The Irreducible Human
A book, forthcoming from De Gruyter Brill
A book on the irreducibly human in the age of language models — access shock, the amplifier and the bucket at full length. Forthcoming from De Gruyter Brill, with Kristian Guttesen.
The question that runs through everything I do — what is irreducibly human once machines can do the rest — gets its full treatment here. The book draws together the concepts I have been developing: access shock, the amplifier, the bucket each generation fills, the benevolent cage and sovereignty over one's own data.
It is written with Kristian Guttesen and is forthcoming from De Gruyter Brill. This is not a book about the technology itself but about humanity inside the technological turn — about governance, responsibility, and what must not be lost.
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