Hannes Bajohr

With programs such as ChatGTP, artificial intelligence has reached a level at which it is now scarcely possible to distinguish a text written by a computer from one written by a human being. For example, can you be certain that the text you are reading right now was not written by an algorithm?

This represents a real turning point in the way we read the written word. If we are...

When asked which contemporary philosopher he considered the most important, Hans Jonas answered more than once: Hans Blumenberg. Conversely, there were only few colleagues Blumenberg respected more than Jonas. Their correspondence, which spans almost 25 years, is a testament to their mutual esteem, but also to occasional tensions, and offers insights into the biographical and historical...

When everything is text, because everything is code, there is no more work, only wrought material, a semi-finished product. Images, films, sounds, words – in the digital world, everything is open...