chad wellmon

@cwellmon

teaches and writes on history of knowledge, media, and technology & intellectual history @UVA

chadwellmon.com Joined June 2009

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chad wellmon @cwellmon Jul 31, 2021

“Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age” out in just a few weeks. Feel the hype: “…a magisterial tour-de-force of historical scholarship…It has the potential to alter the debate over the place of the humanities…” Warren G. Breckman amazon.com/dp/022673806X/…

www.amazon.com Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (Studies in the History of the University) ,

chad wellmon @cwellmon Sep 21

The liberal faith in educational institutions is a drug.

Nick Burns Verified account @NickBurns Sep 20

Every generation of American liberals places their hopes for the equalization of social conditions in the education system and every generation learns the hard way that social conditions exert a stronger influence on the education system than vice versa
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chad wellmon @cwellmon Sep 12

5, 10, 15 years ago would not have imagined I’d be reviewing a 12+page playbook with my 12 yo during Saturday lunch…like drinking from a firehouse this qb stuff.

chad wellmon @cwellmon Sep 12

Guys, guys, hear me out…we gotta pull up the ladder.

Axios @axios Sep 12

BREAKING: Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development
axios.com/2026/09/12/ant…
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chad wellmon @cwellmon Sep 11

And here @madeleineebaker with an account of the modern university in two tweets….

Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker Sep 11

The full phrase I most often hear is "taught to use AI responsibly," which is less naive about the state of usage but unfortunately assumes a whole apparatus of moral education from which the modern academy deliberately divested
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