Author: chad wellmon
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The Will is Not Enough
This fall, the former ur-blogger Andrew Sullivan wrote an article in New York Magazine titled “I Used to Be a Human Being.” There, Sullivan referenced Alan Jacobs’ article “Habits of Mind in an Age of Distraction,” from our summer 2016 issue, and…
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The Future of Search
Today, to search is to google. Specifically, it is to use Google’s search engine to find something on the Web. As for those other searches that once helped define the human condition—for meaning, love, purpose, or God—those have, in little…
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Knowledge Machines: University to Search Engine
For critics on the political left and right, the contemporary and increasingly data-driven university has become a bureaucratic behemoth, a rational system that expunges the personal and particular in favor of the quantifiable and universal. Consider here in the UK,…
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The Visibility of Knowledge
I am happy to announce that a new collaboration with Andrew Piper’s .txtLab and Mohamed Cheriet’s Synrchomedia Lab has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The project is called “The Visibility of Knowledge: The Computational Study of Scientific Illustration…
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