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1. The Birth of the Algorithmic Author: NLG Systems as Tools and Agents

   Natural language generation (NLG) – when computers produce text-based output in readable human languages – is becoming increasingly prevalent in our modern digital age. This paper will review the ways in which an NLG system may be framed in popular and scholarly discourse: namely, as a tool or as an agent. It will consider the implications of such perspectives for general perceptions of NLG systems and computer-generated texts. Negotiating claims made by system developers and the opinions of ordinary readers amassed through empirical studies conducted for this research, this paper delves into a theoretical and philosophical exploration of questions of authorial agency related to computer-generated texts, and by considering whether NLG systems constitute tools for manifesting human intention or agents in themselves.

   Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 17.11.2019 - 13:42

2. Treatise on Vegetable Logic: Technical Edges for History’s Illiterate

   My work is an ongoing studio of experiments thinking about where writing can occur. After migrating from the page to the computer, it travelled between social sites back into installations, performances and laboratory media. My exploration of what I see as an explosion of technical spaces has led me to think about the tendency underneath that, an industrialized scientific method, as the chief writing medium of our time. Technology and computers yes, but this is held up by the material-knowledge spaces that incubate their growth - this tangible grounding moves the technological into biological space.

   While biotechnology is an extension or an epistemological contextualizing of technology, it is also a marked regression. Inscription itself starts largely in biotechnologies and continually returns to its materials. This coupled with the accelerationist destiny of drowning the new as the old, makes for a techne both ephemeral and nonsemantic. It is this newness and tradition, meaninglessness and evocative saturation that makes the biomaterial both entirely cumbersome in an archival sense and yet persistently present.

   Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 24.11.2019 - 14:54

3. Ghosts in the Machine: The Personal Rational on the Fringes of Digital Literature

   This paper will start by exploring Platonic Formalism as Techne without instantiation. In a concurrently anti-aesthetic and morally rationalist manner, Plato's space for any artistic enactment requires a social engagement utilizing a logical method. This is mathematics without technology, or the semantics of the structured without any methodology for construction and preservation. Analytically speaking, we are given a dialogic picture of the ghost in the machine.

   This phrase, used critically by Gilbert Ryle to take apart the mental dualism of Descartes, can contrast with Kierkegaard's appreciation of the thinker - that is, the personal reasoning of Descartes, Socrates debating himself (as he often does). Rationalism takes the form of logical structures that roam the imaginary and hypothetical, a sheerly literary game (Kierkegaard's first stage) in a manner described by absence. A negative machinic aesthetics.

   Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 24.11.2019 - 15:04