“Neither the image belongs to me, nor the memory it comes from, nor the software that calculates it,” Enis Maci writes in her essay on AI and image manipulation in Reader 7. “The only thing that somehow belongs to me is the prompt.”

Join us for the launch of our seventh issue at the Klosterruine, near Alexanderplatz, and listen as we debate with authors and fellow travelers whether—and how—it is still possible to bring something genuinely new into the world today.

Eric Otieno Sumba discusses how Mahmood Mamdani’s portrait of two Ugandan presidents challenges misrepresentations of East Africa. Enis Maci investigates AI and authorship, taking a close look at an authentic, then falsified and propagandistically contested cover of the Italian magazine L’Espresso. And Emily Greenhouse, editor of The New York Review of Books, joins us and the critic Merve Emre to discuss the crisis of writing in the age of infocracy.

Four guests, three panels. Enis Maci begins in German, followed by Eric Otieno Sumba and then Emily Greenhouse in conversation with Merve Emre, both in English.

Admission is free.

Never Young—The Launch of Berlin Review Reader 7

With Emily Greenhouse, Merve Emre, Enis Maci, Eric Otieno Sumba, BR Editors & Friends

July 3, 7–9:30 p.m.
Klosterruine Berlin-Mitte
Klosterstr. 73a