Hi all, Some of you may be interested in having a look (open source): Ess, C. (2026). “The Gardens of Letters”: Writing, AI, and the Kubernētic Cultivation of Phronēsis and Eudaimonia in Plato’s Phaedrus. Danish Yearbook of Philosophy (published online ahead of print 2026). https://doi.org/10.1163/24689300-bja10091 It may be of specific interest for a) its background review of the readings / uses of the Phaedrus in philosophy and media and communication studies (including apparently only fairly recent - ca. from 2012 or so forward - uses as an exemplar of moral panic); b) how reading the Phaedrus as an inclusio / ring composition / "growing up" story gives us a very different (pre-modern / post-modern?) understanding of Plato's treatment of writing as the then-new media technology; c) how all of this can be applied to contemporary understandings of generative AI, LLMs, etc., including in our teaching. And a thousand thanks to the several dozen AoIR-istas who, especially around 2019-2020 or so, helped with looking further into the history of the Phaedrus as an exemplar of moral panic. All best, - charles Professor Emeritus University of Oslo