This can be filed alongside 'high agency person'. AI is driving corporate capitalism to a sub-Sartrean ideal of autonomy, as the residue that is left over once all behaviour has been automated.
Or, to put it another way, I have encountered some quite astonishing lack of basic insight into the HE crisis from wealthy academics in their 60s and 70s
LLMs: "we'll stop saying 'quietly' and 'liminal' if you lot stop saying 'iconic'"
Aside from the decline of reading, the fact that people are apparently trading in actual news reporting (including footage, interviews, data, vox pops, fact-checking etc) for varieties of Guy Emotes & Gesticulates at Microphone, seems to also be cause for cultural pessimism
How long before Google employs a Chief Phenomenologist
We need to reinvent the 'Academic Male' twitter account from 2012, only this time sending emails from his second home in Tuscany asking why his younger colleagues are so nervous. Surely they have tenure?
can't wait for Paranoid Liberalism to be a thing
We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
Will Davies
Will Davies
Will Davies
Will Davies
Will Davies
Will Davies
Will Davies
Will Davies
The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
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The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
