The science move — the hinge master-word
The hinge of Cluster IV: "science" welds inquiry, institution, and master-word into one noun, and is the operation the other master-words (data, the algorithm, intelligence) borrow their authority from. The lineage that names the gap between science-as-inquiry and science-as-authority — Kuhn (already a thread), Feyerabend on method, Latour & Woolgar / Shapin & Schaffer on constructed fact, Laudan on the abandoned demarcation boundary, Merton as foil. Feeds /threads/science-move.
- Against Method (1975)Paul Feyerabend (NLB / Verso)
- Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (1979 / 1986)Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar (Princeton University Press)
- Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (1985)Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer (Princeton University Press)
- The Demise of the Demarcation Problem (1983)Larry Laudan, in Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
- The Normative Structure of Science / CUDOS (1942) — as foilRobert K. Merton, in The Sociology of Science (1973)
- On the coinage of "scientist" (1833)William Whewell (OED / Ross, "Scientist: The story of a word", 1962)
The intelligence move — naming as power
The choice of the word "intelligence" was a positioning move at the 1956 Dartmouth workshop, not a description. Tracking the lineage that critiques the term itself — McCarthy on the coinage, McDermott on smuggled competence, Gould on rankable-scalar fictions, Dreyfus / Weizenbaum / Searle on what gets named "intelligent," Brian Cantwell Smith on reckoning vs. judgment. Feeds the new /threads/intelligence-move thread.
- A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955)John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon
- Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (1976)Drew McDermott (SIGART Newsletter)
- The Mismeasure of Man (1981)Stephen Jay Gould
- What Computers Still Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason (1992 rev.)Hubert L. Dreyfus
- Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (1976)Joseph Weizenbaum
- The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment (2019)Brian Cantwell Smith (MIT Press)
The publishing system as business, not knowledge
Sources for the claim that the academic publication apparatus is structurally a business — rewarding production over investigation, alignment over inquiry. The replication crisis literature, the Elsevier-margin literature, and the STS critique converge on this from independent directions.
- Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)John P. A. Ioannidis (PLoS Medicine)
- Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? (2017)Stephen Buranyi (The Guardian)
- Goodhart’s Law / Strathern formulation (1997)Marilyn Strathern, "Improving Ratings": audit in the British University system
When did "AI" become one thing?
Tracking the linguistic collapse from a plurality of subfields (vision, NLP, robotics, time-series) into the singular monolithic "AI" — three waves: corporate rebranding (2015–2017), AI-washing (2017–2022), ChatGPT collapse (Nov 2022 →).
Critical theory of "AI" as a category
The argument that the singular term itself is a power move — obscuring labor, extraction, classification politics, and military lineage. Required reading before any frame-level claim about what AI "is."
- Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial IntelligenceKate Crawford (Yale, 2021)
- What is AI? Part 2 — AI Now SalonsLucy Suchman
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell (FAccT 2021)
Tools to verify the singularization timeline
Datasets and viewers worth running directly before citing the shift — the books corpus, search trends, and arXiv title frequencies are independent witnesses to the same collapse.
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