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Creative Pragmatics for active learning — implications of AI in assessment
Assessment in the AI era: a moment we have been preparing for since the 1980s A comment on the Stanford Accelerator for Learning white paper “Responsible Assessment in the AI Era” (2026) Quick summary — AI is revealing the flaws of traditional pedagogy based on standardized testing of final course deliverables. I am not alone…
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey – an old story, but not the one that’s being talked about
Replaying Homer — Theatre/Archaeology. Notes on Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. The Odyssey, adapted from Homer and directed by Christopher Nolan. Even before its release on July 17, the movie generated much discussion and commentary. Historical accuracy – helmets from the wrong period, Viking ships in the Bronze Age, and an Agamemnon that looks like Batman. Fidelity to Homer’s…
Becoming stone
Figuration. Statue. Flint pebble rolled by the Storebaelt, Nyborg, Fyn. Titan Kronos, fearful of the prophecy that his children would overthrow him, ate them whole upon their birth. Until Rhea, his partner, gave Kronos a stone that he mistook for the infant god Zeus. Having returned from Mount Ida where he grew to maturity, Zeus…
Becoming stone — death and transfiguration
Stevns Klint, Denmark. Connie Svabo and I are visiting this extraordinary geological site that achieved World Heritage status in 2014. She was part of the team that developed the concept for the superb new visitor center [Link]. Here is a vitalist and hylozoic commentary. Exposed limestone and chalk geology. Højerup old church. The beds of…
Statue – figuration – physiognomy
Roman, 3rd Century CE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.