Technotext: Text and Technology in Literature, Linguistics and Media

Abstract

This special issue of interface brings together articles that engage with the nexus of text and technology from both historical and contemporary perspectives. These articles were prompted by recent debates concerning generative Artificial Intelligence and its possibilities, as well as a series of broader shifts in academic discourses that these debates have occasioned within a range of humanistic disciplines. This general theme was already the topic of the journal’s recent flagship conference, interfaceing, held at National Taiwan University in August 2024, with the title “From the Invention of Writing to the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: Cultural Approaches to Information Technology”. We welcome in this special issue several articles born out of the stimulating conversations that took place at that time, as well as several contributions that engaged these topics independently in a way that enriched and at times even challenged the perspectives that took center stage during the conference.