Artificial Territories: A New Literary Cartography
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authorship; cyberliterature; artificial intelligence; Pedro Barbosa.Abstract
Based on Pedro Barbosa’s essay Cyberliterature, Artificial Intelligence and the Creation of Meaning (2002), this paper aims to reflect on the reconfiguration of the role of the author brought about by the automation of writing and, consequently, on what might be at stake in the future of literature. Transposing Pedro Barbosa’s considerations to the present day, the essay assesses the growing use of Artificial Intelligence and how this relationship, challenging the boundaries of the human and highlighting the limits of language, requires a deep meditation, both ethical and epistemological, on literary creation.
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