Blog - Sonja Drimmer

When access to books is actually a book ban.

We need peer review for lettuce and for letters.

I recently had an informative and valuable conversation with someone who works in career services.

You do not need an AI policy.

A refrain among the profiteers of automation is that the technology they’re selling will decrease everyone’s workload.

In 1946, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares published a short story called “Del Rigor en la Ciencia” (“On Exactitude in Science”) The story, which you can read in the original magazine context in which it was published on page 53 here, goes as foll…

When I ask the question, "why can't computer vision see the past?"

This morning I woke up to an Amazon box on my doorstep.

No.

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.

The recent piece by Vauhini Vara, “How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kid’s Classrooms” is important reading for the week, and there’s much in it to infuriate.

A year ago, I received a fascinating email from a stranger.

I enjoyed reading this week Neil Kraus’s The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement (2023).

Even if you spend just a small amount of time listening to people who believe that any kind of digital technology (whether that’s “artificial intelligence” or not) is an unquestioned good, you’ll hear a set of terms used to frame the conversation.

Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest product will avail.

When I lived in the UK I watched a lot of Mitchell and Webb.

A short book I’m writing with the somewhat forbidding title, Book History Is Not the History of the Book: Four Essays from Fifteenth-Century England, is founded on the simple premise that the traditional, linear formulas that have structured the field of…

In the December 2023 issue of Modern Language Quarterly, I published an article that is the first to examine the circumstances surrounding and production of a renowned manuscript facsimile of the Rupertsberg Scivias, the most celebrated copy of the vision…