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Press release from Columbia’s Committee on the AI in the Core Curriculum, which I co-chaired: In April, the working group shared recommendations that reaffirmed the Core’s commitment to human intelligence and human-centered pedagogy — but that also carefu…

As AI tools become a part of the research process, disclosure becomes a matter of academic integrity.

Translated from Chinese.

A list of things I might have said in my 2024 Contemporary Civilization Class.

Read the full op-ed in the Columbia Spectator.

When asked about the dangers of commoditising the outputs caused by the drive for efficiency in the creative process with AI, Dennis says: “Your body needs to go through the experience of exercise to derive the benefits.

As appeared in L’Espresso November 8, 2024: “Automi autori dai dizionari a ChatGpt,” pages 80–82.

Il Sole 24 Ore is the leading Italian financial newspaper of record, owned by Confindustria, the Italian employers’ federation.

Letter to the Editor Issues in Science and Technology Volume XL.3 Spring 2024 In her thoughtful essay, “How Generative AI Endangers Cultural Narratives” (Issues, Winter 2024), Jill Walker Rettberg writes about the potential loss of a beloved Norwegian chi…

[Close-up on a coarse, middle-aged woman, resident of Belgorod, smoking a cigarette in her kitchen.]

Season 6 Ep. 13 [Off-screen] NATURE WILL KICK YOUR ASS!

Can we survive, if Ukraine does not?

“Everything must be questioned.

I wrote the following document for the undergraduate concentration in Comparative Literature at Harvard University a few years ago.

This spring (before the George Floyd protests, but after Breonna Taylor and so many others) in my Contemporary Civilization class we ended the semester by reading W.

I was recently asked to contribute a chapter on historical materialism for the Cambridge Companion to Literature in the Digital Age, edited by the inimitable1 Adam Hammond.

I am always inspired by Ted Underwood’s work and his research notes are no exception.

This is a short post addressing some of the appropriate security protocols that could be followed when publishing leaked information, in order to better protect the identity of a leaker.

How is a tractor like a writing desk?

An introduction to an article accepted to New Literary History in summer of 2017.

The boy Alexander whittled a piece of wood in the kitchen.

Should programming languages count for the graduate-level foreign language requirement in a Humanities department?

What are the minimal requirements to build an archive?

What is the difference between critical and conspiratorial thought?

The university paper recently asked me to comment on the University of Chicago’s free speech principles, which “affirm the University’s tolerance for all expressions of speech.”1 This is an issue that deeply affects my thoughts, research, and teaching pra…

By Dennis Tenen.

A few notes after spending a some time battling with Pandoc, YAML, and the Xelatex typesetting engine: Theoretically it is easier to specify fontsize in the YAML block instead of in the command line.

The search for “Reddit community” on Google News returns no fewer than 12,900 results.

A citation network diagram before layout.

It is my intention here to convince you that links are bad.

Sarah Laskow from Columbia Journalism Review stopped by the lab last week and wrote a great piece about piracyLab.

Access might never be totally open or fully free, but there are such things as more open access and freer culture.

My first deposit to the university’s Academic Commons: The Studio at Butler Library, as we imagine it, will host mix of scheduled events loosely related to digital humanities, along with providing an unstructured, community-driven workspace for all those…

The problem with Wordpress as a content management system is that for the most part, my content does not live inside Wordpress.

That special time of the year is here!

An interesting report written by the Human Rights Watch relevant to my Beyond the Human course.

The students in my xpCrit course have asked me to start a wiki to share expertise related to tools and methodologies in digital humanities.

Yet we shall reach really fruitful and luminous generalizations about vital phenomena only in so far as we ourselves experiment and, in hospitals, amphitheaters, or laboratories, stir the fetid or throbbing ground of life.

Existent things consist mostly of nonbeing with a little bit of being thrown in.

“Pragmatism is a rejection of hierarchical structure itself, of the stabilizing (kingly) forces of structure, which would always stand safely outside structure—outside the game, but ruling the game.

Dear Book Publishers, Please stop making me pay twice for your products.

I changed my name sometime in 2008, in part to celebrate my partner’s heritage and in part to signify a new start.

A republican assemblyman from San Diego wants to force Google to blur Street View images of potential terrorist targets, like schools and hospitals.

Here is something to think about: the contract you make with Google in using (most of) their services.