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Title: Alex Reid – professor of digital rhetoric, media, and artificial intelligence
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This understanding is as familiar as Plato. We didn’t need to wait for Foucault or Barthes or Derrida to recognize the category error in conflating writing with thinking. Until the printing press, human hands (and thus human thought) participated in acts of inscription. Writing required human cognition to move the pen (or whatever) across the page.
We managed to sa...
Understandably the work of documentary filmmakers faces new epistemological challenges in the wake of generative AI. There’s a good read: “Can you believe the documentary you’re watching?” by NY Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson th...
To follow on Jay Bolter, we might say we find ourselves in the late age of literacy. What replaces literacy as the medial-rhetorical substrate of academia? AI-generated literacy? With its feedback loop, AI generated literacy operates through the rectilinear, recursive attenuation of indeterminacy. Texts literally mean what the AI says they do, as does literacy itself.
...AI plus Computer Science is patient zero in the proliferation of AI plus degrees (e.g. AI and whatever). If you think that “AI and Computer Science” sounds like two versions of the same thing, then you are thinking the kinds of thoughts that terrify computer science departments. To be clear. Computer Science is a well-established and varied discipline. AI (at least in the con...
Intentional fallacy.
That’s really all it takes to open the problem. But we can then move through the death of the author, the death of the subject, symptomatic readings, and all the critical-theoretical approaches to symptomatology. The result is a humanistic approach that drastically mutes the artist’s claim to agency in art-making. It does not permit art...
