The Unalgorithmic Self

Art, AI, and the Future of Human Thinking

By: Ritu Raj

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Hardcover | 16 October 2026

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244 Pages

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A machine can answer a question. Only a human can wonder.

A machine can predict a pattern. Only a human can break one.

What does it mean to remain fully human in an age shaped by intelligent machines?

When AI entered everyday life, the conversation split into promise or threat: productivity, replacement, disruption. Somewhere in that noise, the human question was quietly lost. In The Unalgorithmic Self, painter Ritu Raj returns to it.

Across thirty chapters on the body, emotion, memory, imagination, identity, uncertainty, love, ethics and art, Raj names the part of human life that refuses reduction: the fact that your life has an inside. A profile may approximate your tendencies, but it cannot contain your becoming. A model may predict your next click, but it cannot witness the quiet moment when you decide to change.

Drawing on Arendt, Levinas, Nussbaum, Heidegger and Hans Jonas, and on a working life spent both in the studio and in building technology, this is not a book against AI. It is a book about remembering ourselves. The question is not whether machines will become more human, but whether humans will remember what makes them human.

Written openly in conversation with an AI model, with the ideas and the values firmly the author's own, it is a book for anyone who uses these tools and wants to remain the author of their own life.

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