Writing topic
Writing topicCreative Labor and Authorship
Authorship, agency, selfhood, and cultural production when media and machines become collaborators.
Everybody's Smart · 3
Everybody's Smart
3 postsAI copies the style, not the work
Older copying duplicated the work. AI copies the style, not the work — so what fades is the aura of the making, the sense that a way of seeing belonged to one person.
AI can be an author
Barthes said the author is dead: meaning is made by the reader, not the writer. AI fits that idea almost too well. In one plain sense, it can be an author.
Social media is not a prison
We like to say the feed watches us like a prison. It is closer to a job with no finish line, where you perform on top of a script that already exists.