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February 2025

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...
The story of Colbert’s executive dashboard, the golden notebooks he created for Louis XIV, is fascinating because it highlights how early nation states…
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Colbert's Executive Dashboard
James Scott’s concept of legibility is both creative and highly generative.
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A Legible Landscape
The famous communication theorist Marshall McLuhan once quipped, “The medium is the message.” He was right.
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Hedgerows and Strategy
Positioning the Humanities for success in an AI world
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January 2025

AI Among Other Gods
Over Christmas, I read Yuval Harari’s new book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. In chapter four, Harari makes…
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The Historian's Craft & AI (Part IV)
In this final post in the Historian’s Craft & AI series, we consider the details of the iconography, handwritten, and printed text workflows.
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The Historian's Craft and AI (Part III)
The archive lies at the heart of historical research.
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The Historian's Craft & AI (Part II)
Happy new year everyone!
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December 2024

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