Writing as an 18th-Century Automaton

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2026-04-20 DOI:10.1177/08944393261441268

Julie Park

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Abstract

This essay conceives artificial intelligence as a chapter in the history of writing through reconsidering the eighteenth-century automaton writer created by Jaquet Droz, a Swiss clock making workshop. As much an innovation in writing technology as it was an early example of artificial intelligence, the Jaquet Droz automaton writer reveals how artificial intelligence is a historical idea and material artifact deeply entangled with the history of writing, an embodied as well as deeply emotional form of cognitive activity and one of the oldest human technologies.

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写作就像一台18世纪的机器

这篇文章通过重新考虑十八世纪由瑞士钟表制造车间Jaquet Droz创造的自动作家，将人工智能视为写作史上的一章。雅克·德罗兹（Jaquet Droz）的自动机作家既是书写技术的创新，也是人工智能的早期例子，他揭示了人工智能是一种历史观念，是一种与书写历史深深纠缠在一起的物质产物，是一种具体的认知活动形式，也是一种深刻的情感形式，是人类最古老的技术之一。

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Social Science Computer Review 社会科学-计算机：跨学科应用

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

4.90%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Unique Scope Social Science Computer Review is an interdisciplinary journal covering social science instructional and research applications of computing, as well as societal impacts of informational technology. Topics included: artificial intelligence, business, computational social science theory, computer-assisted survey research, computer-based qualitative analysis, computer simulation, economic modeling, electronic modeling, electronic publishing, geographic information systems, instrumentation and research tools, public administration, social impacts of computing and telecommunications, software evaluation, world-wide web resources for social scientists. Interdisciplinary Nature Because the Uses and impacts of computing are interdisciplinary, so is Social Science Computer Review. The journal is of direct relevance to scholars and scientists in a wide variety of disciplines. In its pages you''ll find work in the following areas: sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, computer literacy, computer applications, and methodology.