july

Renaissance for the humanities

Part of the Renaissance Period (1400s~1500s ish) was a rediscovery of the humanities and classics after a long Middle Ages. It was the ability to have a new take on Plato, Socrates and a new interpretation of Roman texts as well. It was to be able to have new emotions, new interpretations and a new meaning of what came before - politically, socially, artistically and economically. Art for example was still religious (not independent of it till the Enlightenment, The Reformation) but now the religious figures showed human emotion - art before the Renaissance did not.

I do think this coming shift with AI is going to prompt and change a lot of what we think about the humanities - a reinterpretation of who we are, and how we can represent ourselves. The story we tell ourselves about who we are will once again be changed and reinterpreted— and with that I do believe our humanities will once again change