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Xaq Frohlich
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Historian and STS scholar at Auburn University | xaqfrohlich.com. Author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age
Oops! And here's the link to it: desperatelyseeking.substack.com/p/three-grea...
Three great books about food and nutrition
With a focus on the history of science
desperatelyseeking.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
... My class's first assignment thinking about AI was comparing human's claims for intelligence against claims made for other apes versus claims made for AI: auburn.instructure.com/courses/1654....
Opens up a nice irony: Animals are insufficiently rational, but machines are insufficiently emotional.
Tech & Civ Course Guide to the AI Journal: AI Showcase
auburn.instructure.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Yes! I've used the phrase "public interest AI" on grant proposals, drawing from past initiatives on "public interest technology". And I certainly appreciate your journal's consideration of posthumanist frames when critiquing AI...
September 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thanks for sharing! Very interested to hear what other historians think of it!
August 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My pleasure! I enjoyed the book, and look forward to thinking about ways to use it in my courses.
July 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Selfishly wondering whether my book on the history of FDA food labeling might one day help people piece together how we got here.
#FromLabelToTable
July 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Unofficially, this was a Fulbright finalist application. Won't go into it further, but you can imagine. Very grateful to the Fulbright Denmark Commission for resurrecting my project!
May 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you missed the American Society for Legal History Virtual Book Club last week, you can watch here the recording of @seanvanatta.bsky.social and me discussing our two books: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEYe....

Compliments of the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social .
#businesshistory
Xaq Frohlich & Sean Vanatta -- Book talk #bizhis #books
YouTube video by Business History Conference
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April 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM