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Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | The New Yorker

1 month ago | newyorker.com | D. Graham Burnett

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring, D. Graham Burnett writes.
A Well Without a Bottom | John Crowley

Sep 24, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | John Crowley |Daniel Mason |D. Graham Burnett |Garret Keizer

Devil or angel, I can’t make up my mind Which one you are I’d like to wake up and find —Blanche Carter, “Devil or Angel,” 19551. The Wool-Sweater ProblemIn the spring of 1968, Cyrena Pondrom, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin, held a series of conversations with the novelist and story writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. The questions were wide-ranging, and so were the answers.
Turning the tide on “human fracking”

Sep 12, 2024 | dailyprincetonian.com | D. Graham Burnett |Peter Schmidt

Welcome back to campus! Got your classes sorted out? It’s time to gear up for another semester of school — a place to teach and learn and play and think and change.
THE EYE AND THE MIND: MARY CHEVES WEST PERKY, IMAGINATIVE PHENOMENOLOGY, AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF REVERSE HALLUCINATION

Jul 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | D. Graham Burnett

I We can imagine things—“see” them inside our minds. This is a very natural and common thing, but if one stops and thinks about it for a moment, it is also a somewhat peculiar—even paradoxical—activity/phenomenon. One can run a few simple introspective experiments that highlight some of the weirdness of the “images” (or whatever they are) inside our heads.
On the Ball | D. Graham Burnett

Jun 27, 2024 | cabinetmagazine.org | D. Graham Burnett

D. Graham Burnett“You won’t believe what just happened. I was standing out there, getting ready to stride toward the ball, when a strange feeling came over me. I was looking right at the football. It was up on the tee. I was standing ten yards away, looking right at it, waiting for the whistle so I could make my approach, and that’s when I got this strange insight. I wish I could describe it, Gary, but it was too wild, too unbelievable. It was too everything, man.
Oath of Office | Richard Selzer & Peter Josyph

Mar 30, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Richard Selzer |John Crowley |D. Graham Burnett

After more than thirty-five years teaching and practicing surgery at Yale University, Richard Selzer has for the last two decades pursued a second career as a writer of fiction and nonfiction, drawing on his long experience in medicine for the body of his work. Among his fifteen books are Mortal Lessons and The Doctor Stories, and two released this year, Knife Song Korea and Letters to a Best Friend, the latter a collection of letters with Peter Josyph.
Though a Bent Glass, Darkly

Feb 13, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | D. Graham Burnett

HASSELT, Belgium — The best spot from which to reckon with This Is Us, an ambitious group exhibition at Z33, is from a slightly precarious perch: leaning boldly out an open window cut into the second-floor gallery wall by Francesca Torzo, the Italian architect who redesigned this striking institution in 2019. Torzo’s little belvedere permits the peeping visitor a view of the narrow atrium below, and the ramp-like path by which one begins the ascent into the show.
Coming Full Circle | D. Graham Burnett

Jul 14, 2023 | cabinetmagazine.org | D. Graham Burnett

Skip navigation Cabinet MagazineKioskBooksActivitiesShopSubscribe Issue 47 / Logistics The Traveling Salesman Problem and the dream of optimality D. Graham BurnettThe problem is easily stated: given a finite number of points, find the shortest connecting path—the shortest line that touches each point once, and closes on itself by returning to the point of departure. What could be more straightforward?