If, say, any experimental jazz/ambient outfit are looking for a title for their long-awaited sophomore album, I'd be very happy put this phrase at their disposal, or come up with an equally ponderously pompous alternative.
In some intellectual cultures, you could even say that relatedness was the majority position. For instance, the profound impact of Islamic and Judaic learning on the 12th- and 13th-century reception of Aristotle in Latin relied on a recognition of isomorphic Abrahamic Aristotelianisms.
Augustine is like: oh man if only religion made a person good. But it doesn't. So.
religious literacy — not to be confused with “religion” as such — is a civic good.
What's the next sentence, Adrian. WHAT IS THE NEXT SENTENCE.
Drop your crime fighting Catholics:
I remember when CDs appeared – they all had a standard disclaimer printed on the cover stating that the sound quality was so high fidelity that it could reveal flaws on the original master tapes.
'While the war has been criticised as being in breach of international law, the reckless use of religion to support this war has not.'
Dr Toby Matthiesen (Religion & Theology) on how leaders have used religion to justify their actions in the Middle East
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at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
This made me wonder what ChatGPT means when it uses the pronoun 'I'; this in turn made me wonder what I could possibly mean by the verb 'means' as applied to ChatGPT; which again reminded me of how eerily prescient (as well as, erm, scient) Wittgenstein was in Philosophical Investigations §115.
Two things that can be true simultaneously: Trump is a volatile idiot who does things for no good reason; the Trump administration functions in the interests of a section of US capital.
25 Mar 1235: the canons of #Lincoln unanimously & unexpectedly elect Robert Grossesteste, scientist & theologian as Bishop of #Lincoln #otd ( British Library Harley MS 3860)
If LLMs could talk, we would not understand them (Technology as grammar)
'Market research' is still predicated on the predictive powers of the behavioural science model that for instance completely failed to predict the 2008 recession, is it not? But sure, let's all restructure our study programmes to align with McKinsey horoscopes...
A poem titled "Humanities" made up of a set of 6 haikus The text of the poem reads: Who needs history? Literature? Languages? Art? Philosophy? These can only help you to better understand our humanity. Best to let machines read your books. And write your books. Do your art for you. You will never need to think. Never need to learn. You’ll learn to like it. And when the end comes you’ll have never burdened your soul with any growth. Someone selling this sees profit in destroying your humanity. - John Wyatt Greenlee
Reposting this poem that I wrote last fall because...well...
[waves hands at the world]
I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny.
Insert your own reading/Reading pun here?
Has anyone written a review of the restructuring going on across UK HE? Trying to understand what is common across institutions: large, team-taught courses, centralised workload models, limited to no research time, promotion directly tied to grant income. How many consultancy firms are pushing this?
Oh really? Is that because pandering to the far-right and assuming they will act rationally, reciprocally, & in good faith has always worked in the past, & because there's good evidence that Reform can be trusted? I totally trust this former Tory advisor report published by a right-wing think tank.
He really did say that about you, and in a way that made it clear he meant it. He only taught me for a single semester, but I remember him very fondly. Not sure there's enough Napoleon cake to fix university politics these days, though.
This article is, as they say, bang on the money.
Oh, and I'm a grudging flatterer. When Roald Skarsten (requiescat in pace) at some point announced that the next few weeks of the course would be taught by this exceptional PhD student, I was fully prepared not to believe the hype. I was forced to admit you cleared the high bar he had set, though.
My path took me into digital culture more or less at random. I had a semester to fill before I could apply for hovudfag in medieval history, and Humanistisk informatikk looked like the most interesting delfag option. I loved it, especially the flow charts – a really good course all round.
This is why, when I try to use what I've learnt from Lonergan in my teaching, I almost never use or even mention Lonergan's terminology.
It seemed to go through :-) I was in fact briefly taught by a prodigiously talented young scholar called Jill Walker in Bergen a quarter-century ago, and if that's not proper credentials I don't know what is.
'The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason'. Starmer asks Trump to end the war swiftly *in order to keep prices down*.
"If AI handles the gruntwork, the learning pathway disappears"
along with, potentially, the self-esteem pathway, the deep and lasting reward pathway, the ability to create anything worth someone else's attention pathway (&c. &c.)
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Do you think they'll accept Norwegian academics currently teaching abroad?