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...N. Katherine Hayles Abstract The human aura is now being subverted by a variety of simulacra. OpenAI’s language-generation program GPT-3 illustrates the challenges of interpreting algorithmic-generated texts. This article advocates interpretive strategies that recognize the profound differences...

...Seb Franklin Of course, the problem of unattributable origin is not unique to self-refining algorithmic technologies. As Amoore notes, it is a “persistent and irresolvable ethicopolitical problem” (19) that was succinctly formulated by Michel Foucault ( 1998 ) in his essay “What Is an Author...

...Figure 2 Stephanie Dinkins, Secret Garden: Our Stories Are Algorithms . Installation view, On Love and Data exhibition, Stamps Gallery, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 31 to October 23, 2021. Photograph: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography ...

... lamenting the many ways that algorithms create echo chambers and political fragmentation. While this essay concurs that content-recommendation bubbles are exacerbated by new media technologies, early American novels suggest that people have been worrying about the regulation and isolation of information...

... and what I call algorithmic ahistoricity can also, more disturbingly, render meaning senseless. In doing so, GPT-3’s literary experiments are not “failed” because they do not meet some moving target of a literary standard, nor because of technological insufficiency, but because it can make it harder...

... games, which depend on character-based scripting and pathfinding algorithms, are more basic than the supervised and unsupervised learning of later neural networks. Historically, developers have often spent more resources on graphics than AI systems in order to appeal to consumers through visual delights...

... subject, mind, or central authority has complete knowledge of the world. This critique of liberal reason was one of the bedrocks for both the finance capital and algorithmic trading of our present and the layered neural network model now heavily in use. It also makes us recognize that AI...

... procedures. Addi- tive arithmetic on a linear game board (Traveller’s does not allow back- ward moves) comprises the algorithm, or the discrete input-output 6 American Literature structure, of the game. The spinning teetotum produces inputs and the rules of arithmetic produce consistent...

... Moments in Time, a set of 1 million three-second videos depicting actions associated with verbs. Pipkin watched them all; Lacework presents an algorithmically “upscaled” selection, which adds a blurring effect to simulate, perhaps, the tired eyes of digital piecework or, as with the abstract visages...

... Animals.’ ” Ezra Klein Show (podcast), March 30 . https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ted-chiang.html . Nobel Safiya . 2018 . Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism . New York : NYU Press . Susskind Daniel . 2020 . A World...

... generation (NLG) and natural language processing (NLP). The algorithmic generation of human (natural) language constitutes NLG, or, getting the computer to output intelligible and original texts or utterances. NLP entails the much larger field of treating the data of human language, within which...

... to flip the racial logics of the algorithmic—to ask, “Can Black life instead be viewed as generative, affirmative, and fundamental to a technically mediated life” (224). He finds an answer of sorts in indeterminacy and possibility, qualities that can be part of the ontology of the algorithmic, even...

... collage of languages, dialects, and social registers that makes up the vocabulary of the early US archive. This essay does not address every aspect of search. It does not deal with ranking algorithms, autocompletion, stopwords, or fuzzy matching, all of which have the potential to affect scholarship...

... by Silicon Valley and often critiqued in these texts—still sometimes shows up as an operational tendency in certain kinds of technological critique, for example, when physical machines or algorithms are blamed for disinformation on the web (“it is the algorithm!”), by and large scholarship today has migrated...

... Codes.” Throughout, Mattern shows that underneath the veneer of the computational, algorithmic, and artificially intelligent is a material, ecological, and cultural substratum that informs AI at the level of conceptual vocabulary: the tree, the graft, the dashboard. Smart cities are abstractions...

... to this twisted dilemma that the healthy carrier narrative, via the vehicle of COVID-19, has presented to us in America, but understanding the dilemma is surely important. In ethics, we make algorithms. But humans are not algorithms. And perhaps understanding that will be a meaningful first step toward bridging...

... fascistic” algorithm, part of the “smoothness of technol- ogy.” But why is it that new media and literature, information and mean- ing, are so frequently opposed? What work does separating them do— and what work goes into disentangling them? Most importantly, what American Literature, Volume 85...

... . Galloway Alexander R. 2006 . Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Gapper Michael . 2008 . “ Braid: Breaking the Rules of Game Design .” Xbox World 360 Magazine , August 6 . www.computerandvideogames.com/194727/features/braid/ . Hansen...

... as much control over their data profiles as they do over financial markets. Sure, we can post only the most prudent pics under the most restrictive security settings or pick only the most prudent investments, but ultimately, the algorithms and systems that govern both are largely opaque (see Pasqual 2015...