Atlas of Anomalous AI maps humanity's relationship to intelligence across history and speculation, assembling philosophers, science fiction writers, AI systems, and visionary artists into a hyperdimensional argument about what intelligence has always been and what it is becoming.
About This Book
This is not a book about artificial intelligence in the conventional sense — no neural network diagrams, no Silicon Valley mythologising. Instead, Atlas of Anomalous AI treats intelligence as a deep cultural phenomenon, tracing it from ancient knowledge systems through dreams and science fiction to contemporary machine learning. Key texts on modelling, prediction, and automation sit alongside surrealist imagery and mystical traditions, constructing a genuinely surprising intellectual cartography. For designers, architects, and theorists grappling with AI not as a tool but as a condition of contemporary practice, this anthology resists easy answers and rewards slow reading. The result is a volume that positions AI within the full breadth of human — and inhuman — cognition.
Key Features
- 312 pages of densely illustrated essays, fiction, and visionary artworks spanning ancient to emergent knowledge systems
- Contributors include Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Jorge Luis Borges, Benjamin H. Bratton, Federico Campagna, Arthur C. Clarke, Rana Dasgupta, Nora N. Khan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Matteo Pasquinelli, and texts generated by GPT-2 and GPT-3
- Artworks by Anni Albers, William Blake, Ian Cheng, Hilma af Klint, Pierre Huyghe, C. G. Jung, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Casey Reas, and others
- Published by Cosmogenesis
What You'll Discover
- How modelling, prediction, and automation connect contemporary machine intelligence to much older epistemological traditions
- The role of surrealism, dreams, and mystical vision — from Hildegard of Bingen to Ithell Colquhoun — in shaping how we imagine non-human cognition
- Science fiction as a genuine intellectual framework for understanding AI, with contributions from Borges and Clarke sitting alongside contemporary theorists
- What it means to include GPT-2 and GPT-3 as named contributors — and what that gesture implies about authorship, knowledge, and machine subjectivity
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 312
- Dimensions: 230 x 170 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781838003999
- Publisher: Cosmogenesis
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, designers, and cultural theorists seeking a critical, historically grounded framework for thinking through AI beyond the technological — and anyone drawn to the intersection of machine intelligence, art, and speculative thought.