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It is not just students any more who are discovering the value of online research sources, including compilers, LLMs, recommender sites and quasi chatbots that aid in the blue collar work of knowledge production on platforms for the consumption and production of data in a form that humans sometimes signify as knowledge.
These platforms are layered in three dimensional space among knowledge producers (themselves organized in social and economic hierarchies (academics, influencers, through leaders, manipulators, progagandists, theologians, rabblerousers, "common people," economic, social and cultural organs and the like), each of which enforces their own production and consumption rules and each of which is sometimes deeply inter-connected (through the dynamics of structural coupling, irritation, or inter-penetration (aligned with aligned or partial inter-subjectivities) that together now propel human collective systems in their management or drive toward more conscious structures of ordering their cognitive cages, and from that of ordering the aggregated humans that constitute their consumers and producers--as economics, social, cultural or political production--and as the means by which human cognition and ordering may be made collective, stable, and the subject of (sometimes extreme) disciplining. That disciplining itself now takes virtual form as the inherited tropes of older forms of apostasy, heresy, deviation, rogue behaviors and the like which has always been the data-information object platforms for the maintenance, not of the human, but necessarily of the human collective (some links to reflections on aspects of this here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
But it is the organization of the knowledge production basis of this fundamental industry for the protection/production/disciplining of stable collectivity in the age of the virtual, in which machine intelligence now begins to assume the role of collective praetorian, that these impulses become interesting again. These thoughts came to mind as I considered a quite interesting and useful posting on "X" :
Emrullah @emrullahai
Translated from Turkish
SITES THAT ACADEMICS AND PhD STUDENTS ALWAYS USE BUT DON'T WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT. Save this for sure. You don't need to keep paying constantly in an academic sense. The sites below will more than suffice for you. 1. http://annas-archive.org The world's largest open library. Almost every textbook assigned by your professor is available here for free. 2. http://scispace.com A search engine for academic articles. Sort by citations to find the most impactful research. 3. http://papernity.com An academic thesis and article generation engine. Section writing with zero hallucinations. 4. http://semanticscholar.org AI-powered article search developed by the Allen Institute. Highlights every citation in its context. 5. http://connectedpapers.com Enter an article, and see every related work mapped out as a graph. Uncovers what experts are actually reading together. 6. http://elicit.com An AI research assistant. Ask any question and get structured article tables along with key findings. 7. http://consensus.app Combines the results of thousands of articles into a single answer. Prevents cherry-picking. 8. http://researchrabbit.ai The Spotify for articles. Suggests new research based on what you've already read. 9. http://litmaps.com Visualizes citation chains. Shows how an idea has spread through decades of research. 10. http://scite.ai Tells you which articles support, refute, or mention any given claim. Saves hours of fact-checking. 11. http://core.ac.uk 200 million open-access articles in a single searchable index. The world's largest free academic archive.
6:24 AM · Jun 30, 2026
·391.1K Views (Source Cite HERE; original Turkish HERE)
Let me be clear, if only because the current impulses of certain cognitive systems of might see ion this some sort of click or rage bait frm or through any number of lenses. First I am unconcerned about the value of these recommendations; I am not sharing the list as either any sort of endorsement or to encourage either ethical or unethical behaviors in the production or use of knowledge within whatever system and for whatever purpose any of these machine enhanced systems may be utilized. I leave that for those more interested in preserving the integrity of whatever cognitive cage in which they may be invested.
What becomes more interesting, perhaps, is the way in which these emerging machine knowledge production tools provide a glimpse at the detachment of knowledge production from human expertise. It becomes, increasingly, a commodity that is raw material for the construction of other objects (social, cultural, economic, etc.) and the production of societally useful objects and processes, including the knowledge blocks from out of which the society itself may rationalize itself and thus rationalized order its productive forces, including humans, within it. In the process it turns the post modernism and its social critique on its head.
What had been the critical element of the human in the constitution of habitus (Bourdieu), power-knowledge (Foucault), and lenbenswelt (Husserl) is showing the signs of passing that critical role to machine systems and their inherited or appropriated human data-knowledge production cauldrons. Experts (like doctors, psychologists, academics, criminologists--the vanguardist expert class ) no longer may wield authority through the discursive appearance of the possession objective facts deployed authoritatively within historically established discourses (Foucault). They become instead authoritative conduits, for as long as it is socially useful to construct their ministerial role with that sort of signification. Knowledge is no produced within specialized knowledge production platforms (Bourdieu's fields, academia, law, medicine) curated by experts acting as agents whose perceptions and practices are shaped by their habitus (ingrained cultural habits and dispositions) in a sort of recursive inter-subjective loop (Bourdieu). They become, instead the facilitators, the field hands of production the inter-subjectivity of which occurs now within the cauldrons of machine learning and computational (soon quantum) spaces, then translated and reduced for human consumption. Human experts may now serve as the bridge between abstract "expert systems" (like algorithms, institutions, or formal sciences) and the intuitive realities of the lifeworld. They might provide the context, empathy, and judgment needed to apply theoretical knowledge to complex, real-world human scenarios. Yet it is only a small step from preserving the role of expert as conduit and democratizing the conduit itself.
And where does this take the human collective? Perhaps back to Nietzsche and his Twilight of the Idols. Our elites are reduced again to the type of the priest--the vanguard elected in some fashion to interpret or "hear" the voice of some exogenous producer of truth, the belief in which is the cement with which the world may be rationalized and collectivized humans can be organized. And now it is possible to hear the irony in Nietzsche's famous question: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? " The answer, it appears, is as Mary Shelly once warned--we recreate God in our own image, in our own image we have fashioned a god and breathed human life into machine systems which we will now serve as yet another mechanism for the control of collectivized humans by its vanguards (considered further in the cognitive context of the machine intelligence age here: 'The Soulful Machine, the Virtual Person, and the “Human” Condition').
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