MICHAEL SALU, on ‘Cybernetics, or Ghosts? — Stories from Myth to AI,’ Subtext Recordings’ latest literary anthology
Interview by Christopher Michael Reading Italo Calvino’s essay Cybernetics or Ghosts is an eerily prescient experience. In the essay, Calvino boldly asserts that, in the near future, a machine would be able to take the place of the writer. Specifically, Calvino believes that a “poetic-electronic machine” might soon create poetry as good as a human. […]