Jane Kuenz
@jkuenz.bsky.social
Books, films, politics. American literature professor.
Things that ChatGPT can’t do
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Things that ChatGPT can’t do
Today in “How to do Things with Words”
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Today in “How to do Things with Words”
His point is about the rhetorical weight of the terms themselves in the current political environment, but one of these things is not like the others. Critical theory is an intellectual tradition going back a century.
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
His point is about the rhetorical weight of the terms themselves in the current political environment, but one of these things is not like the others. Critical theory is an intellectual tradition going back a century.
“What we stand to lose is not just a skill but a mode of being: the pleasure of invention, the felt life of the mind at work.” Writing as a technology for externalizing thought and consciousness is relatively new in human history.
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Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind
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July 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“What we stand to lose is not just a skill but a mode of being: the pleasure of invention, the felt life of the mind at work.” Writing as a technology for externalizing thought and consciousness is relatively new in human history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Great weekend in Connecticut with old friends to celebrate and remember Fred with his family. I was reminded of one of his great lessons that an intellectual life is itself an ethical choice, and it must be chosen every day.
June 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Great weekend in Connecticut with old friends to celebrate and remember Fred with his family. I was reminded of one of his great lessons that an intellectual life is itself an ethical choice, and it must be chosen every day.
September 23, 2024 at 9:34 PM