Reading
Writing Culture and AI

Tue, 30.04.2019
6:00 PM

In a world where intelligence is also labelled as artificial, many questions arise concerning the production of texts and which will possibly change the reader.
Martin Schäuble and Mark O'Connell, two authors who live in, and reflect upon, a world of technological possibilities, read from their works and talk about the relationship between man and machine in terms of intelligence.

Martin Schäuble/Robert M. Sonntag studied politics in Berlin, Israel, and Palestine, and received his doctorate from FU Berlin. He has worked as a journalist and editor. In addition to his non-fiction works, to date three of his novels have appeared: Endland; The Scanners; and The Scanned. Both his novels and his non-fiction works have been nominated for numerous awards. Deutschlandfunk named Black Box Jihad and The Scanners on its list of the best 7 books for younger readers.

Mark O'Connell is a writer who lives in Dublin. He was awarded his PhD in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin. He was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at TCD and taught contemporary literature. His book To Be a Machine was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and was the recipient of the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize. He is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, and the Guardian.