Category: Allgemein
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Two new projects funded
Together with Nina Beguš from the Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, I received the Peder Sather Grant and the France-Berkeley Fund Grant for two projects on cultural AI.
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New volume: Thinking with AI: Machine Learning the Humanities
Just published, after some preparation: The open-access edited volume on AI as an “intuition pump,” which I edited, is now available.
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New translation: Judith N. Shklar, Wählen und Verdienen
Already last December, my German translation of Judith N. Shklar’s American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion (1991) was published under the title Voting and Earning: On American Citizenship and the Quest for Inclusion.
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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.
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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 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 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…