Index

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: AI between Cognition and Culture 1

1. How the Humanities Lost Language: Syntax, Statistics, and Structure 41
2. The Eliza Effect Goes Global: Intelligence as Simulacrum 79
3. TheSemiological Surround, or How Language Is the Medium of Computation 101
4. Large Literary Machines 123
5. Computational Meaning: For a General Poetics 139
6. Poetic Ideology: The Packaged Semantics of Generative Culture 173

Conclusion: Language as a Service, or the Return of Rhetoric 195
Notes 213 
Bibliography 233
Index 249

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