Nina Beguš
@ninabegus
UC Berkeley & InterpretAI Editor of the Artificial Humanities series www.ninabegus.com
An excerpt from Jasmin B. Frelih's essay in First Encounters with AI (press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firs...), describing the reading of Finnegans Wake as "unlocking a superpower."
We're excited to announce Artificial Humanities book series at the University of Exeter Press!💈 We invite book proposals that carry humanistic inquiry into the artificial, from ancient automata to contemporary AI and beyond. www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/...
Adriatic Coast and Isola & Cappodistria (Koper) by Piri Reis, 16th century
What's interesting about the whale vowel discovery is the use AI models as a prevention tactics against the researcher's tendency to anthropomorphize--only to discover that the whales don't have some alien stuff going on but rather have vowels like us! Searched for alien language, found vowels.
Artificial Humanities in Pierre Huyghe’s catalogue from the current exhibition at Fondation Beyeler.
3. A potential new layer to study LLMs in their global scope through the world literature framework, based on Moretti’s distant reading approach, Damrosch’s pragmatic optimism (canon, hyper canon, shadow canon; glocalisms), and Apter’s concept of untranslatability. We have a CfP out for this one!
2. The critical theory layer that reflects on issues such as monolingualism of LLMs and revoked the structuralism v poststructuralism wars from the 20th century. I discuss structural monolingualism of LLMs with its two faces: surface monolingualism and synthetic monolingualism.
It looks at three layers: 1. The embedded layer of literary experimentation with computing, realted tor linguistic and reasoning evaluation (the Turing test, Winograd Schema, Scripts, Story Cloze Test, etc.)
Preparing this session for the MLA in LA this January. Can't wait! @sethperlow.bsky.social @hannesbajohr.de
Artificial humanities in the July issue of Monocle On the irreplaceable value of humanity in the age of AI monocle.com/business/tec...
We have the digital and physical galley available for those who’d like to review First Encounters with AI: Writers on Writing. Let me know, and I’ll connect you to the press editor
Undesired visitors get a rock or hot sap onto their heads from the opening above the entrance.
Predjama castle from the 13th century. It’s connected to a system od caves, which can be used to provide the castle with resources when under attack.
Romance department at Harvard used to offer a popular course on soccer. They even invited Maradona as a guest speaker, and as far as I recall, he obliged!
Another review of Leif's book that brings up ArtHum :) I think this is a real, and only, way forward:
The International Conference on Computational Creativity is hosting an Artificial Humanities workshop on narratives and AI. computationalcreativity.net/iccc26/works...
Artificial Humanities sneaked into Jonathan Basile's review of Leif Weatherby's Language Machines :) olrsupplement.com/2026/06/01/w...
A strong book review in Configurations! "Artificial Humanities establishes the method; the next chapters remain to be written by readers equipped with Beguš's tools for uncovering mythological infrastructures embedded in systems too often taken as purely technical." @uofmpress.bsky.social