06 November 2026
Maxwell’s Ghosts
Generative AI will fundamentally transform all dimensions of scientific and academic activity, if it hasn’t done so already. Whether academic communities can prevent the crisis will depend not least on whether they find answers to three interconnected questions: What changes with the arrival of a new epistemic infrastructure? What risks does a commercial ordering of generative “AI for science” entail? And what can academic communities do to protect their epistemic resources that follows a scientific rather than a commercial logic? Continue reading >>
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09 February 2026
Method in the Madness
In this article, I will critique the project of a general theory of knowledge and scholarly inquiry using the figure of reflexivity. I understand critique here as a procedure that seeks to ceaselessly subdivide its object and thereby complicate it. This specific conception of critique is restless and – crucially – self-reflexive. It must carry on endlessly and thereby be brought to bear against every distinction it has itself drawn. Against a generalised theory of knowledge and scholarly inquiry, I will contrast an historically unsettled concept of epistemology. Continue reading >>
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