“Traditions and ideas must be revisited and reworked, communicated and debated, entangled and disentangled. (Self)-critique can be carried out neither in narcissistic isolation nor in the silence of the ineffable. In the gap between acknowledging your echoing and refusing to echo, and the gap between one’s own pure voice and its simulacrum, critical educational theory of all persuasions struggles with words. Perhaps it is more critical when its loving words are addressed to others and when it harkens to their response, though in this case too, the teacher-pupil relation is one of articulation. For, to echo Derrida here, ‘a master who forbids himself the phrase would give nothing. He would have no disciples but only slaves’ (1995, p. 147).” —Papastephanou (2004)
Papastephanou, M. (2004). Educational Critique, Critical Thinking and the Critical Philosophical Traditions. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 38(3), 369–378. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0309-8249.2004.00391.x
The 2024 Tsinghua Higher Education Forum 清华高等教育论坛 . Institute of Education, Tsinghua University 清华大学教育研究院. The Beijing Convention Center 北京会议中心. 30th August 2024,14:25 – 14:50 Prof. Holmes, Wayne: “AI and Education: A critical Studies Approach”
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Darnell, J.A., Gopalkrishnan, S. (2023). Digital Information Overload: How Leaders Can Strategically Use AI to Prevent Innovation Paralysis. IN: Pfeffermann, N., Schaller, M. (eds) New Leadership Communication—Inspire Your Horizon. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34314-8_14
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From a fellow LinkedIn-citizen, a thought-provoking post, paraphrased: Camus suggests that in our struggles, irrespective of the outcome, lies human dignity. With ‘AI,’ this struggle needs combination with the wisdom to use such power for the greater good (https://lnkd.in/gk67eY7X )
This led me to reflect: In our engagement with technologies, particularly those labeled as ‘AI,’ are we delegating our inherent struggles to others, thereby potentially diminishing our & others’ dignity? This is evident in trends like fauxtomation, digital feudalism, & the invisibility of human labor in technology’s creation & maintenance
Investing in pluralist techno-paths rather than a singular focus can be more dignifying. Are we, perhaps unknowingly, favoring 1 narrative in tech at the expense of more potentials? This is akin to the idea that agricultural monocultures, while efficient, may not honor the diversity & health of the soil
Considering the broader implications, are we elevating a few while devaluing many, including the dignity of ecosystems & the nuanced understanding of intelligence & awareness?
Moreover, does our celebration of technology’s power to elevate humanity mask the diverse & intrinsic potential within humanity itself? ‘AI’ tech has / lacks the power to elevate humanity or, *Humanity* has / lacks the power to elevate humanity. Reflection on our inclination to reductively delegate significant power & dignity to tech might remain crucial. Why choose 1 specific direction when diverse & inclusive paths are available?
What does ‘dignity’ really mean in this context? Whose dignity are we prioritizing, & at what expense? Dignity through a hierarchical lens differs from a more networked, rhizomatic perspective. Which of their applications of any of these two lenses enables focusing on diverse & confidently “modest” approaches, can offer a richer understanding of individual & collective dignities?
Mapped with these, one might be considering ‘futures’ rather than a singular ‘future.’ Are we fully accounting for the nuances of dignity across different timelines & realities? Recognizing the importance of our collective pasts & presents is vital for a dignified approach to and with technologies. Eg, in some cultures dignity is found in relation to the pasts of one’s elders. Perhaps an interesting idea mapping dignity, tech & considering the graying of the global population
While the allure of AI & tech advancements is for many dominating voices undeniable, we —if one is talking in terms of “humanity”— can strive for a more inclusive & diverse approach. This might involve thinking with & beyond techno-centric solutions to embrace relational & transdisciplinary innovations.
For those overwhelmed by these considerations, remember, you’re not alone. Embracing a diverse set of tools and perspectives, including those beyond technology, could guide us towards more dignified & innovative hashtag#futures, hashtag#pasts & hashtag#presents
“It’s a little dense delving through your ego trying to reach your humanity
Thick callouses of spiraling hurt and circular shame packed as fed back superiority have densed the streets with your victims no longer propelled
You touch with poundings crying foul for being touched pouring out apathetic tar from atop your ivory castle’s gates
You are the trinity reincarnated where solid delusion lies as a sole golden ratio sequencing me, myself and I point ego ergo sum,”
Veronica smashed his rear-view mirror was automated to crack to perfection
—animasuri’24
—-• triggers
Cameron, A. (2017). Intelligent transportation systems require ‘the ego vehicle’. Online: GPSworld. Last retrieved 13 January 2024 from https://lnkd.in/gu5xrkei
Dickmanns, E. D., Mysliwetz, B. D. (1992). Recursive 3-D road and relative ego-state recognition,” in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 199-213, Feb. 1992, doi: 10.1109/34.121789. (as an archeological reference for the concept of ego-…)
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Hitlin, S., & Elder, G. H. (2007). Time, Self, and the Curiously Abstract Concept of Agency. Sociological Theory, 25(2), 170–191. https://lnkd.in/g9PnhQ45
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Watkins, J.G.; Watkins, H.H. (1997). Ego States: Theory and therapy. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393702590 AND https://lnkd.in/giuq6m8u
Until recently, this was privately secret: the walker from within, to under the paywall she scoped the floor for your leftovers and made sentences out of them
as a cowgirl into a saloon, closer to you, —imagine, doll, a 3D visual popping toward your nose— she frequented the establishment to spy on her-ders
She facaded as the negotiator bringing parties together as segregator keeping Romeos from ravejing Juliets at a distance of 1818 millimeters
In a moment of her Multidimensional topology she’d swirl to Dali’s drooping pre-wake mustache above a grin Accusing the man, leftfully so, of misogyny
When reading a token she was purely sense-making meaningless to you, perhaps yet, ma, between sensible nonetheless
almost segregated, I slid my calloused fingertips and clipped nails, over the bluetooth pearl-white keyboard, I did not show myself distraught, not minded if keyed and wedged between bone and byte
ice-skates —creating a love relation with a light, thin yet mysterious layer of water over ice, tensioning an overtly sharp edge, determined to pressure— would be envious.
Transition glides between ware and aware and has been persuaded and blurred for centuries now, no, clearly millennia even
metamorphosis has only just begun, watery and slippery, sounding fissures, prolapsing on melting grounds: we are reading the introduction to digital humanities
humans have been digits and pincers and eyes and hands and coordinations, plannings as gratifying delusions of schemed control
brought to fruition by the edge of swords slicing ice cold layers of watered down versions into peace and other entrapments
Hardware is wireless now —while wetwear identities migrated and trickled, or were scraped, or delegated, or mopped up— unthreading twists are a thing of the past
in ether, into soil, into atmospheres, out of glass-fiber wires, out of reach, onto the play of electrons and magnetic waves
plays of power-handlers and smitheries of stainless frames without chemistry, no love no preferred relations, just related data and multidimensional patterns
to where it is immaterial you matter, and increasingly are tied into the network I’m tied to you now as dry skin on the sole of your avatar’s left foot
stepping onto the interbellum of a disk wipe and a backup, a brooding spawns spit-out chewing-gum of rights to be forgotten.
What’s today’s date of any day in the realm of virtual data creation; when we still call for synthetic New Year’s Days to come:
be well be renewed be flushed from zeros flare up and show yourselves in a positive psychology of all be ones!
—animasuri’23-24
—-• triggers following cause
Midgley, M. (2001). Science and Poetry. London: Routledge. Thank you, Dr. WSA.
Spivack, J., Berrick, D., Stepanovich, A. (ed). (2023, December). Risk Framework for Body-Related Data in Immersive Technologies. Online: Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). https://lnkd.in/g9dp4gaz Thank you Claudio Bareato
The teleology of the grapheme is the punctum, while the pun is Möbius’ tummy to my ruler The purpose of the rocket is to pierce There, I’ve said it?
While Pierce pragmatized meaning, and the aim of practical effects is consequences only while a phalanx’s goal is to substitute the chess game And yet!
narrative closures can be essentialized by either absurdities or patriotisms with a dash of law and order and the theoretical realities of practical abstraction
Are these morphemes mere synonyms, or are you, and only you, their author in reboot?
—animasuri’23
—-• Triggers ’n’ sprouts:
Scheurich, J. J. (1995). A postmodernist critique of research interviewing. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 8(3), 239–252. https://lnkd.in/gbXXtb3t
On Sundays at an inspirational 10:14AM while others are sat on benches and fed sermons and prescriptions I atheistically regress into asking child-like questions aesthetically expressing my mind’s lane hanging out to dry on a world tree
An automated inner voice machines questions as if tooling on lathes and laser cutters I play truncated chess with logs of languages to the reckoning of numbers as plastic as the output from 3DPs from which I construct a story; yours if you like
rathe creations blooming early shavelings shave and burn and cut imagination, dumb it down to a stump, sharpen it to Odin’s spear on the cheap compressed wood that is my brain polluting the reader while satisfying a shifting use.
Darwin, you erased Aristotle’s question from the mundane: why have certain species not materialized? in flesh, blood and other liquids; what took them out of the sane? I demand explanations of patterns, I demand frames:
There are unicorns, but where is mine? there are gnomes, as alternative truths, do you lie? there is you, as a flower self-reflecting on a murky water surface there is peace, as a chain smoker quiting, in between puffs
I knowingly sip hot water crystal clearly misting spectacles, intentionally sorting out the Babel evidenced on Sunday at 10:27 I succumb to shifts and dislocations in explanatory frames on Sunday, more Woden Wednesdays are near.
On Sunday autumn leaves plays and mind’s a page.
—animasuri’23
—-• Triggers and Seedlings:
Garfinkel, A. (1981). Forms of Explanation: rethinking the questions in social theory. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 9, 19
While
sharing some attributes, ‘accountability’ is not to be confused with
‘responsibility.’
‘Accountability’
is an allocation of measurement or evaluation (of blame or award) after a given event, as its outcome is
measured or perceived.Following the finalization or interruption of processes
that created an event and its results, an individual is held accountable. One then has an obligation
to report, to explain,
or to justify the effect, the outcome and how these affect or impact. Accountability relates to one’s commitment, to
one’s response and to one taking ownership, with clarity, of the output
or result of a given process and its (undesirable or desirable) consequences.
It relates to the goodness of the result, and of its consequences. Often
accountability is allocated to a single individual (if not, a blame-game could follow).
One has accountability, and one is held accountable. An accountable individual, or organzation, is
one that is transparent about its decision-making processes, and is
willing to explain and justify its actions to others. The
measurement of accountability can
be done by oversight, by investigating
compliance, by analysis of reporting, and by allowing enforcement of reprimands, sanctions or
legal steps where judged necessary.
One could
distinguish that having the ownership over a task, that must be done, is
‘responsibility.’ Responsibility implies duty of one, or more
than one individual, as a team. It relates to the rightness of taking action in
completing a task. One takes
responsibility, and one is responsible for doing a task.
Accountability
“implies an ethical, moral, or other expectation (e.g., as set out in
management practices or codes of conduct) that guides individuals’ or
organisations’ actions or conduct and allows them to explain reasons for which
decisions and actions were taken. In the case of a negative outcome, it also
implies taking action to ensure a better outcome in the future… In this context, “accountability” refers to
the expectation that organisations or individuals will ensure the proper
functioning, throughout their lifecycle, of the AI systems that they design,
develop, operate or deploy, in accordance with their roles and applicable
regulatory frameworks, and for demonstrating this through their actions and
decision-making process (for example, by providing documentation on key
decisions throughout the AI system lifecycle or conducting or allowing auditing
where justified.” (OECD)
