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Bookmark Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The Atlantic
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia. Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with…

December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The Atlantic
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia. Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge
In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over…

February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments
Bookmark Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed,…
There is no doubt that Sci-Hub, the infamous—and, according to a U.S. court, illegal—online repository of pirated research papers, is enormously popular. (See Science’s investigation last year of who is downloading…

July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you…
Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10…

January 28 2017, 4:33am | Comments
Bookmark The Materiality of Research: ‘On the Materiality of Writing in Academia or…
In this feature essay, Ninna Meier reflects on the materiality of the writing – and re-writing – process in academic research.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark Going beyond the “ecological turn” in the humanities | ENTITLE blog
Talk about the Anthropocene often has a tendency to rely on apolitical and colonialist assumptions. But the turn to ecology in the humanities will require acknowledging—and, more importantly, supporting—those peoples who…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark The Anthropocene: A Reading List – Jason M. Kelly
In preparation for teaching a course entitled, “History, the Environment, and the Global Anthropocene,” I thought that it might be a good idea to compile an interdisciplinary reading list on the Anthropocene.…

January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Anthropocene: A Reading List — Jason M. Kelly
In preparation for teaching a course entitled, “History, the Environment, and the Global Anthropocene,” I thought that it might be a good idea to compile an interdisciplinary reading list on the Anthropocene. The list that I decided to create is not…

December 25 2015, 9:43am | Comments
Bookmark Why Is Academic Writing So Academic? : The New Yorker
A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for…

February 24 2014, 6:24pm | Comments
Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine
The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Absolutely-Too-Much - The Brooklyn Rail
Contemporary art is an easy thing to hate. All the meaningless hype, the identikit openings in cities that blur into one long, banal, Beck’s beer fuelled anxiety dream from which there…

August 29 2012, 2:19am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments
Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"
“Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments
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April 9 2012, 4:24am | Comments
Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments
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Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments
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How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments
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The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments
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E-books Can't Burn

February 16 2012, 3:50pm | Comments
Bookmark On Science Transfer
“Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments
Bookmark Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)
Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…

August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments
Bookmark Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…
For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments
Bookmark Humanities in the Digital Age
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of…

March 6 2011, 12:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly…

December 20 2010, 9:47am | Comments
Bookmark The Shadow Scholar
In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments
Bookmark The Anthropology of Hackers
A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

October 1 2010, 9:08am | Comments
Bookmark What Are Books Good For?
I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the defensive.…

September 30 2010, 4:23pm | Comments
Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments
Bookmark The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated…

August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments
Bookmark Plato's stave: academic cracks philosopher's musical code
It may sound like the plot of a Dan Brown novel, but an academic at the University of Manchester claims to have cracked a mathematical and musical code in the works…

July 20 2010, 2:45am | Comments

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