Image: 978-0980544008 – Ferdinand Altenburg, 2024
b2o: an online journal is pleased to announce the publication of EXOCRITICISM, a special issue edited by Arne De Boever and Frédéric Neyrat. In fourteen contributions that cut across the critical and the creative, the issue responds to the exigency that the rise of Artificial Intelligence poses to those who read and write. Ranging from (among other forms and themes) micro-fiction to travelogue, electric consciousness to xenoecology, spontaneous note to prophecy, and including original visual works, EXOCRITICISM explores critical thinking and writing at the limits of the academic journal, away from pre-patterned centers of interpretation and evaluation. A design print-book based on the special issue is forthcoming.
Elmar Schenkel, “The Conspiracy of the Electricians”
Arne De Boever, “The Essay vs. AI: On the Literary Value of Criticism”
Darko Vukić, “EXOCRITICISM After the Demon”
Pierre Cassou-Noguès (text), Gwenola Wagon (images), “Eye See ‘NK Sehr Forreye Ame: On the Appropriation of DBT by AI”
Will Alexander, “A Spontaneous Note On EXOCRITICISM”
Nick Nauman, “Is Driving”
Anna Longo, “The Inhuman, All Too Human”
Andrew Wenaus, “What is Patamathematical Poetry?”
Steven Swarbrick, “XENOECOLOGY: Encounters with Alien Life”
Brian Evenson, “Sometimes on The Teletubbies”
Andrew Levy, “Presences Stir”
Nathan Brown, “Elemental History: Zumthor after Hölderlin”
DX Aminal and Lera Winehouse, “aillelujah?”
Frédéric Neyrat, “Prophecies in the Fog”