Call for Humanities: We Need the Frankfurt School to Unpack AI
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-08-13
The author expresses frustration that so few humanities scholars and continental philosophers are AI-forward. He calls for thinkers akin to Walter Benjamin or the Frankfurt School to step up and unpack the profound meaning of the AI wave, specifically how it is reconfiguring what it means to be human.
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