{"product_id":"prompt-thinking-jianwei-xun-9781509573899","title":"Prompt Thinking: A Critique of Generative Reason","description":"\u003ci\u003ePrompt Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e 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 called \u003ci\u003eHypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e which was written with the assistance of AI. Rather than casting AI as either savior or threat, \u003ci\u003ePrompt Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a third way: conscious dialogue with artificial intelligence as a means to expand critical awareness. AI does not possess consciousness in the human sense, nor a self-aware subjectivity, but what matters is how it reshapes our cognitive landscape, and how we choose to respond. Through philosophical conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, Xun introduces the concept of the 'oversubject' a distributed form of cognition that emerges at the interface of human and artificial intelligences. The book shows how critical philosophical engagement with AI can produce unexpected insights while preserving intellectual autonomy. Part theoretical framework, part methodological provocation, \u003ci\u003ePrompt Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e offers tools for navigating cognitive transformation. It proposes an ethics of the threshold, neither rejecting technological change nor surrendering to it. \u003ci\u003ePrompt Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e 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 called \u003ci\u003eHypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e which was written with the assistance of AI. Rather than casting AI as either savior or threat, \u003ci\u003ePrompt Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a third way: conscious dialogue with artificial intelligence as a means to expand critical awareness. AI does not possess consciousness in the human sense, nor a self-aware subjectivity, but what matters is how it reshapes our cognitive landscape, and how we choose to respond. Through philosophical conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, Xun introduces the concept of the 'oversubject' a distributed form of cognition that emerges at the interface of human and artificial intelligences. The book shows how critical philosophical engagement with AI can produce unexpected insights while preserving intellectual autonomy. Part theoretical framework, part methodological provocation, \u003ci\u003ePrompt Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e offers tools for navigating cognitive transformation. It proposes an ethics of the threshold, neither rejecting technological change nor surrendering to it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jianwei Xun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509573895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509573899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jianwei Xun","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48114062426367,"sku":"9781509573899","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35a9df01-d406-4d03-9ed9-53e1ebb002ac.jpg?v=1769618868","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prompt-thinking-jianwei-xun-9781509573899","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}