Category Archives: Aarthi Vadde

9.5 Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)

In an essay about her recent book Searches, a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers seemed to mistake her engagement with ChatGPT as an uncritical embrace of large language models. Enter Aarthi Vadde to talk with VauhiniContinue reading “9.5 Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)”

9.0 Writing Against the System (EH, CH)

We kick off Season 9: TECH by talking with our very own Aarthi Vadde, the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Hosts and co-producers Chris Holmes and Emily Hyde ask Aarthi about the role of the novel in relation to the mass writing platforms that dominate our digital lives. Aarthi isContinue reading “9.0 Writing Against the System (EH, CH)”