Ready for my new classes this teaching block. Until Christmas, I will be teaching courses on political philosophy for business ethics, political theory and cybersecurity, and Frankfurt School thought.

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Oh! Tintoretto in Paris till Jan. One of the most aesthetically intense experiences of my life was my one visit to Venice years ago when, knowing nothing about him, I went in 5 days from finding his paintings clumsy, incomprehensible to being unable to turn away from them www.ft.com/content/f90f...

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I remember it so clearly. Around 10 years ago, we sat around a table and agreed what to cut from field trip travel, careful and responsible decisions, trains not planes. Now we just lit a huge bonfire of planetary resources under every aspect of our work.

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I don’t need a LLM to summarise anything thank you. A summary is always already political - “here is the important thing to pay attention to”. What a week it has been for LLM madness. And thank goodness for Katherine Hayles ❤️

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As geographers, we were absolutely doing the right thing when we acknowledged the problems of field trips amid a climate crisis. But now our employers are forcefully embedding LLMs into all aspects of our work. Why don’t they think of the tokenized planetary cost like the aviation cost?

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