In this review, Whitson looks into the book Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media by Aberlardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka for insight into how the aesthetics of earth can become visible through media mapping.
Kiera Obbard reviews Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram, a new collection of essays on the often maligned genre of Instapoetry.
With a first-hand experience of observing and participating in the inception of the internet and early machine writing, Steve Tomasula reflects on his and Joseph Tabbi's interconnected history within a new form of the sublime. Using Tabbi's collected works as a framework, Tomasula explores the posthuman experience of narrative architecture.
In this essay, Jon Ippolito discusses the meaning of "friction" in the context of higher education, via an exploration of what friction entails, what varieties are beneficial for students, and what aren't. In doing so, he creates the starting point for conversation in "Friction and Education: The Discussion".
In this conversation, provoked by Jon Ippolito's essay "Does Education Really Require the F-Word?", researcher-educators Jon Ippolito, Annette Vee, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, and Marc Watkins discuss the role of friction in higher education after the dawn of generative AI.
In this provocation, Jon Ippolito questions what human capabilities AI extends and what capabilities it removes. In doing so, he charts the evolution of human writing processes alongside technology while speculating on what future human writing practices will look like.
Using Jon Ippolito's essay "Writing As Thinking—By Proxy" as a vehicle for discussion, researcher-educators Anna Mills, Mark C. Marino, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Annette Vee, Marc Watkins and Ippolito discuss the impact of AI's emergence in higher education and the many strategies they're employing to foster healthy writing practice with and without AI.
Daniel Johannes Rosnes' playful review of Kyle Booten's Gyms sees Rosnes at the mercy of an AI writing companion, who aides his reflection on the exercises Booten provides and the ways in which they reveal the potentialities and pitfalls of large language models.
