Call for Proposals:

AI Politics: A New Interdisciplinary Book Series
To be published by: Intellect and University of Chicago Press
https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/ai-politics-series-cfp-2025.pdf

Edited by Andrew Hoskins (University of Edinburgh) and Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Deadline for submissions: [not included in cfp]

We invite proposals for a new interdisciplinary book series, AI Politics, which will interrogate and shape debate on the social, political, and epistemological transformations wrought by artificial intelligence. This series provides a critical platform for researchers engaging with the emergent realities of AI — not speculative futures, but the immediate and ongoing contests over knowledge, data, information, power, identity, privacy, memory, economy, war, and resistance in the digital era.

The series is animated by an urgent need for epistemic authority in an environment dominated by accelerated technological change and discursive volatility. AI systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, DALL·E, Google Gemini, and Stable Diffusion embedding into everyday life, demands rigorous interdisciplinary, evidence-led inquiry, to illuminate the how, the why, and the ends.

AI Politics welcomes contributions that address key thematic areas including (but not limited to):

• AI and democratic trust
• Generative AI and memory
• Surveillance and data justice
• AI in warfare and security ecologies
• AI and activist politics.

Each book in the series will contribute to mapping and critiquing the political logics, historical continuities, and sociotechnical imaginaries shaping AI today. We are particularly interested in scholarship that disrupts dominant narratives and reimagines how AI might be governed, contested, or transformed.

The series is open to a range of formats and lengths to ensure responsiveness to emerging debates and accessibility to diverse academic and policy audiences. These include:

• Short form and Agenda-setting texts (30,000 and 60,000 words) that respond to critical events and policy shifts or reorient scholarly and public discourse;
• Full-length monographs (50,000+ words) presenting comprehensive research and theoretical contributions;
• Textbooks that redefine or re-map fields of study for students and instructors in the AI era.

We encourage proposals from scholars across disciplines including (but not limited to): political science, sociology, media studies, science and technology studies (STS), philosophy, international relations, communication, law, and digital humanities. We particularly welcome voices from underrepresented groups and regions.

To submit a proposal or express interest, please contact the series editors with a brief abstract (300–500 words), author biography, and indicative table of contents. Full proposal guidelines can be provided upon request.

AI Politics is not just a series—it is a critical intervention in how we come to understand and live with AI. Join us in shaping this essential conversation.

Contact:

Professor Andrew Hoskins
andrew.hoskins@ed.ac.uk

Professor Ben O’Loughlin
ben.oloughlin@rhul.ac.uk

Intellect Books:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/