2024/06/01 by Rita Raley, Russell Samolsky · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity #Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez
paper · doi:10.1215/03335372-11092911
openalex publication_date 2024/06/01 · openalex created_date 2024/06/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/26
Although at first glance our title, "Borges and AI," might seem to promise or betoken an analysis of the relationship of the work of Jorge Luis Borges to artificial intelligence, what lies behind it is more specifically a play on his fiction, "Borges and I," which we intend to serve as a precursory lead-in and accompaniment to our own thoughts on artificial intelligence (AI) and authorship (Borges [1957] 1998: 324). 1 What Borges's parable gives voice to is his struggle against being eclipsed by his fictions; thinking with this parable will thus help us begin to work through our own confrontation with the "AI author."It is notable that Borges does not articulate one reductive response, and neither will we.What he does instead is unfold the affective and analytical dimensions of being subject to fictional capture.Our essayistic counterpart takes its cue from Borges's parable, but we shall not simply mirror it; rather, we present our own reflections on what might turn out to be a more encompassing eclipse.While "Borges and I" might be read as a pretext in the double sense to such poststructuralist formulations as Michel Foucault's "author function" 1.Our analysis is based on all authorized English translations as well as the original Spanish text, "Borges y yo."