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Jon Delogu</li> </a> <a href="/books/titles/twilight-of-the-anthropocene-idols"> <li> Twilight of the Anthropocene IdolsTom Cohen, Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller</li> </a> <a href="/books/titles/volumetric-regimes"> <li> Volumetric RegimesJara Rocha and Femke Snelting</li> </a> <a href="/books/titles/ways-of-following"> <li> Ways of FollowingKatve-Kaisa Kontturi</li> </a> <a href="/books/titles/writing-medium-machine"> <li> Writing, Medium, MachineSean Pryor and David Trotter</li> </a></ul> </nav> <div id="main" role="main"> <div id="main-header"><header> <h1>Thinking with AI: Machine Learning the Humanities</h1> edited by Hannes Bajohr</header></div> <div class="responsive-wrapper"> <img id="thumbnail" class="shadow" src="/book-covers/book-placeholder_cover_200x300.jpg" /> <ul class="caption"><li><a href="/books/series/technographies">Technographies</a></li><li>Published:&ensp;forthcoming</li> <li>ISBN:&ensp;978-1-78542-141-9</li><li>PDF ISBN:&ensp;978-1-78542-140-2</li></ul> </div> ForthcomingThis collected volume explores a novel approach to the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities, proposing that instead of merely writing about AI, scholars should think with AI. Rather than treating AI as an external subject of study, the essays explore how concepts from artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science can provide ways to rethink core humanistic questions of meaning, representation, and culture. Critical AI Studies typically focuses on AI鈥檚 societal implications鈥攊ts role in surveillance, exclusion, and global capitalism. This volume extends that critique, but also explores how AI brings our already existing understanding of aesthetics, language, history, and knowledge into relief and stands in an often productive conflict with them. AI鈥檚 pattern recognition and generative capabilities, for example, provokes new ways to grasp aesthetic unity, reimagine language as an autonomous system, and reconsider the boundaries between text and image. The essays illustrate how AI can be used as a productive metaphor and intellectual tool for the humanities. From formalizing concepts like Stimmung and vibe to challenging traditional distinctions between writing and thought or between history and data, the book shows how AI can be more than just an object of study but a conceptual catalyst that ignites unexpected connections to long-standing humanistic concerns. By engaging AI in this way, scholars can not only critique it but also expand the horizons of their own fields. <div> <h2>Editor Bio </h2> Hannes Bajohr is Assistant Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the history of German philosophy in the 20th century, political theory, and theories of the digital and AI. Bajohr鈥檚 academic texts have appeared in Configurations, Poetics Today, and New German Critique, among others. His most recent books are Schreibenlassen: Texte zur Literatur im Digitalen (Berlin: August, 2022), Ad Judith N. Shklar: Leben, Werk, Gegenwart (with Rieke Trim莽ev, Hamburg: EVA, 2024), and Digitale Literatur zur Einf眉hrung (with Simon Roloff, Hamburg: Junius, 2024); in 2025, his book Postartifizielle Texte: Schreiben nach KI will come out with Suhrkamp. Bajohr is also active as a writer of digital literature. His most work is the novel (Berlin, Miami) (Berlin: Rohstoff, 2023), which was co-written with a self-trained large language model. </div> <div> <h2></h2></div> </div> </div> <div id="site-footer"><footer> The content of this site is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License</a>. Images and other media may be under different licences. <a id="ibiblio-link" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/"><img src="/images/ibiblio-xs.gif" alt="Hosted by ibiblio" class="center" height="20" width="67" /></a> </footer></div></div> </body> </html>