This 🧵is wonderful.
This particular insight echos the qualitative analysis support discussions at the recent #IASSIST2026 conference quite directly, too. Qualitative and humanistic inquiry *requires* this embodied, positional, way of knowing. AI markup & analysis cannot provide it.
Mike Beckstrand
Interestingly, the intuition I felt and spoke from -- that embodied knowing -- is precisely the kind of thing AI, for all of its performative anthropomorphic gesturing at the simulacrum of personhood, can't do. Tech billionaires want us to believe that our embodied/human ways of knowing are useless!
