chad wellmon

teaches and writes on history of knowledge, media, and technology & intellectual history @UVA

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

“Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age” out in just a few weeks. Feel the hype: “…a magisterial tour-de-force of historical scholarship…It has the potential to alter the debate over the place of the humanities…” Warren G. Breckman https://t.co/2kEsOiMfzC

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@_John_Handel we're gonna optimize the shit out of real learning, John. evidence-based, economized, rationalized efficiences that demand out-sized tuition increases.

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@SWGoldman my teaching remains steadfastly amoral and a-(non?)- virtuous. i float like a turkey vulture above the value conflicts and communities of commitment.

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@SWGoldman Next up: Committee on Social Thought Top Ten Greatest

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

The University Chicago's decline began in the 1930s when it abandoned its greatest form of excellence: football. People keep talking about great UC scholars but never forget UC's Jay Berwanger, the first Heisman Trophy winner. https://t.co/fNbgtgNh4K

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

The joke is that education is tangential to this decision. Like all universities UC is a complex bureaucratic behemoth betting that new enterprise software can increase efficiencies faster than integration of "AI" in Workday etc. Educating: but one function of our monstrosities.

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@g_shullenberger Greg is gonna force me to subscribe to Compact.

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

one plus is that when emailing our UC colleagues we'll have to more self-consciously wonder if the reply is human/machine writing. A good exercise generally now but the UC just forced its habituation for some of us with lingering nostalgia about what UC once was.

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

The joke is that education is tangential to this decision. Like all universities UC is a complex bureaucratic behemoth betting that new enterprise software can increase efficiencies faster than integration of "AI" in Workday etc. Educating: but one function of our monstrosities.

[Sarah Osment @sm_osment]

hahahahahahahhahahahahahaha

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

see this related story from last week. https://t.co/BvG9mrzIu1

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

Bizcon at UChicago: pre-professional major w/in Econ w/ which it shares no reqs: “The business economics specialization adds Booth School of Biz courses…providing career-related skills in economics w/out mathematical rigor of the standard economics track” https://t.co/dlAeL0tVpV

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@fstflofscholars i gave a talk at Warwick on all this recently and need to revise into something readable.

[Craig Calhoun @craigjcalhoun]

Have had the chance to read some - and this is among the best books on what is happening to higher education and scholarship.

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

Just a few more weeks until After the University is out. Read the introduction here: https://t.co/uhNsOQ0qtj

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@TrevorGriffey ...also add, at least here, "differential tuition" rates.

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

So was it Trump or ChatGPT that destroyed higher ed? https://t.co/XQuRwDO8qg

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@TrevorGriffey yeah, 2010 is kinda on the nose. i started at UVA in 2007 and the real, local effects of that year and after didn't manifest until, well, 2010.

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@SWGoldman @DavidAstinWalsh i saw David's comment and immediately thought...where's Sam. and, well, here you are.

[Cambridge University Press - History @cambUP_History]

The Evolution of Western Thought by Christopher S. Celenza
A sweeping intellectual history tracing how philosophical, religious and literary traditions evolved from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages.
📘 https://t.co/eOCgL2NXHr

#intellectualhistory #historyofideas

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@lindakinstler @nikos_janos Thanks so much, Linda. And thank you for your work, most recently this piece which does so much so well. “The omnipresence of ChatGPT has forced a conversation about the value of academic work, the role of public universities and the perils of partnerships with private industry.”

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@lint_ax The older folks who peopled Dreyfus's and Sluga's courses at UCBerekely when I was a grad were quite the characters.

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

“From 2020 through 2025, the most recent data available, $2.7 trillion in new wealth was created for the top 0.0001% in the U.S., a group of about 250 people…The bottom 50%—about 125 million people—saw just $1.9 trillion in new wealth since 2020.” https://t.co/KO9hQMEqoZ

[chad wellmon @cwellmon]

@craigjcalhoun …thanks so much. My daughter Ev still talks about your course in the fall.