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Meet the Author with Hannes Bajohr: (Berlin, Miami)
Online Reading and Discussion|Online Reading and Discussion
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- Language German
- Price Free entry
- Part of series: #MeetTheAuthor - International Book Club
On 4 November 2025 at 7pm, the author Hannes Bajohr will be a guest at #MeetTheAuthor. The discussion will be led by Mercedes Bunz, professor in Digital Culture and Society at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. The event will take place online and in German. As always, participation is free of charge and everyone is welcome.
Depth and nonsense
Literary scholar Hannes Bajohr has long been intensively engaged with the relationship between literature and digital technology. With his debut novel (Berlin, Miami), he leaves gray area behind and puts to the test whether AI is capable of telling stories. With the help of several AI language models, he has created a challenging and unwieldy text that can also serve as an experiment in reflecting on one's own reading experience. The AI's narrative style oscillates between profundity and nonsense—it invites readers to break away from their reading habits and expectations and embark on a literary adventure.
Bio
Hannes Bajohr
Author
Hannes Bajohr, born in Berlin in 1984, is an author, philosopher and literary scholar. Together with Gregor Weichbrodt, he is part of the text collective for digital conceptual literature 0x0a. As a scholar, he works on theories of the digital, political theory and philosophical anthropology. His most recent publications are the volumes Digitale Literatur zur Einführung (2024) together with Simon Roloff and the novel (Berlin, Miami) (2023), which Bajohr wrote together with a self-trained AI model. Schreiben nach KI (together with Ann Cotten), a survey of authors on the use of AI in literature, will be published soon. Bajohr is an assistant professor in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Berkeley.
Mercedes Bunz
Mercedes Bunz is a professor in Digital Culture and Society at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. She studied Philosophy, Art History, and Media Studies at the FU Berlin and the Bauhaus University Weimar, and wrote her thesis on ‘The history of the internet-driven by a deep curiosity about digital technology'. Until today, she has not been disappointed by the transforming field that is digital technology, which provides her reliably with new aspects to think constantly about.
At the moment, that is Artificial Intelligence and ‘machine learning’. Delving into the topics of AI and ‘machine learning’, Bunz co-leads the Creative AI Lab, a collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London. Her latest publications are 'How Not to Be Governed Like That by Our Digital Technologies' in The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics, edited by K. Thiele, B. Kaiser, T. O’Leary (Rowman & Littlefield) and with Claudia Aradau 'Dismantling the apparatus of domination? Left critiques of AI' in Radical Philosophy. Her last publication about AI was „Thinking Through Generated Writing“ in a volume edited by Hannes Bajohr: Thinking with AI: Machine Learning the Humanities, Open Humanities Press.