{"product_id":"language-machines-cultural-ai-and-the-end-of-remainder-humanism-volume-74-9781517919320","title":"Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism Volume 74","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow generative AI systems capture a core function of language\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Looking at the emergence of generative AI, \u003ci\u003eLanguage Machines\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as widely believed, but rather creates culture. This evolution in language, he finds, is one that we are ill-prepared to evaluate, as what he terms \"remainder humanism\" counterproductively divides the human from the machine without drawing on established theories of representation that include both. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To determine the consequences of using AI for language generation, Weatherby reads linguistic theory in conjunction with the algorithmic architecture of LLMs. He finds that generative AI captures the ways in which language is at first complex, cultural, and poetic, and only later referential, functional, and cognitive. This process is the semiotic hinge on which an emergent AI culture depends. Weatherby calls for a \"general poetics\" of computational cultural forms under the formal conditions of the algorithmic reproducibility of language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Locating the output of LLMs on a spectrum from poetry to ideology, \u003ci\u003eLanguage Machines\u003c\/i\u003e concludes that literary theory must be the backbone of a new rhetorical training for our linguistic-computational culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13590967\"\u003eLeif Weatherby\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517919320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517919320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-COM\"\u003eComputers\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-COM004000\"\u003eArtificial Intelligence | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC071000\"\u003eTechnology Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-COM\"\u003eComputers\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-COM079000\"\u003eSocial Aspects\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Leif Weatherby is associate professor of German and founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eTransplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48455866417389,"sku":"9781517919320","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_fbfc2db5-6c8e-43bf-a748-ac58fa089c70.jpg?v=1753537137","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/language-machines-cultural-ai-and-the-end-of-remainder-humanism-volume-74-9781517919320","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}