discourse.cpp O.S. le Si (edited by Aurélie Herbelot)

摘要

There’s no doubt that the piece “Gender” is provocative and revealing, but is ita “good” poem? Perhaps the collection teaches us that, with the ever-increasing intertwinement of human and digital computer that results in the displacement of the human as sole reader—-writer now that the computer is also a reader—writer alongside (and often in collaboration with) the human, these sorts of judgments of “good” and “bad” are no longer appropriate. Once the human is no longer the sole creator and no longer in control of the final artistic or literary artifact, then we are left to judge only the process in place of judging the product; with regard to discourse.cpp, it is a process we do not have direct access to.