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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

On the value of the #humanities: "Humanist inquiry of the sort we pursue, with its situated knowledges and its cultural attunements and its fine-grained attentiveness to the shifting complexity of ethical and moral life, can give restorative heft to even the most tarnished of these ideals. You might need them." -- Peter Coviello, head of the #English department at Univesity of Illinois Chicago Circle

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#Education
#University

n+1 · Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter CovielloSo if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, accomplished at nothing less than the scale of the institution itself—all of it operating inside financial margins so narrow, at such absurdly low cost relative to its peers, you can hardly believe it.
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Nonilex

The chair of the National Endowment for the #Humanities, Shelly C. Lowe, left her position on Wednesday “at the direction of President #Trump,” the agency said.

Lowe, a scholar of higher education & the first #NativeAmerican to lead the agency, was nominated by former President Joseph R. #Biden Jr. in Oct 2021 & confirmed by the Senate in Feb 2022. Michael McDonald, the agency’s general council, was named its acting chairman on Wednesday.

#NEH #WhiteSupremacy #USpol
nytimes.com/2025/03/12/arts/na

Shelly C. Lowe stepped down as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities on Wednesday.
The New York Times · Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities Leaves at Trump’s ‘Direction’By Jennifer Schuessler
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Gary Hall

Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press's MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series:

Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall.

Available open access - to be downloaded for free:

openhumanitiespress.org/books/

If we want a socially and environmentally just future, do we need a radical new theory of change – or to radically change theory? Unsettling received ideas of the author and the book, originality and copyright, real and artificial intelligence, Masked Media tests ‘non-modernist-liberal’ modes of creating and sharing knowledge enabled by media technologies, from writing through to GenAI. Thinking outside the black box that renders Euro-Western knowledge-making practices invisible – keeping the human ontologically separate from the nonhuman – it shows there’s no such thing as the human, the nonhuman already being in(the)human.

#newmedia #academicpublishing #experimentalwriting #humanities
#philosophy #ai #openai #genai

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"Rep. 1 "...such a competition is rigged from the beginning, since it is organized by an #oligarch who controls the govt. He is fit. You are not. That is natural."
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"Rep. 1. “...yes, the point is to make the #government entirely dysfunctional for the rest of you. But, right, we will keep the govt functional for us..."

Rep. 4 "Of course we lie. Lying is good. Let #science & the #humanities compete with other opinions in a free market of ideas."
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Text from article(edited for length): Rep. 1 "Yes, you are correct, such a competition is rigged from the beginning, since it is organized by an oligarch who controls the government. He is fit. You are not. That is natural." Rep. 2. "...National security is an inappropriate concern for government. And when the CIA stops international cybercrime against Americans, that's inappropriate interference in the internet. Russian and Chinese attacks on Americans are free speech, part of nature." Rep. 3. "That's also why we have to cut Medicaid... And Social Security just supports the unfit. That's what we mean by fraud, by the way." Rep. 4 "...the constant droughts, fires, and floods will bring out the best in competitive Americans." "Rep. 1. “And so yes, the point is to make the government entirely dysfunctional for the rest of you. But, right, we will keep the government functional for us. You will keep paying taxes and we will treat you as drones." Rep. 2. "...We'll all be facing a more bracing and authentic reality without cities and with radiation." Rep. 3 "The bodies than can survive all of this are the only ones we want around. Yes, to be sure, the likely survivors are the people who are already oligarchs today. They dream a dream of immortality. It can only be proven by the mortality of all the rest. That's natural." Rep. 4 "Of course we lie. Lying is good. Let science and the humanities compete with other opinions in a free market of ideas.
#Satire#Musk#USA
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Weizenbaum-Institut

Call for Papers: Workshop "Critical Theory of the Computational" (Berlin, October 16-17, 2025)

This workshop aims to use critical theories to explore how digital and computational systems are influencing societal changes and how these systems are also part of broader global transformations.

📌 Submit your abstract by April 30, 2025

More: weizenbaum-institut.de/news/de

Weizenbaum InstitutCall for Papers: Critical Theory of the ComputationalThis international workshop aims to use critical theories in order to explore how digital and computational systems are influencing societal changes and how these systems are also part of broader global transformations. It will take place in Berlin in October 2025. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2025.
#research#cfp#philosophy
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Fedi.Garden 🌱

Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server for humanities scholars and practitioners around the world:

:Fediverse: hcommons.social

This server has additional features including much longer post lengths and local server-only post visibility options.

You can find out more about hcommons.social at hcommons.social/about or contact the admin @hello

Hometown hosted on hcommons.socialhcommons.socialhcommons.social is a microblogging network supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.
#FeaturedServer#Humanities#Academic
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Images of Bergen
The academic chair game.

When the new #Bergen University Library for #Humanities opened in 1961, the students took the chairs they had in the old study halls of the University Museum and moved to the new study halls. First come, first served!

Photo by Olav Espevoll, via University of Bergen University Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bs-fol-00645-047.html
#Norway #Norge #NorskPix #Students #Historical #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Black and white photo of a stair leading up to double doors, and students, mainly men, carrying a chair each into the building.
#blackandwhitephotography
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James Endres Howell

Just moved to Fosstodon! #introduction

Dad and husband in #Pennsylvania. I teach #biochemistry, #molecularbiology, and #microbiology (and #humanities) in #highered.

Daily #Emacs user since the late 80s, #GNU #Linux on and off since the 90s. Strictly #FreeSoftware since 2010s. #Debian, #GrapheneOS, #OrgMode and #Emacs for teaching and research.

#Japanese #日本語, #francais, y #espanol roto. #DnD and #books. Love #camping #hiking #walking #cycling #coding #elisp

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Megan Lynch (she/her)

I'm still sussing out what the field of Plant Humanities *is*, but as someone who works in plant science but in an interdisciplinary way, I'm interested in finding out.

"Plant Lives - Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South
Monday, 2 June 2025 - 12:00pm

WiSER is proud to announce a new online seminar series

The seminar series will run on Mondays from 4-5pm SAST. Papers will be sent a week beforehand. "

wiser.wits.ac.za/event/plant-l

"Critical Plant Humanities Conversations from the Global South feb-june 2025 A seminar series convened by Isabel Homeyr & Sarah Nuttall" Logo for WISER - Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witswatersrand
#Humanities#Botany#GlobalSouth
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Jürgen Hubert

Looking at how #LLM are promoted by their fans, I've come to the conclusion:

Pretty much everyone from a #STEM background - myself definitely included! - owes the #Humanities a huge apology.

I mean, I get it. When I was a young student of physics, it was easy for me to sneer at philosophy students and whatnot. After all, _we_ dealt with hard, measurable facts, while _those_ people dealt with some weird thought constructs that had no relevancy to the real world - right?

But this is the end result - #TechBro culture and a vast portion of our entire economy using digital bullshit generators instead of critical thinking, and using this to lead us into a fascist future where either Truth or Facts have become meaningless.

Mea culpa.

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