Prompt Thinking: A Critique of Generative Reason

Author:   Jianwei Xun
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781509573899


Pages:   162
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Format:   Paperback
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Prompt Thinking: A Critique of Generative Reason


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Prompt Thinking explores how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the nature of thought. In the age of generative AI, prompting becomes more than a technical instruction: it emerges as a philosophical practice. This book arises from an experiment with AI in which the fictional philosopher Jianwei Xun sparked global debate by publishing a book about power and perception in the digital age. That book, Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality, was written with the assistance of AI. Rather than casting AI as either savior or threat, Prompt Thinking proposes a third way: conscious dialogue with artificial intelligence as a means to expand critical awareness. The book shows how critical philosophical engagement with AI can produce unexpected insights while preserving intellectual autonomy. Part theoretical framework, part methodological provocation, Prompt Thinking offers tools for navigating cognitive transformation. It proposes an ethics of the threshold, neither rejecting technological change nor surrendering to it.

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Author:   Jianwei Xun
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
ISBN:  

9781509573899


ISBN 10:   1509573895
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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""What if prompt thinking were more than a command? What if it became the canvas? In Prompt Thinking, Jianwei Xun turns dialoguing with AI into a creative lab where philosophy, art, and technology cross-pollinate. Neither utopian nor dystopian, the book shows how prompting opens new forms of expression from co-authored narratives to emergent voices while keeping human autonomy at the core. Thinking becomes making. Language becomes performance."" Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of MediaDuemila and Osservatorio TuttiMedia


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Jianwei Xun is a hybrid philosophical entity created through the collaboration of human and artificial intelligence.

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