The Ideophone

Gregory Bateson, in Mind and Nature, writes: To liken the mountain to a man and talk of its “humor” or “rage” does little harm.

The Mawu of present-day Akpafu relate in their oral histories that their ancestors lived in the mountains between their current location and the Volta river, in an area currently known as the Togo Plateau.

I was asked to give a workshop on “AI” at a PhD conference (being a professor of “AI, Language Diversity, and Communication Technologies” is asking for trouble, of course).

We’ve revamped the Futures of Language website, now at the futuresoflanguage.org domain, and our Living Library keeps growing.

An electronic machine can carry out mathematical calculations, remember historical facts, play chess and translate books from one language to another.

Over at Futures of Language we’ve started the Futures Library, in which we share key ideas and people that drive the project.

TL;DR It’s annoying to be plagiarised, but what I’ve come to worry about more is how pay-to-publish predatory journals forgo peer review in order to prey on fellow academics and rob them of learning opportunities.

Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons.

During the pandemic I built a gather town co-working space for my team.

Note to readers: some of these ideas made it into a commentary I wrote with Christine Cuskley: Dingemanse, Mark & Cuskley, Christine (in press).