This should be ethnomethodology’s hour. Garfinkel was half a century ahead of his time, a prophet of metamodernity. The field he left behind needs a hundred-thousand-volt jolt of electricity to restart its hearthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmVhyHBRAM …
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(Not to discount or denigrate any of the great work that *is* being done in the field, notably by a new generation. It’s just that so much more is possible)
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This missive by Anderson & Sharrock also talks about the need to defibrillate EM, but IMO the root problem is more widespread than it having "run its course" (c.f. incentive structures & legacy cruft in science more generally) http://www.sharrockandanderson.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Run-its-Course-VII.pdf …
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There have been 2-3 lost generations of jobless or EM-dissimulating PhDs between Garfinkel's students and the current minor resurgence via Medical em/CA (because hey - applied CA *works*), but EM is still viewed as nonsense, or at least nonscience re: current scientistic norms.
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Having just completed one extremely lucky round on the job market and seeing the situation my
#EMCA PhD peers face, imo the field really needs major EM/CA research centers, grants and jobs - I'm betting your old field of AI might host that push, if only due to desperation ;)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Yes, definitely more funding and institutional support needed. Chicken-and-egg problem there of demonstrating value (or at least potential value) with minimal resources. But also insularity and oppositional attitude of the field (historically) is an obstacle (however justified).
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The amount of funding being (supposedly at least) funneled to AI is utterly mind-boggling, and if even .001 of it were diverted to something worthwhile, that would be fabulous and enough to create major breakthroughs in several fields.
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You think? I'm no expert, but based on reading interesting papers and seeing announcements of progress on apparently practical applications, It seems rather exuberant but not particularly unhealthy.
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Interesting… which practical applications have seemed worthwhile?
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I've certainly found Google Translate useful.
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Yes... I want to say that’s not really AI, but I don’t get to define the term, so
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