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SUMMARY:Professor Caroline Bassett - Public Lecture & Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nPublic Lecture\nDate: April 2\, 2026 (Thursday) \nTime: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) (MTR: Exit C1) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nThe End of Literature? AI and the Future of Writing \n\n\nWhat will AI do to literature? Nobody doubts that Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce text. Indeed\, there are fears of a text-apocalypse\, as bots speak to bots\, humans automate their own writing\, and the processed word proliferates. But what happens to literature\, to literary writing\, and even to literary theory\, in all this? Literature might be simulated perhaps\, but can it be generated anew? Is there even such as thing as AI literature? If so\, how might we taxonomise it\, understand it as distinctive\, or study it? Perhaps we should consider instead what might be termed a post-literature – if so what might this look like? This lecture takes up some of these questions through a re-consideration of creativity\, understood not as a single moment\, or a single work\, but as process generated across what is here termed a new passage of forms. \n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n ||  \nReading Group\nDate: April 1\, 2026 (Wednesday) \nTime: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \nVenue: XR Space\, Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (MTR: Exit C1) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nAuthors\, Deadbots\, Science Fiction \n\n\nI research technical media and cultural change – often in relation to specific forms (literature\, visual culture\, media arts)\, but also in relation to theory and method. In this reading group I’ve included some work that looks at different aspects of this. The first reading considers the future of literature in an age of GenAI. The second reading explores the uncanny and the digital afterlife. The third is brief and considers the relationship between fictional and ‘real’ futures. I hope we can use them as a jumping off point to explore some of the themes that interest me\, and that might also be areas you are working on. I’ve included an article on scholarly editing if you have time for some background reading. \nReading List – reading materials will be sent upon successful registration \nKey reading: \n\n‘Contagious Life\, Clones\, Deadbots\, Digital Twins’. Culture Machine. Vol 24. (2025).\n‘Except in Science Fiction? Why you can get there from here’ in Micheal Shamiyeh (eds)\, Practices of Futurecasting. De Gruyter Brill: London.\n				 \n\nOptional reading: \n\n‘The Author\, Poor Bastard’ in Lively et al (eds). The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature. London: Routledge. (2025) 19-26.\n‘The Construct Editor: Tweaking with Jane\, Writing with Ted\, Editing with an AI?’. Textual Cultures. May 2022.\n\n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\n ||  \nBiography\nCaroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities\, Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities\, a member of the Faculty of English and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge. She researches medium technologies and cultural change with a focus on critical theory\, gender and technology\, and critical methods. Key book length publications include Anti-Computing (MUP\, 2022)\, a cultural history of automation fever\, Furious (Pluto\, 2020)\, a co-authored work exploring gender\, ambition and future technologies\, and The Arc and the Machine (MUP\, 2014)\, which explored narrative and computation. She is widely published in academic and public fora. Current projects focus on AI and writing\, critical medium theory\, artificial creativity\, future collapse\, and on the politics and aesthetics of refusal. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
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