Hannes Bajohr
Biographic Data
| ID | 510938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannes Bajohr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Bajohr |
| SIGNATURE | BAJOHR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berkeley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8554-6261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dumb Meaning: Machine Learning and Artificial Semantics
L’ Ekphrasis opératoire: L’effondrement de la distinction texte/image dans l’intelligence artificielle multimodale
Le domaine numérique déploie ce que l’on pourrait appeler une ekphrasis opérationnelle : les textes n’y représentent pas des images, mais les exécutent en les mettant en œuvre de manière informatique. Correspondant à deux approches différentes, l’une connexionniste, l’autre séquentielle, deux types distincts d’ ekphrasis opératives, impliquant deux notions distinctes du langage peuvent être dégagées : l’une mettant l’accent sur une dimension prag…
Cohesion Without Coherence: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Form
Commentary on “I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again”
"I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again"
"I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again" by Hannes Bajohr, translated by Kayla Rose van Kooten
Operative ekphrasis: The collapse of the text/image distinction in multimodal AI
This article discusses the implications of multimodal artificial intelligence (AI), including image generators such as DALL·E, for the traditional concept of ekphrasis. Using ekphrasis as an example of ‘thinking with AI’, it takes up the suggestion that in the digital realm ekphrastic relationships should be understood as performative rather than representational. Since with the introduction of modern AI the digital realm needs to be divided into…
A Note on Blumenberg's Beschreibung des Menschen
Description of the Human (Beschreibung des Menschen) was not published during Hans Blumenberg's lifetime; a posthumous compilation from two separate manuscripts by editor and former Blumenberg student Manfred Sommer, it was issued by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2006. It is based on lectures on the German tradition of philosophical anthropology that Blumenberg gave at the University of Münster in 1976–77 and 1980–81. Since Blumenberg did not date his lectu…
On Artificial and Post-artificial Texts: Machine Learning and the Reader's Expectations of Literary and Non-literary Writing
With the advent of ChatGPT and other large language models, the number of artificial texts we encounter on a daily basis is about to increase substantially. This essay asks how this new textual situation may influence what one can call the "standard expectation of unknown texts," which has always included the assumption that any text is the work of a human being. As more and more artificial writing begins to circulate, the essay argues, this stan…
Description of the Human
This extract is the first English translation of Hans Blumenberg's posthumous publication Beschreibung des Menschen, which was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2006. Based on lectures concerning the German tradition of philosophical anthropology that Blumenberg gave at the University of Münster, the book's basic project is the explicit fusion of Husserlian phenomenology with philosophical anthropology - an attempt to grasp what the human is by ide…
Posthuman?: Neue Perspektiven auf Natur/Kultur
Gegenwärtig etabliert sich in den Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften eine neue Denk- und Forschungsrichtung, die eine folgenreiche Blickverschiebung auf den Menschen, seine Stellung in der Welt, seine Selbstbeschreibung und seine Zentralstellung in den Wissenschaften propagiert. Bei aller Unterschiedlichkeit eint diese posthumanistischen Ansätze, dass sie eine humandezentrierende Perspektive einnehmen, etablierte dualistische Sichtweisen …
Publicking/Privating: The Gestural Politics of Digital Spaces
The distinction between public and private spheres has become increasingly blurred in the digital age. As more aspects of life move online, where information is potentially visible to anyone, traditional barriers dividing public and private realms dissolve. This creates a default condition of publicness for much online activity. In response, Internet users have developed novel ways of demarcating contexts as more public or more private through "g…
Blumenbergs Verfahren: Neue Zugänge zum Werk
Dieser Band widmet sich den philosophischen wie literarischen Verfahren, die Hans Blumenberg in seinen Texten zur Anwendung bringt, und eröffnet so neue Zugänge zu seinem Werk. Hans Blumenbergs Werk ist mit einer Theorie des Mythos, der Metapher und der Epochenumbrüche, technikphilosophischen Reflexionen, literaturtheoretischen Überlegungen und literarischen Glossen ungewöhnlich vielgestaltig. Die Beiträge des Bandes begegnen diesem Umstand, inde…
Negative Anthropologie: Ideengeschichte und Systematik Einer Unausgeschöpften Denkfigur
The Vanishing Reality of the State: On Hans Blumenberg's Political Theory
While many interpreters of Hans Blumenberg have searched The Legitimacy of the Modern Age or Work on Myth for hints of a political theory, there is still no in-depth discussion of the only essay published during his lifetime that deals directly with political theory, "The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State," which appeared in May 1968. This article reconstructs that essay's main arguments and contextualizes it in the "historical pheno…
Unburdening from the Absolute: In Memory of Hans Blumenberg
First delivered as a short laudatory speech on the occasion of Hans Blumenberg receiving the Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose in 1980, this essay by the German philosopher Odo Marquard served as a eulogy at a memorial event for Blumenberg after his death in 1996. Marquard, who was a colleague of Blumenberg's at the University of Giessen between 1965 and 1970, offers one of the first and still most influential attempts at condensing Blumenbe…
Introduction: Hans Blumenberg at 101
Algorithmic Empathy: Toward a Critique of Aesthetic AI
With artificial intelligence making inroads into the arts, a critique of aesthetic AI still needs to be written. To this end, this article argues that first, one must do away with the "Promethean anxiety" that assesses machine-created works by the standards of human-made ones, and second, one must turn to the technical substrate of such works for criteria of aesthetic critique. The article takes digital literature as an example and suggests a dis…
Negative Anthropologie: Begriffe, Spielarten, Gegenstände
Judith Shklars Kritik des Legalismus
Bibliographie: Benhabib, Seyla/Linden-Retek, Paul: Judith Shklars Kritik des Legalismus, übersetzt von Hannes Bajohr mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Autor*innen, der Aufsatz erscheint auf Englisch als: „Judith Shklar’s Critique of Legalism“ in: The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law, hg. v. J. Meierhenrich und M. Loughlin, Cambridge, i.E., ZPTh – Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, 2-2018, S. 179-192. https://doi.org/10.3224/zpth.v9i2.03
Gewissen und Freiheit
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Shklar, Judith N.: Gewissen und Freiheit, aus dem Amerikanischen von Hannes Bajohr, ZPTh – Zeitschrift fur Politische Theorie, 2-2018, S. 167-177. https://doi.org/10.3224/zpth.v9i2.02
History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader
Der Anthropos im Anthropozän: Die Wiederkehr des Menschen im Moment seiner vermeintlich endgültigen Verabschiedung
Xander Kirke. Hans Blumenberg: Myth and Significance in Modern Politics
Judith N. Shklar über die Quellen liberaler Normativität
Hans Blumenberg’s Early Theory of Technology and History
The Unity of the World: Arendt and Blumenberg on the Anthropology of Metaphor
Hannah Arendt and Hans Blumenberg are usually only considered as intellectual opponents on the topic of secularization. This article shows that despite obvious differences, not least on Arendt's interpretation of Eichmann, a much more substantial connection obtains between them in their approach to metaphor. A shared critique of Heidegger led them to arrive independently at a "negative anthropology," which rejects the idea of human essence and re…
Introduction: Hans Blumenberg at 101
On Artificial and Post-artificial Texts: Machine Learning and the Reader's Expectations of Literary and Non-literary Writing
With the advent of ChatGPT and other large language models, the number of artificial texts we encounter on a daily basis is about to increase substantially. This essay asks how this new textual situation may influence what one can call the "standard expectation of unknown texts," which has always included the assumption that any text is the work of a human being. As more and more artificial writing begins to circulate, the essay argues, this stan…
The Vanishing Reality of the State: On Hans Blumenberg's Political Theory
While many interpreters of Hans Blumenberg have searched The Legitimacy of the Modern Age or Work on Myth for hints of a political theory, there is still no in-depth discussion of the only essay published during his lifetime that deals directly with political theory, "The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State," which appeared in May 1968. This article reconstructs that essay's main arguments and contextualizes it in the "historical pheno…
Hans Blumenberg’s Early Theory of Technology and History
The Unity of the World: Arendt and Blumenberg on the Anthropology of Metaphor
Hannah Arendt and Hans Blumenberg are usually only considered as intellectual opponents on the topic of secularization. This article shows that despite obvious differences, not least on Arendt's interpretation of Eichmann, a much more substantial connection obtains between them in their approach to metaphor. A shared critique of Heidegger led them to arrive independently at a "negative anthropology," which rejects the idea of human essence and re…
The Unity of the World: Arendt and Blumenberg on the Anthropology of Metaphor
Hannah Arendt and Hans Blumenberg are usually only considered as intellectual opponents on the topic of secularization. This article shows that despite obvious differences, not least on Arendt's interpretation of Eichmann, a much more substantial connection obtains between them in their approach to metaphor. A shared critique of Heidegger led them to arrive independently at a "negative anthropology," which rejects the idea of human essence and re…
Judith N. Shklar über die Quellen liberaler Normativität
Hans Blumenberg’s Early Theory of Technology and History
Judith Shklars Kritik des Legalismus
Bibliographie: Benhabib, Seyla/Linden-Retek, Paul: Judith Shklars Kritik des Legalismus, übersetzt von Hannes Bajohr mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Autor*innen, der Aufsatz erscheint auf Englisch als: „Judith Shklar’s Critique of Legalism“ in: The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law, hg. v. J. Meierhenrich und M. Loughlin, Cambridge, i.E., ZPTh – Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, 2-2018, S. 179-192. https://doi.org/10.3224/zpth.v9i2.03
Gewissen und Freiheit
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Shklar, Judith N.: Gewissen und Freiheit, aus dem Amerikanischen von Hannes Bajohr, ZPTh – Zeitschrift fur Politische Theorie, 2-2018, S. 167-177. https://doi.org/10.3224/zpth.v9i2.02
History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader
Der Anthropos im Anthropozän: Die Wiederkehr des Menschen im Moment seiner vermeintlich endgültigen Verabschiedung
Xander Kirke. Hans Blumenberg: Myth and Significance in Modern Politics
Negative Anthropologie: Begriffe, Spielarten, Gegenstände
Blumenbergs Verfahren: Neue Zugänge zum Werk
Dieser Band widmet sich den philosophischen wie literarischen Verfahren, die Hans Blumenberg in seinen Texten zur Anwendung bringt, und eröffnet so neue Zugänge zu seinem Werk. Hans Blumenbergs Werk ist mit einer Theorie des Mythos, der Metapher und der Epochenumbrüche, technikphilosophischen Reflexionen, literaturtheoretischen Überlegungen und literarischen Glossen ungewöhnlich vielgestaltig. Die Beiträge des Bandes begegnen diesem Umstand, inde…
Negative Anthropologie: Ideengeschichte und Systematik Einer Unausgeschöpften Denkfigur
The Vanishing Reality of the State: On Hans Blumenberg's Political Theory
While many interpreters of Hans Blumenberg have searched The Legitimacy of the Modern Age or Work on Myth for hints of a political theory, there is still no in-depth discussion of the only essay published during his lifetime that deals directly with political theory, "The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State," which appeared in May 1968. This article reconstructs that essay's main arguments and contextualizes it in the "historical pheno…
Unburdening from the Absolute: In Memory of Hans Blumenberg
First delivered as a short laudatory speech on the occasion of Hans Blumenberg receiving the Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose in 1980, this essay by the German philosopher Odo Marquard served as a eulogy at a memorial event for Blumenberg after his death in 1996. Marquard, who was a colleague of Blumenberg's at the University of Giessen between 1965 and 1970, offers one of the first and still most influential attempts at condensing Blumenbe…
Introduction: Hans Blumenberg at 101
Algorithmic Empathy: Toward a Critique of Aesthetic AI
With artificial intelligence making inroads into the arts, a critique of aesthetic AI still needs to be written. To this end, this article argues that first, one must do away with the "Promethean anxiety" that assesses machine-created works by the standards of human-made ones, and second, one must turn to the technical substrate of such works for criteria of aesthetic critique. The article takes digital literature as an example and suggests a dis…
Posthuman?: Neue Perspektiven auf Natur/Kultur
Gegenwärtig etabliert sich in den Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften eine neue Denk- und Forschungsrichtung, die eine folgenreiche Blickverschiebung auf den Menschen, seine Stellung in der Welt, seine Selbstbeschreibung und seine Zentralstellung in den Wissenschaften propagiert. Bei aller Unterschiedlichkeit eint diese posthumanistischen Ansätze, dass sie eine humandezentrierende Perspektive einnehmen, etablierte dualistische Sichtweisen …
Publicking/Privating: The Gestural Politics of Digital Spaces
The distinction between public and private spheres has become increasingly blurred in the digital age. As more aspects of life move online, where information is potentially visible to anyone, traditional barriers dividing public and private realms dissolve. This creates a default condition of publicness for much online activity. In response, Internet users have developed novel ways of demarcating contexts as more public or more private through "g…
Dumb Meaning: Machine Learning and Artificial Semantics
L’ Ekphrasis opératoire: L’effondrement de la distinction texte/image dans l’intelligence artificielle multimodale
Le domaine numérique déploie ce que l’on pourrait appeler une ekphrasis opérationnelle : les textes n’y représentent pas des images, mais les exécutent en les mettant en œuvre de manière informatique. Correspondant à deux approches différentes, l’une connexionniste, l’autre séquentielle, deux types distincts d’ ekphrasis opératives, impliquant deux notions distinctes du langage peuvent être dégagées : l’une mettant l’accent sur une dimension prag…
Cohesion Without Coherence: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Form
Commentary on “I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again”
"I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again"
"I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again" by Hannes Bajohr, translated by Kayla Rose van Kooten
Operative ekphrasis: The collapse of the text/image distinction in multimodal AI
This article discusses the implications of multimodal artificial intelligence (AI), including image generators such as DALL·E, for the traditional concept of ekphrasis. Using ekphrasis as an example of ‘thinking with AI’, it takes up the suggestion that in the digital realm ekphrastic relationships should be understood as performative rather than representational. Since with the introduction of modern AI the digital realm needs to be divided into…
A Note on Blumenberg's Beschreibung des Menschen
Description of the Human (Beschreibung des Menschen) was not published during Hans Blumenberg's lifetime; a posthumous compilation from two separate manuscripts by editor and former Blumenberg student Manfred Sommer, it was issued by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2006. It is based on lectures on the German tradition of philosophical anthropology that Blumenberg gave at the University of Münster in 1976–77 and 1980–81. Since Blumenberg did not date his lectu…
On Artificial and Post-artificial Texts: Machine Learning and the Reader's Expectations of Literary and Non-literary Writing
With the advent of ChatGPT and other large language models, the number of artificial texts we encounter on a daily basis is about to increase substantially. This essay asks how this new textual situation may influence what one can call the "standard expectation of unknown texts," which has always included the assumption that any text is the work of a human being. As more and more artificial writing begins to circulate, the essay argues, this stan…
Description of the Human
This extract is the first English translation of Hans Blumenberg's posthumous publication Beschreibung des Menschen, which was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2006. Based on lectures concerning the German tradition of philosophical anthropology that Blumenberg gave at the University of Münster, the book's basic project is the explicit fusion of Husserlian phenomenology with philosophical anthropology - an attempt to grasp what the human is by ide…
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