new essay on the neocolonial, neoliberal sociocultural project we’re calling ‘ai’ and jesuit higher ed

another installment in my ongoing commentary and critique of the neocolonial, neoliberal sociocultural project we’re calling ‘ai’ is out from jesuit higher education. it’s a meditation and reflection on the importance of context prior to any question of functionality regarding generative software in education, more on the institutional rather than the classroom level.

the piece was in final stages of publication when magnifica humanitas dropped, so i was only able to gesture toward it in quick revision, but mh is based strongly in prior work coming out of the vatican, so i wouldn’t have changed much anyhow.

hope all is well for all of you!

another essay on generative software, based in observations “from the field” and looking toward how to move forward together

here’s my latest, now up at inside higher ed, on the ways in which irreality is mediating between (interfering with?) students and instructors in higher ed.

how do we scrutinize reality together (the university’s general institutional mission) when we aren’t seeing it?

i’m realizing more and more that the humanist tradition of western education needs to constantly be clarifying how statistical probability software isn’t going to magically form knowledgeable, grounded, savvy humans and in fact throws them off the scent. if neoliberal productivity for its own sake is the goal, sure; but i can’t agree with that as a desirable end for education of any sort.