Article ID: CBB689683764

"Do the New Poets Think? It's Possible": Computer Poetry and Cyborg Subjectivity (2018)

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This article examines the origins of computer-generated poetry, both as a thought experiment and as an aesthetic practice, with a focus on the works of the Stuttgart-based poet, theorist, philosopher, publisher, and professor Max Bense. My readings emphasize the ways in which computer-generated poems challenge fundamental assumptions about the relationship between language, technology, and subjectivity. In these works, the human subject emerges through a stochastic process of automated text generation, representing a form of cyborg subjectivity; Bense constructs the text itself as an interface of human and machine, an intersection of multiple modes of textual production.

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Authors & Contributors
LaGrandeur, Kevin
Crosthwaite, Paul
Goldfarb, José Luiz
Gunkel, David J.
Kang, Minsoo
Kilgore, D. W. D.
Journals
Science-Fiction Studies
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Routledge
The MIT Press
Drew University
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
University of California, Riverside
Concepts
Technology and literature
Artificial intelligence
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Science fiction
Machines
Science and literature
People
Asimov, Isaac
Carlyle, Thomas
Clarke, Arthur C.
Frayn, Michael
Homer
Husserl, Edmund
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Greece
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