Amid the rise of the #FutureOfWork, are you wondering how you can bring out the best in #GenZ colleagues? alumni UBC is hosting a webinar on this topic this coming Wednesday, and I'll be giving the keynote. Hope to see you there! alumni.ubc.ca/event/empower-…

Is anyone in STS circles working on the topic of technological obsolescence these days?

Wise insights on teaching students how to #write, from the ever-wise Howard Aldrich howardaldrich.org/2019/11/the-hu…

A big question looms over generative AI: what really is its impact on the environment? I spent months investigating a single campus of Microsoft data centers in the Arizona desert - designated in part for OpenAI - in an attempt to find out. Thread. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"This obsession with being done with things ... is ridiculous. I find myself sometimes having a lovely time ... and I’ll notice an insistent hankering for [it] to be over. Why? So I can get to the next thing ... Keep rushing, even through the good parts." nytimes.com/2024/03/02/bri…

"Each new robot per 1,000 workers led to about 8 additional deaths per 100,000 males aged 45 to 54 and nearly 4 additional deaths per 100,000 females in the same age group." - fascinating, if alarming, insights from @RourkeOBrien et al news.yale.edu/2022/02/24/rob…

Today is the official publication day for Behind the Startup! A thread on what you can expect from the book: ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

some of my thoughts about the repression of campus protests scientificamerican.com/article/repres…

"In forty years, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty." #RobinDGKelley to Columbia University president #Shafik bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

This whole article resonates with my teaching experience of late

Summary of our dialogue on how to leverage organization theory insights to understand the #FutureOfWork. #AI, #platforms, #algorithms, #robots, #remotework, or #talentmarketplaces may be new. Yet, established research speaks to the questions they pose. socialsciencespace.com/2024/08/the-wo…

Very excited to be presenting in the Harvard Culture and Social Analysis Workshop (Harvard Sociology) workshop this year on Oct 22, alongside Allison Pugh (whose work I've long admired!) - hope to see you there!

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Our session on AI, work, and culture is tomorrow (10/8)! Please join us to hear from Kevin W. Lee on technological rationalization in creative fields of work, and Allison Pugh on connective labor and the "depersonalization crisis." Link below. cc Michele Lamont Harvard Sociology ASA Culture Section

🤩 Together with @tineadam, I organize an exciting webinar on "SAP meets OMT - Insights, Synergies & Pathways into the Future." 🤝 ✍️ Register here: bit.ly/SAP_OMT 📅 Date: November 25, 2024 ⏰ Time: 1-2.30 pm (CET)

"The true wellspring of the #uncanny is ... our unconscious ... we turn to fantasies, to dreams, to delusion — until we recognize ourselves, primally, horribly, in the face of something that we always knew was never alive." nytimes.com/2024/11/18/art…

Levi-Strauss once made a beautiful point that I always keep in the back of my mind as a starting point for aesthetic criticism: that cultural artifacts of any sort are symbolic resolutions of materially real contradictions, that criticism unravels that ready-made synthesis.

I think #MichelAnteby's book is absolutely fantastic, as I hope is apparent from my review! Check it out in the attached link

"When you first start to write you get all the kick and the reader gets none, but after ... it's your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he had read but something that happened to himself. That's the true test of writing." - Hemingway