Reading as Moral Formation
Attentional humility opens us to sympathetic reading—a willingness to receive from the text on the author’s own terms.
The Unlikely Verse of H.P. Lovecraft
by
Ed Simon
Posted on July 10, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos by Jacob Walker, © 2013 jacobwalkerart.com; courtesy of the artist.
H.P. Lovecraft’s verse advances a startlingly modern metaphysic.
The New Verbal Economy
Posted on July 2, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.
Only through regular injections of human writing can the models improve and the machines stay up to date.
Françoise Hardy and the Unanswered Question
Posted on June 25, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: Françoise Hardy in London, 1968; Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Photo.
Au revoir, Françoise Hardy.
Chatbots and the Problems of Life
I don’t like this collapse of trust; I don’t like being in a technological arms race with my students.
AI as Self-Erasure
Liberal public culture is a culture of polite separation.
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