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Society for Cultural Anthropology retweeted
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Society for Cultural Anthropology retweeted
In a few years, I think we will look back and realize that learning is like physical fitness in its simplicity and resistance to technology: in order to improve, you need to consistently do hard things without shortcuts.
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People are letting AI write their wedding vows, love letters, parents’ obituaries, kids’ birthday cards… Such a powerful loss to self and community when people relinquish the truth of their own words and voices to become epiphenomenal vessels for computers to talk to each other.
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People have all sorts of opinions regarding universities, but when it comes down to it, I and many like myself have now 20+ years of experience working at them (me: Canada+USA). One truism: the working conditions of the professoriate are the learning conditions of the students.
Society for Cultural Anthropology retweeted
🚨Have you heard? The new issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now!
Featuring eleven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from evasion & repair to belonging across African, Asian & European geographies.
Find all the articles ⤵️ Open Access as always!
ALT The cover of the new issue of Cultural Anthropology, includes the journal title on a light blue background and then below it, a black and white photo taken in Taranto’s cemetery in 2019 (photograph by issue author Jasmine Clotilde Pisapia). It depicts an older couple with their backs to the camera, looking on as a worker in a small backhoe digs up a small grave.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
Society for Cultural Anthropology retweeted
there’s a reason humanities scholars don’t publish a paper every five minutes that somehow instantly gets 80000 cites like you can in some fields
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Every year there is a new university graduation zeitgeist. This year it's commencement speakers getting booed vehemently when mentioning AI in a positive light.
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I’m not doomscrolling it’s called doing a digital ethnography,
Society for Cultural Anthropology retweeted
there’s an assumption in academia that you’ll organize your whole life around what will make you attractive to a hiring committee—& that you’ll do so at any cost, & that you’ll tolerate any discomfort, for even the barest chance at a nonexistent job—& it’s gross and unsustainable
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I’ve never quite understood how I’ll get “left behind” if I don’t use AI. I’m perfectly capable of writing, researching, and thinking all on my own. What does it do that will leave me behind?
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my wokest pedagogical take [and i have many!] is that the Humanities Course most necessary and implementable for STEM students [esp those going 2 industry] is an ethnographic methods course. learning to watch, discuss, explain, and present how You and Others Do Things
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I personally don't use citations. If you don't recognise the allusion, that's on you
Society for Cultural Anthropology retweeted
Please read the work you are citing. This is not a hard, inconvenient, or impossible ask.
Reading each other's work is how we grow in academia. Read, review, debate, etc., but please just read.
Society for Cultural Anthropology retweeted
I never want to hear econ or math folks talk smack about the 'soft' sciences like anthropology. Your professors are literally out there defining the scientific method as the citation of research without reading it.
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A major reason that it didn’t make sense to use AI to write an essay about a substantive topic is that until you write the essay you don’t actually know what you want to say or what you think. You think you do, but it is the writing itself that actually gets the thinking done.