Human Research?

I study subjective human experience. I do qualitative research in which my humanity is the instrument of inquiry. I think about modes of research that embrace the humanity of experience.

My research work is in the field of commerce, an arena which often pretends to objectivity and aspires to automation, yet remains thoroughly human. I’m exploring the opportunities that arise from that tension.

Jonathan Cook 5/28/25 Jonathan Cook 5/28/25

The Future Remains Human

Given the failures of past digital technologies to fulfill pro-social promises, many suspect that generative artificial intelligence will not generate more intelligence.

Jonathan Cook 5/27/25 Jonathan Cook 5/27/25

In My Line Of Work

Generative AI tempts us to give in to the fear that we ourselves are wrong, that our humanity is a defect. What if our value is held within our imperfections?

Jonathan Cook 5/22/25 Jonathan Cook 5/22/25

The Exercise Of Human Market Research

Market research is a form of exercise. As with all exercise, there are no shortcuts.

Jonathan Cook 8/7/24 Jonathan Cook 8/7/24

Into The Weeds of Artificial Intelligence

The rapid reproductive rate of generative AI fosters the ecology of weeds in our society.

Jonathan Cook 4/17/22 Jonathan Cook 4/17/22

Ritual and the Architecture of Isolation

What is at risk as we lose our way inside the broken liminal pathways of shared space?