In the last few minutes of class, I asked whether there were big narratives circulating today that might require the kind of critical pushback that Lyotard described and advocated in 1979.
It took a few minutes of awkward silence before anyone would bite.
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The first answer was from a young man who said, more or less, all of my feeds are filled with the same clips of Sam Altman telling people that AI is the only way forward for humanity.
I asked whether it was weird that the only way forward for humanity is the one that would make men like Altman even richer and more powerful than they already are.
Students agreed that was weird and troubling.
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