Hannes Bajohr—a writer and scholar—is an Associate Professor in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley. His 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. He is especially interested in the ways computational systems produce new expectations of style, voice, and meaning—and what these shifts reveal about older philosophical debates on language and the human, from Hans Blumenberg to twentieth-century philosophical anthropology.
Alongside his scholarship, he is an author of generative literature and has published experimental texts with the writers’ collective 0x0a, including the AI-assisted novel (Berlin, Miami) (forthcoming in English translation2027). He is currently developing projects on “post-artificial writing” and “negative anthropology.” Together with Antonio Somaini, he leads the research initiative The Latent Spaces of Culture, and, with Jill Walker Rettberg, the project NarrAItion: Bridging the Humanities and AI (both in collaboration with Nina Beguš).
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…