NEWS
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New book: Introduction to digital literature
With Simon Roloff, I wrote an introduction to digital literature for the famed Junius Verlag’s Zur Einführung series. From the publisher’s announcement: Digital technology is fundamentally changing the way we think about what literature is, how it is created, and how it functions. This volume introduces the technical foundations, poetology, history and theory of a […]
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The Subject of Writing: On Large Language Models
This is a rough translation of the introduction to the collected volume “Das Subjekt des Schreibens: Über Große Sprachmodelle” [The Subject of Writing: On Large Language Models].
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New Volume: The Subject of Writing
The special volume of Text+Kritik with the title “The Subject of Writing: On Large Language Models,” edited by Moritz Hiller and myself, was published today.
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Rhetoric as Codec: Machine Learning and the Facilitation of Reading and Writing (With an Aside About Surfing and Riding)
This is a translation of a short intervention I was invited to contribute to “Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft”.
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N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
I am delighted that the Electronic Literature Organization has recognized my essay “On Artificial and Post-Artificial Texts: Machine Learning and the Reading Expectations Towards Literary and Non-Literary Writing” with the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature this year.
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New volume: Quellcodekritik
Today, the collected volume Quellcodekritik: Zur Philologie von Algorithmen – edited by Markus Krajewski and myself – is published with August Verlag (German). There is an Open Access PDF free for download here. From the description: Algorithms determine our situation. From Google’s PageRank algorithm to the automatic allocation of loans, their logic intervenes in our […]
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New book: Ad Judith N. Shklar
Today is the publication date of “Ad Judith N. Shklar: Werk – Leben – Gegenwart,” co-written by Rieke Trimçev and me, with Europäische Verlagsanstalt.
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New Novel: (Berlin, Miami)
On November 2, my German language novel (Berlin, Miami) – written in cooperation with a self-trained large language model – was published by Rohstoff Verlag. I reported on the making-of in July in Tagesspiegel (German). From the publisher’s description: “The world in Hannes Bajohr’s (Berlin, Miami) is all that is the case for an AI […]
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New Installation: Prognostications
For the exhibition “Data Alchemy – Observing Patterns from Galileo to Artificial Intelligence”, curated by Liat Grayver and Adrian Notz at the Collegium Helveticum, I contributed the installation “Prognostications”.
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New Text: Dumb Meaning
I published an essay about what I call “dumb meaning” – the kind of limited, not quite human meaning that large language models and multimodal AI processes. While not meaningful in broad sense, I argue, it is not meaningless either.