Conflicting agencies at the heart of literariness
Proposal Type
Individual Talk
Location
Hypertexts & Fictions
Start Date
July 2026
End Date
July 2026
Abstract
This presentation focuses on the literariness of machine-generated poetry, discussed from the point of view of authorship. I will anchor my presentation on two pillars: on the one hand, the triad "text-code-intent", and on the other, the concept of "literary algorithm". By analysing and contrasting a set of texts composed with and by algorithms, I will recover the main theoretical contributions that have been proposed to discuss authorship in machine-generated literature, applying them to contemporary writing procedures with LLMs. In a second moment, I will assess how these discussions on the technical mediation of authorship may destabilise or reinforce notions of literariness.
Conflicting agencies at the heart of literariness
Hypertexts & Fictions
This presentation focuses on the literariness of machine-generated poetry, discussed from the point of view of authorship. I will anchor my presentation on two pillars: on the one hand, the triad "text-code-intent", and on the other, the concept of "literary algorithm". By analysing and contrasting a set of texts composed with and by algorithms, I will recover the main theoretical contributions that have been proposed to discuss authorship in machine-generated literature, applying them to contemporary writing procedures with LLMs. In a second moment, I will assess how these discussions on the technical mediation of authorship may destabilise or reinforce notions of literariness.
Bio
Ana Marques holds a PhD in Materialities of Literature from the University of Coimbra. Her work intersects literary theory and media studies. Her areas of interest include algorithmic poetics and historical avant-garde movements. She is currently a contracted researcher at the Centre for Portuguese Literature of the University of Coimbra.