I dag bråkar jag om AI, akademiskt skrivande och hantverksskicklighet. Framför allt gör jag ett försök att koppla samman AI-frågan här och nu med en sedan länge existerande andlig robotisering i universitetsvärlden, en robotisering som föregriper de stora språkmodellernas utbredning.

I dag bråkar jag om AI, akademiskt skrivande och hantverksskicklighet. Framför allt gör jag ett försök att koppla samman AI-frågan här och nu med en sedan länge existerande andlig robotisering i universitetsvärlden, en robotisering som föregriper de stora språkmodellernas utbredning.

Humanioras publiceringskulturer skapar huvudvärk för forskningens utvärderare. I Vetenskapsrådets Forskningsbarometer 2025 har området i vissa delar utelämnats. Är humaniora satt på undantag i kunskapsnationen Sverige?

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1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers.
2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show.
3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones.

Everything is becoming television.

I wrote about why that matters.

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE

This week, on 8–10 October, LUCK is organizing The History of Knowledge Conference in Lund. I am delighted to be the host together with my dear colleagues.

The programme can be found here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/wp-content/u...

What was the Swedish ”docent grade”? In a new article in Minerva, @isakhammar.bsky.social and I explore evaluative cultures in the history of the humanities: link.springer.com/article/10.1... This will be part of an upcoming special issue on the history of peer review in the humanities.

‘Satire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all.’

Colin Burrow on satire: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today, August 19, the sixth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge opens. Over the next four days, an international group of 20 Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers will gather in Lund for seminars and discussions.

Thank you, @bjornlundberg.bsky.social, for coordinating this!

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

I wrote about how AI chatbots are pumping out fake quotes, attributed to real people, at scale, and polluting our public disourse with potemkin pontification and made-up appeals to authority. And the AIs are not just misquoting famous people—it happened to me and it could happen to you. Gift link:

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Pleased to be able to present this short piece on Andrew Hui’s original and engaging study of the study—in one of my very favorite journals, at that.

Pleased to be able to present this short piece on Andrew Hui’s original and engaging study of the study—in one of my very favorite journals, at that.

"He illuminates our understanding of books, libraries, and learning in early modernity . . . whilst also directing 'a critical gaze at our own day-to-day practice of scholarly work.'"

New in review, Andreas Tranvik on Andrew Hui's The Study: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/andreas_tran...

New article: literary studies/theatre studies meets the history of knowledge as I make the case for revisiting two canonical works of Scandinavian and European modern drama as representations and critiques of the process of specialization within the modern research university.

New article: literary studies/theatre studies meets the history of knowledge as I make the case for revisiting two canonical works of Scandinavian and European modern drama as representations and critiques of the process of specialization within the modern research university.