I am an Associate Professor in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley. My work brings together German intellectual history, literary theory, and media studies, with a current emphasis on how large language models and generative AI are reshaping the conditions of writing, interpretation, and textual culture. I am especially interested in the ways computational systems produce new expectations of style, voice, and meaning—and in what these shifts reveal about older philosophical debates on language and the human, from Hans Blumenberg to twentieth-century philosophical anthropology. Alongside my scholarship, I work as an author of generative literature and have published experimental texts with the writers’ collective 0x0a, including the AI-assisted novel Berlin, Miami (2023). I am currently developing projects on “post-artificial writing” and “negative anthropology,” and, together with Nina Beguš, I co-lead the research initiatives The Latent Spaces of Culture and NarrAItion: Bridging the Humanities and AI.
Blanks: Word Processing is out now – the English translation of my book of poems, Halbzeug: Textverarbeitung. It was published by Counterpath Press in Nick Montfort’s Using Electricity series. A book launch will take place on November 21 at Room & Board, Brooklyn. You can buy the book here. The book also got two very…