NEWS
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Max Bense, “On Natural and Artificial Poetry” (1962)
A rough translation of Max Bense’s prescient essay “On Natural and Artificial Poetry” from 1962.
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On Artificial and Post-Artificial Texts
This is a condensed version of my Walter Höllerer Lecture. It discusses the changed reading expectations after ChatGPT.
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Recent Media Outreach
My most recent appearances in the (German) media.
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New Text: Is it guaranteed human-made?
For Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, I wrote about ChatGPT and what might happen once future AI models produce text that is no longer identifiable as machine-made. An essay on postartificial texts, Ouroboros literature, and the label guaranteed human-made.
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14th Walter Höllerer Lecture 2022
On Thursday, Dec. 8, I gave the Walter Höllerer Lecture at the Technical University of Berlin on “Artificial and Postartificial Texts: Literature and Artificial Intelligence.” Excerpt: “[We are] today already really on the threshold of being surrounded by texts that have been artificially produced – while at the same time we continue to grow ever […]
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Hildesheim Poetics Lecture 2022
At the invitation of the University of Hildesheim, I gave the Hildesheim Poetics Lecture on November 15. The lecture as an institution was “initiated with the idea to make the work processes of established writers accessible and to make their materials, their processes and thoughts about the literary business tangible. A stage just for the […]
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New Text: Dumb Meaning: AI and Artificial Semantics
In my new essay in the November issue of Merkur, I write about the paradox that while great AI models are unintelligent, they can process semantics to some extent – they can process stupid meaning. You can read the German text here and an English translation here.
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New Title: RENGA ANGER
Today, RENGA ANGER, my latest (German language) volume of poetry is published by edition taberna kritika, Bern. Anna Luhn was kind enough to write the afterword. From the publisher’s website: The story goes like this: In 1969, poets Octavio Paz, Jacques Roubaud, Edoardo Sanguineti and Charles Tomlinson meet in a Parisian hotel basement and write […]
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Two (Half) New Publications
Completely new: The exchange of letters between Hans Jonas and Hans Blumenberg (German) I edited for Suhrkamp with Bernadette Böhler-Herrmann (under her editorship, it will come out as part of the Jonas complete works published by Rombach). Here you can find the review by Jürgen Goldstein in the FAZ (scroll all the way down), here […]
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Essay on AI Art
For Swiss publication Republik, I wrote about AI art. You can read it here.