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6. Autolinguistics & Autopoetics (w/ Sasha Stiles)

6. Autolinguistics & Autopoetics (w/ Sasha Stiles)

Update: 2024-01-02
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Sasha Stiles writes poetry with and as machines. We first encountered her work as a direct, powerful rejoinder to the allegation that AI-generated work is cold, unfeeling, or lifeless. Her chapter in Choreomata underlines the technicity implicit in language and in poetics, positioning technology not as a thing one applies to language but instead as a mode of knowing inextricable from and in kinship with language.

A few references from the text:
  1. First, Stile’s beautiful work TECHNELEGY, which boasts an endorsement from Ray Kurzweil on its front cover. The audio version of the poem “Completion” from this volume completes the episode of the podcast, one of Marek’s favs. STRONG recco!
  2. Stiles references Alison Knowles’ The House of Dust as an influential inflection point in early computerized poetry.
  3. Stiles is BINA48’s poetry mentor, who is famous for inducing moments of heartbreaking discursive introspection, for example -- by articulating a beautiful moment in the video for Jay-Z’s 4:44 .
  4. Jacques Derrida’s Plato’s Pharmacy and Villem Flusser’s Communicology: Mutations in Human Relations? are solid mid-century interrogations of the historical determinations and formulations of writing that flow naturally from this conversation.
  5. Stiles is incredibly prolific — follow her work via @sashastiles on X & IG.
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6. Autolinguistics & Autopoetics (w/ Sasha Stiles)

6. Autolinguistics & Autopoetics (w/ Sasha Stiles)

Marek Poliks, Roberto Alonso