From Madeleine to Kaya Toast; Keeping the Author Alive
A taste of madeleine and tea caused unconscious memories of Proust’s childhood to surface to his conscious mind. Without knowing…
[Response] The Chinese Room, AI, and Authorship
In her article, “The Chinese Room, AI and Authorship,” Claire explores authorship in context with the Chinese Room experiment. She…
[Response] Reflection on Peters “Law, Literature and the Vanishing Real”
In response to Simon (Si Yue) Wu’s post on August 24th: When considering the first era, humanism, your example of…
[Response] Are we too hung up on authorship?
In her blog post on September 4, Madeline Linder reflects on Barthes and the act of separating a text from…
The Chinese Room, AI, and Authorship
The Chinese room is a famous thought experiment by philosopher John Searle. In it, he posits the situation in which…
“L’art pour l’art”: Provenance or proof?
In our discussions about authorship and provenance, an idea in the form of a spectrum was decidedly manifested, governed by…