberalism and the Concept of Capital (guest post)

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by Christopher Nealon , John Dewey Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University This is one of talks from the CHCI panel, "The Humani...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Liner Note 54. The Humanities We Can Build Right Now: Introduction

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Banff, Alberta back country on June 3, 2026   This piece is my introduction to a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

UC Irvine Is Once Again Laying Off Faculty and Staff to Pad Its More than $800 million in Core Reserves (Guest Post)

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  UC Irvine on April 13, 2018      by Trevor Griffey, School of Humanities, UC Irvine Last May, 2025, I had the radicalizing experience of s...
Friday, May 22, 2026

From Community Benefit to Rent-Seeking Scam: UC Irvine's Division of Continuing Education (Guest Post)

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  510 E. Peltason Dr, UC Irvine   by Trevor Griffey, School of Humanities, UC Irvine The idea of continuing education— sometimes also ...