Tag: Hannah Arendt

Computational Thinking and AI Research in the Humanities

I spent some time this summer doing an extended study on translation using AI. My basic question was whether it could help me document translation episodes that have functioned as knowledge generation. I know the phenomenon exists, as I have examples from my own work. I shared these with the AI and asked it to… Continue reading Computational Thinking and AI Research in the Humanities

An Unpopular Passion

Earlier this week, I took part in an evening event called “On the Humanities in Dark Times.” There were about eight or nine of us, all humanities faculty at Indiana University. We’d been meeting to discuss the challenges of our moment, and someone suggested we read Hannah Arendt’s “On Humanity in Dark Times.” There was… Continue reading An Unpopular Passion

People Reading Kin

I’ve been very happy to see several positive reviews of Kin in the past few days since its official release. Sarah McEachern’s piece in the LA Review of Books, “Entangled in Family: On Miljenko Jergović’s Kin and Semezdin Mehmedinović’s My Heart,” takes the title and the book’s biggest thematic thread as its main focus, with… Continue reading People Reading Kin