Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance by Miles C. ColemanEnglish | EPUB (True) | 2026 | 176 Pages | ISBN : 1643364588 | 1.8 MB
A new framework for understanding how algorithms influence
Web applications offer us conclusions about science. Twitter bots generate art. Machine-learning systems satirize politicians. We live in an era where a substantial share of our private and public communication is machinic. Modern computing machines cannot yet speak for themselves—although the capacities of AI are rapidly expanding—but they generate rhetorical energies as they give advice, entertain, and proffer insight, speaking to human concerns in more-than-human ways and guiding human action.