Inframethodology

The university provides a structure for learning.

“No one has yet determined what the body can do.”

One reason to subject students to “exam conditions” is that it offers them an opportunity to experience what they are capable of.

“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.”

“If its object were scientific and philosophical discovery, I do not see why a University should have students.”

[I generally don’t like this kind of stunt.

On Saturday, I wrote about one objection to my “Prompts and Conditions” post that came up during my faculty development course on “Teaching Writing in the Age of AI.”

I’m running a faculty development course this month called “Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI” and it has led to some interesting discussions.

When I talk about academic writing with students at the Danish Design School, I begin by showing them a short clip of Thomas Leslie, Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois, talking about Pier Luigi Nervi’s approach to designing structures.

The journal Human-Machine Communication recently published a paper by David Gunkel called “Prompted by me.