Writing Human in the Age of AI
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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, The Writing Self in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 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, and 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, The Writing Self in the Age of Artificial Intelligence illuminates the value of writing for the writer, as a process of thinking, feeling and self-discovery.
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Table of Contents
Authors' Note
Chapter One: Why we write
Chapter Two: A Wacky Scenario
Chapter Three: The Kate Chopin Experiment
Chapter Four: Countering the Commodification of Creative Writing
Chapter Five: Humanism and Anti-Humanism
Chapter Six: Posthumanism, Transhumanism and New Materialism
Chapter Seven: Spilt Ink
Chapter Eight: Writing human in the academy
Chapter Nine: Writing the unexpected
Chapter Ten: Writing phenomenological selves
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Product details
| Published | Jan 21 2027 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781350569225 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 8 b&w |
| Series | Research in Creative Writing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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