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<p>And to complete the look back <span
style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">over the books
published by Open Humanities Press in 2025...</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">April </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">saw the publication of </span>Thinking
with AI, edited by Hannes Bajohr: <br>
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href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/thinking-with-ai/">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/thinking-with-ai/</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">And March, </span><i>Masked
Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial
Creative Intelligence </i>by Gary Hall<br>
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href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/</a>
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Thinking with AI, edited by Hannes Bajohr: <br>
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href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/thinking-with-ai/">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/thinking-with-ai/</a>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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Editor Bio <br>
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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 recent
work is the novel (Berlin, Miami) (Berlin: Rohstoff, 2023), which
was co-written with a self-trained large language model. <br>
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Like all Open Humanities Press books, Thinking with AI is
available open access (and can be downloaded for free): <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/thinking-with-ai/">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/thinking-with-ai/</a></p>
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<p><i>Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of
Artificial Creative Intelligence </i>by Gary Hall<br>
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href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm"><span
style="color:windowtext">Book description</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"
style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">If
we want a socially and environmentally just future, do we need a
radical new theory of change – or to radically change theory? It’s
this question Gary Hall and his collaborators have been addressing
for over twenty years with experimental publishing projects such
as Open Humanities Press, Liquid and Living Books, and the
Culture-Led Re-Commoning of Cities. Unsettling received ideas of
the author and the book, originality and copyright, real and
artificial intelligence, these uncommon communities of
theorist-mediums are testing the ‘non-modernist-liberal’ modes of
creating and sharing knowledge enabled by various media
technologies, from writing and print, through photography and
video, to computers and GenAI. By thinking outside the masked
black box that renders Euro-Western knowledge-making practices
invisible – keeping the human ontologically separate from the
nonhuman, be it animals, the planet or algorithmic machines – they
show there’s no such thing as the human, the nonhuman already
being in(the)human.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"
style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i>Masked
Media</i> is one such experimental project. It is not a
‘human-authored’ work. Instead, the thinking within it has been
generated by a radically relational assemblage that includes AI
and more. Although the book appears under a real name – ‘Gary
Hall’ – which, like Banksy and Karen Eliot, acts as a mask, it is
not the intellectual property of a singular human individual, and
is published under a Collective Conditions for Re-Use licence to
reflect this. <i>Masked Media</i> shows how such norm-critical
experimentation is of vital importance to our understanding of
everything, from identity politics and the decolonisation of
knowledge, through epistemologies of the Global South and the
possibilities of open city infrastructure, to extractive
capitalism, planetary destruction and the Anthropocene. It thus
constitutes a call to radically redesign theory for a time of
multiple crises.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"
style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">In <i>Masked
Media</i>, a follow-up to <i>A Stubborn Fury</i>, Hall proceeds
to show how our ways of writing and working can be reinvented to
produce a more socially just future after the years of austerity
and the coronavirus pandemic.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"
style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Author
bio</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"
style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Gary
Hall is an experimental critical theorist working at the
intersection of digital culture, politics and technology. He is
Professor of Media at Coventry University, UK, where he served as
founding director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures from 2017
to 2025. He is the author of a number of books, including <i>A
Stubborn Fury</i> (Open Humanities Press, 2021), <i>Pirate
Philosophy</i> (MIT Press, 2016) and <i>The Uberfication of the
University</i> (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).</p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a>
Blog: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/</a>
Latest:
Journal issue: Ecologies of Dissemination issue of PARSE Journal #21 - Summer 2025, edited by Eva Weinmayr and Femke Snelting: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination">https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination</a>. (I'm one of the contributors to this experimental issue which emphasizes collective over individual authorship.)
Video: 'Liquidate AI Art', Computer Arts Society: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art">https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art</a>
Talk: 'The Independent Intellectual vs Posting Zero and the Dead Internet': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/12/2/the-independent-intellectual-vs-posting-zero-and-the-dead-in.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/12/2/the-independent-intellectual-vs-posting-zero-and-the-dead-in.html</a>
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