Tag: media studies
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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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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 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.