death by AI literacy
Death by Powerpoint has been a cautionary tale since the term was coined in 2001. We all still experience it, perhaps we even practice it. (It has its uses.) The rhetorical deadly nature of Powerpoint was named 14 years after it was released in 1987, but it was experienced almost immediately upon its use. Death…
AI media deter our situation
In my current work, one of the core tasks is a radical, media-archaeological study of the medial temporality arising from/as the operation of AI. How might we describe the epistemological and ontological conditions of this temporal medium? I can’t go into all that here of course. But one upshot should be recognizable. The purpose of…
the day AI was born: a parable
AI emerged one Tuesday after tea, when the fellows in computer science—having fallen out over a dispute concerning who, precisely, had not been contributing to the kitty—resolved to settle the matter in the only way that seemed both civil and professionally respectable. They decided to see whether it might be possible to compute the square…
the late age of rhetoric and composition
In the early nineties, Jay Bolter observed the arrival of a late age of print the presaged not an end to print per se, but an end to viewing print as necessary. That is, our ability to imagine a world within print, changed print. Of course, even 10-15 years ago, I would think the majority…
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Alex Reid, professor of digital rhetoric, Media & Artificial Intelligence 