Machine Voice: Programmer Fiction
Many decades before generative AI, the writer J. M. Coetzee actively engaged with machine voices, says Andrew Dean, and also grappled with the perils...
Andrew Dean teaches at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. In 2021, he published Metafiction and the Postwar Novel: Foes, Ghosts, and Faces in the Water, with Oxford University Press. He has written on issues from campus politics to the legacies of neoliberalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. His most recent research has been on Jewish American literature after 1945.
Many decades before generative AI, the writer J. M. Coetzee actively engaged with machine voices, says Andrew Dean, and also grappled with the perils...