A hallucinatory near-future dystopia, cowritten with an AI, about language on the verge of collapse. "I was dead but also wasn't. And with that, I had also understood what happened to my father."
(Berlin, Miami) is an experimental novel written in collaboration with a language model, fed four German novels, and translated from the German by Noah Harley. In it, Hannes Bajohr presents, in Dadaistic fashion, a near-future Miami and Berlin populated by characters caught up in a world reshaped by an undefined catastrophe called THE DIFFERENCE. Real or hallucinatory objects and creatures--the jawling, Vapor Pools, co-yoga--appear and reappear. The prose, absurd and often hilarious, moves between social realism, bureaucratic report, and dream logic, deteriorating by the end into garbled tokens and multilingual fragments, closing on the literal string .
The novel continues the long tradition of experimental writing that has used formal disruption to challenge the limits of narrative: Burroughs' cut-up, the Language poets, Ballard, Acker, and the generative fictions of electronic literature. But
(Berlin, Miami) is and isn't a book about AI; it's a book made from what AI does to language. For experimental literature readers--fans of Dalkey Archive and Fitzcarraldo Editions--the novel is a rigorous formal achievement in a tradition they already value. For the broader cultural conversation about AI and authorship, it offers one of the first major examples of collaboration with a language model as a principle of literary form.
一部與 AI 共同創作、關於瀕臨崩潰的語言的迷幻近未來反烏托邦小說。
「我死了，但又沒有死。而且就在那一刻，我也明白了父親身上發生的事。」
（柏林，邁阿密）是一部與語言模型合作寫成的實驗小說。該語言模型以四部德文小說作為輸入，並由 Noah Harley 從德文翻譯而來。Hannes Bajohr 以達達主義的手法，描寫一個近未來的邁阿密與柏林；這兩座城市裡住著一群人物，他們被捲入一個由名為 THE DIFFERENCE 的未定義災難所重塑的世界。真實或幻覺般的物件與生物——jawling、Vapor Pools、co-yoga——反覆出現。小說的散文風格荒誕而往往令人捧腹，在社會寫實、官僚報告與夢境邏輯之間游移；到了結尾，文字逐漸崩解為混亂的 token 與多語言片段，最後以字面上的字串 收束。
這部小說延續了實驗性寫作的悠久傳統：透過形式上的破壞，挑戰敘事的界限，包括 Burroughs 的剪貼技法（cut-up）、語言詩人（Language poets）、Ballard、Acker，以及電子文學中的生成式小說。但（柏林，邁阿密）既是、也不是一本關於 AI 的書；它是一本由 AI 對語言所造成的影響生成的書。對實驗文學讀者——Dalkey Archive 與 Fitzcarraldo Editions 的書迷——而言，這部小說在他們珍視的傳統中，展現了嚴謹而出色的形式成就。至於更廣泛的 AI 與作者身分討論，它則提供了首批重要範例之一，示範如何將與語言模型的合作本身，作為文學形式的基本原則。
Hannes Bajohr is a poet, essayist, and Assistant Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarly work focuses on German intellectual history, theories of the digital, and the confluence of AI and literature; his literary work includes computational poetry and prose.
