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The paper that was never written
Every published text (academic paper, story, novel, poem) is built on another text that is buried underneath, an abandoned text. And this is useless in a way, but it’s a sacrifice we must make; papers cannot be created without destroying in the process ideas, abandoning possible paths. The paper that never sees the light of…
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Recognizing LLM-generated ideas
[Image by Circe Denyer from source] Not text, ideas. As peer reviewer, I have been flooded in the last two years with requests to review papers in philosophy which I suspect bear a LLM-heavy influence in their design and interpretation. But how to show this to the journal editors who send these papers out for…
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Writing and reading practices revisited
In my KU Leuven PhD thesis (revised and shortened, available as a book here, On the Possibility of a Digital University: Thinking and mediatic displacement at the university), I wrote about the discovery of writing and reading techniques in the Middle Ages as a revolution that changed how people think and use tools for that.…