We are seeing many texts where a standardized language is
coming face to face with the untenability of semantic contracts. Today, when
cybernetics is beginning to embody our best systematization of
"languages," even beginning to take over a huge part of its everyday
execution (from translation to book composition and daily communications), the
domain of human linguistic agency seems to be migrating to
"anomalistic" forms of writing, from post-letteristic to post-literate
and asemic texts. Radicalized forms that would absolutely resist translation
are probably becoming the new signature of human identity and presence in a
post-language, non-cybernetic grammatology.
Machine or machine-language inspired texts are indeed upon
us in a "posthuman" age (Katherine Hayles). It is a trend that forms
our contemporary horizon. Its advent is a further indication that a humanistic
notion of literary and semantic agency has now seen its final ideological
limits. Jukka-Pekka Kervinen's work at Machine Language,
http://jukkapekkakervinen.blogspot.com/ comes to mind, a sample of which is
below. I see him as a major employer of machine-inspired writing styles. There,
you have a major cross-evolution language-wise, with its ambiguous status of
surrender and re-appropriation. Works along these lines still lack close
reading and study.
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Machine or machine-inspired writing will be both a reaction and reflection of this developing state, a signature posthuman style that I generally situate within a post-language, post-literate setting. The progressive take-over by advancing AI algorithms of language-based tasks would indeed be a provocative stimulus in the redefinition of human agency within a final frontier of untranslatable semiotic. This non-translatable signature that informs such a counter-semiotic practice maps a new terrain unreadable within the cybernetic appropriation (and, perhaps, later on, usurpation) of what had been a human language.
(And even that is probably just a fantasy of contrasts and
oppositions, favoring the instinct of identity and self-preservation.)
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