I am pleased to see continuing engagement with my recent paper, The Return of the Dead Author: AI Writing, Language Models, and the Crisis of Authorship from Shannon to Lacan.
The paper explores a question that has become increasingly urgent in the age of generative AI:
If language models can generate convincing texts, what actually remains of the “author”?
Rather than treating AI merely as a technological tool, the work examines authorship through the ideas of Claude Shannon, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, and Slavoj Žižek — arguing that the current debate around AI writing may reveal deeper structural questions about language, subjectivity, meaning, and creativity itself.
I am grateful to everyone who has taken the time to read, discuss, share, and critically engage with these ideas.
Research often begins as a solitary act of thought, but its real life starts when it enters the symbolic space of readers.
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