Contemporary Perspectives on AI and Narrative

Contemporary Perspectives on AI and Narrative is an interdisciplinary collection of articles by humanities theorists, digital authors, and artists examining how artificial intelligence intersects with storytelling, creativity, and culture in the post-transformer era. The collected essays span electronic literature, digital humanities, literary studies, digital anthropology, media art, game studies, pedagogy, and visual art.

The collection is grounded in the history of electronic literature — computational experimental writing with roots stretching back to the beginnings of the computer — but considers narrative beyond the literary to encompass language, history, folklore, publishing, pedagogy, gaming, painting, and more. Rather than assessing whether human authors outperform machines, it focuses on how digital authors and artists are actively engaging, both critically and creatively, with generative AI platforms, and what new critical insights might emerge from those encounters.

The collection aims to establish an alternative to normative literary and sociological analysis by decentering commercial model assessment, foregrounding actual experimental practice, and theorizing the AI ecosystem as it interfaces with authorship and narrative today.

Articles are published individually as they clear production rather than all at once, so this list grows. Every article is open access.