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5 Theses on AI Theft in Education

I have been thinking about the ways that so much of the AI discourse in education spaces these last few years has tried to split teachers and students- to make teachers suspicious of students and to make it so that students are surveilled in all sorts of new ways. I think we need to avoidContinue reading “5 Theses on AI Theft in Education”

Some Reflections on AI and Higher Education, Part 1

There is a fresh round of AI cheating hysteria as a result of a recent NY Magazine article and also another round of recent articles reports on professors using AI to give feedback on assignments sparking outrage from a few students. I think articles likes these are not helpful at all in thinking through theContinue reading “Some Reflections on AI and Higher Education, Part 1”

My Comments from the 4/17/25 Hands Off Higher Ed teach-in on my campus

Thanks to the organizers of this rally on campus today. It is good to be in community with you all. I wish it were under better circumstances. I am teaching my Global Justice course currently. This course is in many ways my historic favorite course to teach- it pulls on all areas that I amContinue reading “My Comments from the 4/17/25 Hands Off Higher Ed teach-in on my campus”

Triumph of the Vectoralists?: on McKenzie Wark’s Capital is Dead, Is This Something Worse? And the present moment.

As we have watched the early days of return to the rightwing presidency of Trump, I cannot help but think about McKenzie Wark’s 2019 Capital is Dead. Is This Something Worse (Verso). I have found the arguments in her book compelling for a while now, but it seems to me we are starting to seeContinue reading “Triumph of the Vectoralists?: on McKenzie Wark’s Capital is Dead, Is This Something Worse? And the present moment.”

Automobility, Authoritarianism and Climate Politics

Much has been written of late about the causes of our new authoritarian moment. In many corners of the academy—including some of my own recent work (here, here, and here)—the consensus is that one of the main causes is the alienation and economic degradation of neoliberal capital. I think this is basically a correct readingContinue reading “Automobility, Authoritarianism and Climate Politics”