{"product_id":"the-inspiration-machine-9780226828336","title":"The Inspiration Machine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this moment when generative AI is being declared the successor to human creativity, Wilf offers us a vital counternarrative. His nuanced ethnographic investigations challenge myths of autonomy in either creative practitioners or computational machines while insisting on the cultural\/historical embeddedness and situated practices of meaning-making. This book should become an obligatory reference for anyone speaking about computational creativity.” * Lucy Suchman, author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Inspiration Machine\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully unsettles both commonplace imaginaries and banal critiques of how digital technology shapes and reshapes contemporary art-making. Along the way it clearly establishes Wilf as anthropology’s leading theorist of modernity’s vexed relationship to creative practice.” * Steven Feld, VoxLox Media Arts *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Inspiration Machine\u003c\/i\u003e is itself a model and an inspiration, a highly original and ethnographically rich exploration of digital art-making. Drawing upon three revelatory case studies—and on a broad and subtle engagement with contemporary theory—Wilf illuminates the complex mutual entanglement of machinic creativity with human practices, aesthetics, and sociality. This is a singular study of emergent relationalities in unexpected places and practices and wonderful to think with.” * Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Computational Creativity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I Jazz: Mimicry, Originality, Sociality\u003cbr\u003e 1 “I Prefer Playing with It to Playing with Most People”: The Computer as a Musical Conversation Partner\u003cbr\u003e 2 An Island of Interactivity in an Ocean of Nonreactivity: The Trade-Offs of a Made-to-Order Artificial Musical World\u003cbr\u003e 3 “A Device That Would Generate New Musical Ideas”: The Computer as a Source of Musical Inspiration\u003cbr\u003e 4 Separating Noise from Signal: The Ethnomethodological Uncanny as Aesthetic Pleasure in Human-Machine Interaction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART II Poetry: Indeterminacy, Potentiality, Intentionality\u003cbr\u003e 5 Computer-Generated Poetry and Some of Its Aesthetic and Technical Dimensions\u003cbr\u003e 6 “I Randomize, Therefore I Think”: Computational Indeterminacy and the Tensions of American Liberal Subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e 7 Analog Precursors and Their Digital Logical End: The Oulipo\u003cbr\u003e 8 Crosscurrents and Opposing Perspectives\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Neither Our Doom nor Our Salvation: Open-Ended Digital Systems and Cultural Critique\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732932145495,"sku":"9780226828336","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226828336.jpg?v=1719999003","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-inspiration-machine-9780226828336","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}