Knowledge Formations Blog

During the 2023-2024 school year, the Knowledge Formations cohort discussed Rosi Braidotti's Posthuman Knowledge  and responded the several questions--What place might there be for humanistic thought going forward? Does AI lead to a post-human or transhuman future? See their blog post responses below.

Readings and Listenings for 2025 Cohort--

• Posthuman Knowledge by Rosi Braidotti. Listen to short monologue by Braidotti here. Listen to Utrecht University (Netherlands) Lecture here.

2024-2025 Writing

All I Do Is Talk by Srabondeya Haldar

The Formation and Sustaining of a School Democracy: Shenzhen Middle School and Its Reform in 2009-2011 by Yichao Lei

AI Has Failed Us by Jiaxu Li

Thoughts of a Romantic on the Intellectual's Vocation in a Posthuman World by Joann Nguyen

Iteration: a Method of Posthuman Knowledge Production by Tate Pan

Archive

During the 2023-2024 school year, the Knowledge Formations cohort met during Slow Thursdays--a weekly informal gathering of students in the Knowledge Formations Certificate--to discuss how academics and their institutions create or construct time experiences for scholars and how scholars participate in the time culture. The following blog posts were written in response to two articles the group discussed--Lees and Overing's Slow Scholarship: the Art of Collaboration and Orr's Slow Knowledge.

• The ATemporality of Slow Knowing by Savannah Sima

• What AI Cannot Do: Reflections on Grounded Theory Methods and the Future of Research by Megan Morrell

• Slow Knowledge and Slow Death in the Academy by Zoe Z. Phillips

• Slow Knowledge as a Collective Struggle by Emma Fromont

• Reflections on Slow Scholarship: Probing the Unknown by Jinze/Lily Zhang

• Slow Scholarship in a Fast Environment by Marc Leroux-Parra

• Beyond the Academic Production Line by Sofie Sogaard

• Slowing Down to Speed up by Teagan Johnson-Moore

• Chat GPT's Enticing Work Speed up by Xiaodi Yang