-
Ambient Intelligence
One day last week, after an intense and sometimes emotional time sorting through files and papers and deciding what to keep, what to shred, and what to send to my archived papers, I decided to take a while and visit an art installation at the Park Avenue Armory. “Clinamen,” by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. I…
-
Active Learning in the Age of AI
It’s Not Just for the Birds Have you ever wondered what those chirpy zebra finches are saying to one another? Now we know. Thanks to the diligent and creative research by Dr. Julie Elie, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies interspecies communication, we humans can understand what other zebra finches have…
-
Democracy in 3-D Glasses
In the stunning mural by Polish multidisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga, “Make Tofu Not War” (2018), exhibited currently at the Prada Foundation in Milan, one sees one set of images if one looks with the naked eye and something else if one looks with 3-D glasses. I took this selfie in 3-D glasses. Wearing these ironic…
-
AI Is Not Neutral
Photo Credit: Stanford Professor Yejin Choi, Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation On June 4, 2026, the Wall Street Journal announced that“Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk.” Further, WSJ reports that the “$1 trillion startup warns artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention.” The…
-
CBR: New Digital Worlds. Chapter 5: Rethinking the Human in Digital Humanities.
Roopika Risam. New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. Northwestern University Press. 2019. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 5: Rethinking the Human in Digital Humanities. Review by: Meha Gupta, PhD candidate, English, CUNY Graduate Center. Reading Risam After AI: Decolonial Foundations for a Digital Humanist Present The relevance of Roopika Risam’s invocation for…
-
CBR: Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Chapter 8: Revaluating Early Modern Princesses’ Letters as a Source for Cultural History and Corpus Linguistics by Vera Fasshauer.
Barbara Bordalejo and Roopika Risam (editors). Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Arc Humanities Press. 2019. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 8: Revaluating Early Modern Princesses’ Letters as a Source for Cultural History and Corpus Linguistics by Vera Fasshauer. Review by: Jessica Corona, Master Student, Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio. Introduction: In recent years,…
-
CBR: Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Chapter 2: Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and Digital Humanities, by Roopika Risam
Barbara Bordalejo and Roopika Risam (editors). Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Arc Humanities Press. 2019. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 2: Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and Digital Humanities, by Roopika Risam. Review by: Elisa Castro, Master Student, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio. Have decades of digital studies enhanced, altered, or muted…
-
CBR: The AI Con. Chapter 7: Do You Believe in Hope After Hype?
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. The AI Con. How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. Harper Books. 2025. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 7: Do You Believe in Hope After Hype? Review by: Rachael Mulvihill, PhD Candidate in Literary & Cultural Studies , Carnegie Mellon University. The AI hype bubble hasn’t…
-
CBR: The AI Con. Chapter 1: The Hype of Thinking Machines
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. The AI Con. How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. Harper Books. 2025. Chapter Reviewed: Introduction: The Hype of Thinking Machines. Review by: Alp Eren Pirli, PhD Candidate in English, Indiana University Bloomington The title of Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna’s 2025 book,…
-
AI Has No Sense of Humor (But some TikTok Comics Do!)
If you are finding yourself increasingly bored with or exasperated by the AI hype and the AI hysteria, you might want to check out social media satirist “Husk” who, on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram posts wickedly amusing satires of AI.* His typical set up is to ask a ChatGPT chatbot some seemingly harmless question that…