To re-sound the alarm at the eleventh hour: If language is the battlefield – then a free imagination remains the most powerful mysterious tool of resistance. The obviously-looming threats keep gathering: CORP U’s cynical attacks on freedom of speech and expression in academia, the dying humanities, book burning and book banning (as reading itself is “retired” along with attention and inspiration) plus ongoing word-exsanguination in search of “bias-free language.”
Wonderful. I was bracing myself to read something terrifying about AI and instead feel reassured about the irreplaceability of imagination. Thank you.