Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Our MLA session on Theorizing Agentive AI Infrastructures with Daniella Gati, Xuenan Cao, Junting Huang, Katherine Johnston, and Amit Ray mla.confex.com/mla/2027/mee... 020
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Our MLA 2027 session on AI Models in/as Cultural Imagination with @hannesbajohr.de, Kate Hayles, @sethperlow.bsky.social and @zentralwerkstatt.org mla.confex.com/mla/2027/mee... 0101
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Dear Ms. Rogers, The line is perfect, And you, And my writing. Emil, 5 ❤️ 020
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A propos of another literary prize scandal, here is our paper looking at popular art and generative AI in terms of media theory in relation to market incentives. @kabirahuja2431.bsky.social @jivatneet.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... 0124
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026asked a 5yo and a 3yo to sketch their idea for our Halloween pumpkins, and they delivered. very scary 030
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Delivering dinosaurs for exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science. Arthur Pollock, 1984 052
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This one is for @mattseybold.bsky.social! Courtesy of my silly 6yo. 231
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Vojnich is perfect for AI to crack, but here we are. 120
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I appreciate the editor who put the submission deadline into my calendar. Nice, thoughtful gesture! 000
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026All academic writing should be open access. Especially since libraries are not buying physical books anymore. 071
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Liminality is the most productive way of AI exploration (IMO), and Pierre Hugyhe is the king of liminality. Thanks to @ranjodhdhaliwal.com for snapping these at Fondation Beyeler! 071
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Coming out: Encounters with AI and First Encounters with AI ☺️ 130
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Very alluring tables in historical linguistics! Beautiful to see. escholarship.org/uc/item/8608... 110
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One of 700 pages of Accent in Hittite. By Alwin Kloekhorst. 131
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Jean-Pierre Serre turned a 100 years old! Here's what he said many years ago about learning math. It still holds, even in the time when the machine does math better than us. Math is closer to the pursuit of art. This is what the recent Leiden Declaration on AI and Math defended. 010
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Siblings are finally united! What is writing and reading in the time of AI? Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Sheila Heti, Sasha Stiles, James Yu, and other amazing writers reflect and offer new possibilities. @uofmpress.bsky.social 1127
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Asimov's Laws of Robotics were a narrative plot for the robots to fail and don't translate into ethics. We propose a new set of laws: 071
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In the Daily Cal today on the use of AI in public communications. With @emilymbender.bsky.social and @richjaro.bsky.social www.dailycal.org/everyone-use... 021
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When a paper becomes a piece of art. We’re exhibiting our Latent Spacecraft GAN models with @metahaven.bsky.social @begus.bsky.social at the Hidden Layers exhibition. Come see the artworks at the Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley. The opening reception is today, 9/3, and we run until 10/3. 052
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A new scholarly book on narrative and AI that builds on artificial humanities 🤙 030
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A genuinely funny read when PARRY, a paranoid patient bot, met the psychotherapist bot ELIZA, as arranged by the Internet evangelist Vint Cerf in 1972. It ends by PARRY getting billed $399.29 for the session. 020
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026LCTLs = less commonly taught languages From the MLA: www.mla.org/Resources/Gu... 000
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We’re addressing the Authors Guild’s Human Authored Certification Mark in the new issue of @pw.org My take is we need more nuance than human vs. machine-authored. Every text after 2022 is potentially AI-touched, just as every iPhone photo is computationally mediated. Transparency matters. 160
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026An excerpt from Jasmin B. Frelih's essay in First Encounters with AI (press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firs...), describing the reading of Finnegans Wake as "unlocking a superpower." 021
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026We're excited to announce Artificial Humanities book series at the University of Exeter Press!💈 We invite book proposals that carry humanistic inquiry into the artificial, from ancient automata to contemporary AI and beyond. www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/... 1213
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Adriatic Coast and Isola & Cappodistria (Koper) by Piri Reis, 16th century 030
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 08/07/2026What's interesting about the whale vowel discovery is the use AI models as a prevention tactics against the researcher's tendency to anthropomorphize--only to discover that the whales don't have some alien stuff going on but rather have vowels like us! Searched for alien language, found vowels. 092
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Artificial Humanities in Pierre Huyghe’s catalogue from the current exhibition at Fondation Beyeler. 010
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 03/07/20263. A potential new layer to study LLMs in their global scope through the world literature framework, based on Moretti’s distant reading approach, Damrosch’s pragmatic optimism (canon, hyper canon, shadow canon; glocalisms), and Apter’s concept of untranslatability. We have a CfP out for this one! 032
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 03/07/20262. The critical theory layer that reflects on issues such as monolingualism of LLMs and revoked the structuralism v poststructuralism wars from the 20th century. I discuss structural monolingualism of LLMs with its two faces: surface monolingualism and synthetic monolingualism. 230
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026It looks at three layers: 1. The embedded layer of literary experimentation with computing, realted tor linguistic and reasoning evaluation (the Turing test, Winograd Schema, Scripts, Story Cloze Test, etc.) 110
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Preparing this session for the MLA in LA this January. Can't wait! @sethperlow.bsky.social @hannesbajohr.de 041
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Artificial humanities in the July issue of Monocle On the irreplaceable value of humanity in the age of AI monocle.com/business/tec... 030
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026We have the digital and physical galley available for those who’d like to review First Encounters with AI: Writers on Writing. Let me know, and I’ll connect you to the press editor 061
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Undesired visitors get a rock or hot sap onto their heads from the opening above the entrance. 050
