[Commlist] new book: Thinking with AI - Machine Learning the Humanities

Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press's Technographies
series:

Thinking with AI, edited by Hannes Bajohr:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/thinking-with-ai/

This edited 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’s societal implications—its
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’s
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 not 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.

With essays by Peli Grietzer, Leif Weatherby, Mercedes Bunz, Hannes
Bajohr, Fabian Offert, Lev Manovich, Babette Babich, Markus Krajewski,
Orit Halpern, Christina Vagt and Audrey Borowski.


Editor Bio

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’s 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
Trimçev, Hamburg: EVA, 2024), and Digitale Literatur zur Einführung
(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.


Like all Open Humanities Press books, Thinking with AI is available open
access (and can be downloaded for free):

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/thinking-with-ai/



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