|
|
books
| book details |
Writing Human in the Age of AI
By (author) Dr Paul Williams, By (author) Dr Shelley Davidow
|
|
| on special |
normal price: R 2 661.95
Price: R 2 528.95
|
| book description |
An investigation at the intersection of the writer and artificial intelligence, this book makes a case for the centrality and validity of the uniquely human ‘writing self’ against a backdrop of ubiquitous AI-generated material. With Pandora’s Box irreversibly open, Writing Human in the Age of AI decodes how creative writers encounter AI, comparing AI and human-generated texts, digging into the theories and philosophies underpinning this paradigm shift towards the posthuman, and ultimately putting forward a radical manifesto for navigating creative endeavor in the future. Looking at how AI performs complex creative writing tasks, how creative writing has become commodified, and how through posthumanist, transhumanist and new materialist theories humans have become ‘hackable’, Paul Williams and Shelley Davidow reassert the humanness of creative endeavor by rejecting a disembodied ‘subject’. Instead, they posit the need for a creative, performative, author-centered/process-writing 'self' that is changed by its own journey. Blending memoir with essay and poetry to perform the writing self they outline, the authors highlight what is unique about human creativity: serendipity, failure, synchronicity, experiential phenomenology. They also explore what they term ‘supra consciousness’, a transcendent, non-hackable, innately human connected community with a shared story. Hopeful, engaging and addressing important concerns in the field, Writing Human in the Age of AI illuminates the value of writing for the writer, as a process of thinking, feeling and self-discovery.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published date | 18 Feb 2027
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 168
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-3505-6919-5
Readership Age |
BISAC | computers / artificial intelligence
| other options |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 4 209.95
Price | R 3 998.95
| on special |
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
This is indeed a story of mercy and the redemption it offers.
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
Emil Coetzee, a civil servant in his fifties, is washing blood off his hands when the ceasefire is announced.
|
|
|
|
