Text Machines
Text Machines
This chapter investigates the so-called death of the author, arguing that the proclaimed reallocation of power from author to reader is a betrayal of the discourse theory. It examines the quality of mechanic authorship, or authorship through the use of text generators, by discussing how innovative automated text generation is. It concludes that one may declare the death of the reader rather than the death of the author.
Keywords: discourse theory, machinic authorship, text generators, text machines, digital literature
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