This is a site that chronicles the ever and fast changing capitalist modernity. The name draws from a famous passage by Marx and Engels: “The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society…All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
Generative AI, Large Language Models, and machine learning are part of this rapid change. Our core mission on this site is to understand generative AI’s disruption of higher eduction.
All that is solid about the university is melting into air.
Nik Janos is a Professor of Sociology at California State University Chico. He is co-editor of the book “Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice.” His academic interests are urbanization, globalization, technology, and energy.
Zach Justus is a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at California State University Chico and the Director of Faculty Development. He has published research on teaching/learning and other topics. His work can be found in Argumentation and Advocacy and Communication Teacher as well as other edited volumes and journals.
