Colloque CRIHN 2025 en l’honneur de Stéfan Sinclair

L’herméneutique en pratique : hommage au travail et à l’héritage de Stéfan Sinclair – Une conférence sur l’analyse de texte, la création d’outils et les humanités numériques critiques Université de Montréal, 10-12 septembre 2025 Conférencières plénières : Servanne Monjour (Sorbonne Université) et Lauren Tilton (Richmond University) Programme Mercredi 10 septembre 2025 (Atelier optionnel) 9h30-12h30 Atelier « Introduction to […]

I’m at a colloquium in honour of Stéfan Sinclair, Colloque CRIHN 2025 en l’honneur de Stéfan Sinclair. I ran a workshop on Spyral and later gave a talk about “Epistemologica in Practice: Replication and Knowledge in Spyral.”

The colloquium had a number of great talks, but one I particularly liked was by Parham Aledavood (U de Montréal)  titled “Viral Intelligence: Contagion, Mutation, and the Spread of LLMs.” He talked about how the release of ChatGPT in 2022 was discussed as if it were a viral event infecting us with AI. He walked through the “formulaic plot” from infection to containment. I was reminded of other stories of influence(za) like the story at the end of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura.