Andreas Tranvik
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PhD candidate at Lund University Literature, knowledge, history
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New article: literary studies/theatre studies meets the history of knowledge as I make the case for revisiting two canonical works of Scandinavian and European modern drama as representations and critiques of the process of specialization within the modern research university.
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Project MUSE - Specialization on Stage: The Formation and Deformation of Knowledge in <i>Hedda Gabler</i> and <i>A Dream Play</i>
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/966609
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Se hit, jag har skrivit en text om ett favoritĂ€mne: fotnoter. Eller egentligen handlar den om skenciteringar och andra dumheter. Kafka nĂ€mns, Borges nĂ€mns, Sianne Ngai och Anthony Grafton nĂ€mns â nĂ„got för alla alltsĂ„.
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ANDREAS TRANVIK: Vi stirrar den nya dumheten i vitögat
Teknikoptimismen i högskolan leder till nya dumheter. Andreas Tranvik uppmanar till eftertanke.
https://www.expressen.se/kultur/kulturdebatt/vi-stirrar-den-nya-dumheten-i-vitogat/
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Se hit, jag har skrivit en text om ett favoritĂ€mne: fotnoter. Eller egentligen handlar den om skenciteringar och andra dumheter. Kafka nĂ€mns, Borges nĂ€mns, Sianne Ngai och Anthony Grafton nĂ€mns â nĂ„got för alla alltsĂ„.
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ANDREAS TRANVIK: Vi stirrar den nya dumheten i vitögat
Teknikoptimismen i högskolan leder till nya dumheter. Andreas Tranvik uppmanar till eftertanke.
https://www.expressen.se/kultur/kulturdebatt/vi-stirrar-den-nya-dumheten-i-vitogat/
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Victor Malm
2 days ago
Sensationellt att nyheten om en doktorand som lÀt en LLM hallucinera fram kÀllor inte har blivit större. En mycket lÀsvÀrd essÀ om hur dumma vi Àr pÄ vÀg att bli. LÀs
@andreastranvik.bsky.social
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ANDREAS TRANVIK: Vi stirrar den nya dumheten i vitögat
Teknikoptimismen i högskolan leder till nya dumheter. Andreas Tranvik uppmanar till eftertanke.
https://www.expressen.se/kultur/kulturdebatt/vi-stirrar-den-nya-dumheten-i-vitogat/
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MIT Press
3 days ago
âOne question that all of us have is: âIs AI making science more efficient, helping us do better work, or even the same work, but faster, or is it just creating slop?â ..."
www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
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Anna Kornbluh
3 days ago
get caught up on the backstory while you can't get caught up on grading
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...
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The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU)
Listen now (112 mins) | with Christa Albrecht-Crane, Angie McKinnon Carter, and Chiler Moore
https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofcanvas
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For anyone interested in early modern bibliophilia and bibliomania, Iâm arranging this seminar next month together with Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen) and other colleagues in the research group Thinking the European Republic of Letters:
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For anyone interested in early modern bibliophilia and bibliomania, Iâm arranging this seminar next month together with Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen) and other colleagues in the research group Thinking the European Republic of Letters:
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David Larsson Heidenblad
6 days ago
Nytt blogginlĂ€gg om ett nytt forskningscentrum! đ
#tadintid
#CEKOS
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Stor nyhet! Centrum för kunskapsspridning och samtidshistoria (CEKOS) inrÀttas i höst
Stora saker Àr pÄ gÄng i Lund!
https://davidlarssonheidenblad.substack.com/p/stor-nyhet-centrum-for-kunskapsspridning
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Glad to be spending some time at UChicago for a short research visit
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Johan Ăstling
27 days ago
CfA: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge (Lund) We invite early career/postdoctoral scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of one week between 2 November and 6 November, 2026. Read more here:
newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/04/13/c...
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Tomorrow; all are welcome
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Coming up next week for anyone in or nearby Lund:
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Victoria Livingstone
about 2 months ago
Acknowledgements are great, but books should have a Grievances section tooâ you know, where you can specifically not thank people and institutions who made your life more difficult.
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Humtank
2 months ago
Samtidigt som svenska politiker talar om banbrytande teknik och snÀvt definierade idéer om innovation har humaniora seglat upp pÄ agendan i Silicon Valley. TechvÀrldens humanistiska intressen blottar de inre motsÀttningarna i vÄr nuvarande kunskapspolitik.
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Varför har techeliten börjat prata om humaniora?
https://humtank.se/varfor-har-techeliten-borjat-prata-om-humaniora/
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MLN Journal
3 months ago
In our new Comparative Literature issue: Yael Segalovitz examines 4 recent books on close reading, asking how they converge on a bold though often implicit premise: that close reading operates through the bodily and cognitive training of the reader.
muse.jhu.edu/journal/128
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Critical Inquiry
4 months ago
Winter 2026 issue is here! Featuring essays by Yves Winter, Christopher Grobe, Esther Yu, Saul Nelson, Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld, James I. Porter, Michael Dango, and Robert Mitchell, Orit Halpern, and Henning Schmidgen.
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Matt Seybold
4 months ago
This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Yearâs. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it. Donât miss it.
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The âCrisis of the Humanitiesâ Is Over. Thatâs Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-humanities-is-over-thats-not-a-good-thing
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Courtney Weiss Smith
4 months ago
Itâs here! Iâm delighted to share a new theme issue of
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, âPhilology Now.â Valeria LĂłpez Fadul and I edited this issue, featuring smart contributions by Emily Apter, Peter de Bolla, Alan Durston, Cymone Fourshey, Claire Gilbert, Anthony GraftonâŠ
historyandtheory.org/64-4
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Philology Now â Volume 64, Number 4 â History and Theory
History and Theory, Volume 64, Number 4
https://historyandtheory.org/64-4
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Victor Malm
4 months ago
I dagens Expressen skriver Fredrik Hertzberg ovanligt skarpt om universitetens svÄra situation och tilltagande meningslöshet
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FREDRIK HERTZBERG: VÄra universitet Àr pÄ vÀg att bli meningslösa
Universiteten har blivit lÄngsamma, överadministrerade zombieinstitutioner. Fredrik Hertzberg lÀser tvÄ böcker och hittar en förklaring till varför akademin blev sÄ dark.
https://www.expressen.se/kultur/kulturdebatt/vara-universitet-ar-pa-vag-att-bli-meningslosa
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Min syster har skrivit den roligaste jultexten du kommer lĂ€sa i Ă„râŠ
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Hanna Lublin Niklasson: I Är blir det ingen raketglögg
Hanna Lublin Niklasson inser att hennes familj lurat henne varenda jul.
https://ng.se/artiklar/hanna-lublin-niklasson-i-ar-blir-det-ingen-raketglogg
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Martin Degrell
5 months ago
Anekdotiskt: pĂ„ sv lĂ€rosĂ€ten (och sĂ€kert andra myndigheter) utsĂ€tts just nu TA-personal (inkl kommunikatörer) för en intensiv, nĂ€rmast evangelisk AI-propaganda frĂ„n central förv; man uppmanas anvĂ€nda AI hejvilt, inga nackdelar tas öht upp. Ăr man dĂ„ dĂ„ligt insatt Ă€r det nog lĂ€tt att svepas med.
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Hampus Ăsth Gustafsson
5 months ago
New article on the acceleration and standardisation of time in 1960s Swedish higher education:
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Setting the ânormal study timeâ: temporal acceleration and standardisation in 1960s Swedish higher education
The acceleration of academic time has been a persistent theme in debates on higher education, fuelled by politicians as well as students. In this article, we analyse and discuss acceleration and st...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WPRIWZXGBG6BBD95ZZUC/full?target=10.1080/03075079.2025.2601879
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Andrew Heiss
5 months ago
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Merriam-Webster
5 months ago
Merriam-Websterâs human editors have chosen âslopâ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Johanna Winant
5 months ago
no you read your husband the quote from Tom Stoppardâs Arcadia about the Library of Alexandria and started weeping too hard to finish
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David Larsson Heidenblad
6 months ago
Hej Göteborg! Till vĂ„ren kör vi en ny upplaga av "Forskaren i framtidens offentlighet". Den hĂ€r gĂ„ngen pĂ„ vĂ€stkusten! NĂ€r? 15 april, 9-16 Var? Chalmers Ăr det gratis? Yes, men platserna Ă€r begrĂ€nsade. AnmĂ€lan sker hĂ€r:
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Sprid och dela gÀrna!
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Anna Hofman
6 months ago
I'm thrilled to share that "Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook" is out! It brings together a range of perspectives on poetry parameters, formats, practices, debates & more â and is available in open access via the link below:
@poetryda.bsky.social
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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Poetry in the Digital Age
As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of the traditional paradigms of literary studies but also attracts increasing attent...
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111704548/html
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Matt Seybold
6 months ago
âAdversarial poetry.â Love this. Obvs.
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Emily Nussbaum
6 months ago
I like how SPECIFIC this Lily Allen divorce album is!
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Weekendavisen
7 months ago
Men der er ogsÄ et andet problem, som mÄske faktisk er mere skrÊmmende, skriver Christian Bennike:
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Jag tÀnker ofta, alltför ofta, pÄ denna passage.
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Anne Trubek
7 months ago
This is how you blurb
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Humtank
7 months ago
NĂ€r vi inte lĂ€ngre vĂ€ger vĂ„ra ord i mellanmĂ€nskliga samtal och egenförfattade texter, nĂ€r misstĂ€nksamheten ersĂ€tter viljan till djupare förstĂ„else â dĂ„ har den humanistiska vetenskapen förlorat sin sjĂ€l.
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Anna Hegardt KÀllén: Vikten av mellanrummet
https://humtank.se/anna-hegardt-kallen-vikten-av-mellanrummet/
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I dag brÄkar jag om AI, akademiskt skrivande och hantverksskicklighet. Framför allt gör jag ett försök att koppla samman AI-frÄgan hÀr och nu med en sedan lÀnge existerande andlig robotisering i universitetsvÀrlden, en robotisering som föregriper de stora sprÄkmodellernas utbredning.
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ANDREAS TRANVIK: Svenska forskare Àr redan som Chat GPT
Debatterna om AI-anvÀndningen i universitetsvÀrlden fortsÀtter. Andreas Tranvik tycker att vi mÄste stÄ upp för det akademiska skrivandet som ett kreativt hantverk.
https://www.expressen.se/kultur/svenska-forskare-ar-redan-som-chat-gpt/
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I dag brÄkar jag om AI, akademiskt skrivande och hantverksskicklighet. Framför allt gör jag ett försök att koppla samman AI-frÄgan hÀr och nu med en sedan lÀnge existerande andlig robotisering i universitetsvÀrlden, en robotisering som föregriper de stora sprÄkmodellernas utbredning.
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ANDREAS TRANVIK: Svenska forskare Àr redan som Chat GPT
Debatterna om AI-anvÀndningen i universitetsvÀrlden fortsÀtter. Andreas Tranvik tycker att vi mÄste stÄ upp för det akademiska skrivandet som ett kreativt hantverk.
https://www.expressen.se/kultur/svenska-forskare-ar-redan-som-chat-gpt/
7 months ago
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Humtank
7 months ago
Humanioras publiceringskulturer skapar huvudvĂ€rk för forskningens utvĂ€rderare. I VetenskapsrĂ„dets Forskningsbarometer 2025 har omrĂ„det i vissa delar utelĂ€mnats. Ăr humaniora satt pĂ„ undantag i kunskapsnationen Sverige?
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Linus Salö och Mats Benner: NÀr barometern snurrar
https://humtank.se/linus-salo-och-mats-benner-nar-barometern-snurrar/
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Derek Thompson
7 months ago
1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers. 2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show. 3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones. Everything is becoming television. I wrote about why that matters.
www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...
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Everything Is Television
A theory of culture and attention
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television
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Johan Ăstling
7 months ago
THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE This week, on 8â10 October, LUCK is organizing The History of Knowledge Conference in Lund. I am delighted to be the host together with my dear colleagues. The programme can be found here:
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Hampus Ăsth Gustafsson
9 months ago
What was the Swedish âdocent gradeâ? In a new article in Minerva,
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This will be part of an upcoming special issue on the history of peer review in the humanities.
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The Elusive âDocent Gradeâ: Evaluative Cultures in and Beyond the Swedish Humanities (1876â1969) - Minerva
In the late nineteenth and for much of the twentieth century, an academic career in Sweden was highly dependent on what grade a scholarâs doctoral dissertation was awarded. Unless receiving a so-calle...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-025-09598-8
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London Review of Books
9 months ago
âSatire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all.â Colin Burrow on satire:
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Colin Burrow · Let custards quake: Satire without the Jokes
To think of a satirist as a person who angrily turns against a gale-force wind and sprays liquefied shit at a group of...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n13/colin-burrow/let-custards-quake
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Johan Ăstling
9 months ago
Today, August 19, the sixth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge opens. Over the next four days, an international group of 20 Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers will gather in Lund for seminars and discussions. Thank you,
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Anna Kornbluh
9 months ago
teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI
https://against-a-i.com
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Yair Rosenberg
9 months ago
I wrote about how AI chatbots are pumping out fake quotes, attributed to real people, at scale, and polluting our public disourse with potemkin pontification and made-up appeals to authority. And the AIs are not just misquoting famous peopleâit happened to me and it could happen to you. Gift link:
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Donât Believe What AI Told You I Said
The chatbots are lying about me.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-inventing-quotes/683888/?gift=Y5UOGK3oJJO3esRHvDP7oVEDQ0Flhsl2hJi9aIsdjJE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
9 months ago
I think weâre on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the âlearning lossâ of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
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Pleased to be able to present this short piece on Andrew Huiâs original and engaging study of the studyâin one of my very favorite journals, at that.
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Pleased to be able to present this short piece on Andrew Huiâs original and engaging study of the studyâin one of my very favorite journals, at that.
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Critical Inquiry
9 months ago
"He illuminates our understanding of books, libraries, and learning in early modernity . . . whilst also directing 'a critical gaze at our own day-to-day practice of scholarly work.'" New in review, Andreas Tranvik on Andrew Hui's The Study:
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New article: literary studies/theatre studies meets the history of knowledge as I make the case for revisiting two canonical works of Scandinavian and European modern drama as representations and critiques of the process of specialization within the modern research university.
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Project MUSE - Specialization on Stage: The Formation and Deformation of Knowledge in <i>Hedda Gabler</i> and <i>A Dream Play</i>
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/966609
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New article: literary studies/theatre studies meets the history of knowledge as I make the case for revisiting two canonical works of Scandinavian and European modern drama as representations and critiques of the process of specialization within the modern research university.
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Project MUSE - Specialization on Stage: The Formation and Deformation of Knowledge in <i>Hedda Gabler</i> and <i>A Dream Play</i>
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/966609
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