Tag: Augere: The Death of the Author
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The Act of the Immeasurable
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By Lázara Ávila Fernández We asked at the outset what happens to the act of signifying when its written materializations, already emancipated from the presence of the one who produced them, are transduced into data and pass through a different regime that correlates and calculates them operationally in order to…
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Aladdin’s Lamp
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Lázara Ávila Fernández When the Genie Grants the Wish The “writing” generated by the language model compels us to evaluate its relevance within the context window. During the interaction, the user employs certain constraints to tell the language model what it should and should not do. The constraints imposed by…
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The Obsolescence of Authorship
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By Lázara Ávila Fernández Could it be that the concepts of author, authorship, and creation have become obsolete and need to be updated in light of these times, when language models occupy an ever-greater space in our lives? Should we authors refrain from using AI in our creative and literary…
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The Absolute Inflation of the Sign
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By Lázara Ávila Fernández This inflation of the sign “language” is the inflation of the sign itself, absolute inflation, inflation itself. Yet, by one of its aspects or shadows, it is itself still a sign. This crisis is also a symptom. It indicates, as if in spite of itself, that…
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The Expropriation of the Act of Signifying in Four Tempus
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The Constitutive Present and the Operational Present By Lázara Ávila Fernández To delve into this topic, we need to journey back to the moment when the act of signifying takes place. This look back places us in the Human Domain. In this chapter, we seek to answer the following: What…