Looking back: for all their exuberances I enjoy that Ong, McLuhan, Kittler, etc are oriented to discontinuity in media history. Other, more sober historicisms are great too but they can tend toward "there is nothing new under the sun". Obviously something is very new in AI; we need to know what/how.
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Ryan Heuser
Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
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