It’s been said before, but the extent to which the academic, cultural, professional and pedagogical world was already governed in a way amenable for LLMs to succeed, well before LLMs existed, gets far too overlooked.
So that you can go to the pub and talk angrily about how modernist architecture had been misrepresented by the lecturer with your friends. This is how you actually learn thing…
you might be right for now—but wait another 15 years and report back then. (Also, there are all sorts of patterns: Yeats produced an entire poetic oeuvre using his seemingly unchanging sentimentality about getting older.)
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Could not find a digital surrogate of the 1608, but archive.org/details/hornschuchsortho0000horn has pdf of the 1972 facsimile, and the woodcut is there.
The Latin ed was published in facsimile with English translation in the 1970s.
The 1608 has the same woodcut—I must have seen it before as an illustration. It looks 16th c., 1634 just felt too late a date, but that was if course based on nothing.
Here’s what I found: The 1634 edition seems to be the first German translation of the book; the Latin seems to have been first published in 1608, also in Leipzig. The Latin ed does not seem to include Kramer’s treatise (pp 51ff in 1634).
This is a great image—is it not based on a 16th century one? Or re-using an old block? I seem to recall having seen it before.
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Of course. (The sentence isn’t so small, either btw.) But there is a difference between the story of what we mean by a book (or work) and “the history of the book” as a discipline.
because that’s been written too…? How about going Chapter 4: The Work?
This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI.
AI does three main things:
1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive
2) transfer wealth upwards
3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)
@spoerhase.bsky.social co-wrote a big one on scholarship and academic labor which works a bit differently—Latour rather than Bourdieu.
because that’s been written too…? How about going Chapter 4: The Work?
I am inviting ghost writers. Better?
Too bad there is a good book on it. Still.
Actually, chapter 3: THE CHAPTER,
Right—although it narrows it down to argumentative writing, whereas sentence and paragraph work across genres. But some way of thinking abt creating larger structures.
The history of the paragraph. That should be chapter 2. Chapter 1 is the history of the sentence. Another one with wildly unexpected episodes. (If you ever thought the problem with 17th c sentences is just punctuation, think again.) Chapter 3…? Those two should be enough.
Not to mention other languages where may not even be a word for it.
This is fascinating! I loved learning more about how Cold War ideology shaped high school English. It's also interesting how divorced high school English is from college English and the literary profession. Definitely going to check out this book when it is published.
the actual condition of the “diffusion of humanistic knowledge”
Great intervention by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on reactionary centrism, anti-wokeness, and the tendency to interpret the success of the right as backlash instead of as its own political project
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I did not know about this!: “BLUE (in Gowanus) is an ever-growing home to 6,000 books, journals, exhibition catalogs and objects that examine and celebrate the global history, traditions, makers, craft and beauty of textiles.” tatter.org/blue-library/
Thanks. Photos are what they are but the binding scheme matches what I saw. My original question was very broad and general, but at least some of the other bound volumes also follow this pattern. I wonder if there are alternative options.
Since Emilia Bassano was busy writing the works attributed to the Stratford man, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum must be the work of Edward DeVere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
I would put it differently: almost always no implies human level writing…
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