On the Author(s) of Choice

By

Luigi Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of an Author

On Six Characters in Search of an Author


On AI as Author

Author

Co-Author


On Author-Authority

Author Authority


On Authority

For knowledge in its present state, the human is embedded in the loop.

Knowledge possessed by humans is human knowledge.

But does the human necessarily serve the decision of its tools?

Yes, but.

Is the loop still human?

Human in the Loop

And did we cede our author-ity?

How We Became Irrational

The Irrational Decision

AI-thor-ity

On Prediction



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From Discord, The Philosophy Cafe : https://discord.com/channels/832020515941908550/832020516696358984

Mauriby: @Philosophy Enthusiast 

Question of the Week 13th April 2026

Discuss in ⁠serious-discussion 


What is an author? We may think the answer to this question is self evident, 

but there have been many fruitful discussions oriented around this question 

in the history of philosophy as well as in general folk conversation! Some are 

satisfied with taking an author to be the person who wrote a text, however 

collaborative writing projects or mechanically generated texts seem to 

problematize this sort of view. Others take the author to be an essentially 

legal and/or financial designation referring to who holds the rights to profit off 

of a text in a particular way, however this sort of relationship itself has room 

for criticism. In addition to this, are there authors of non-textual media? Is the 

painter of a painting its author? More broadly, how does the relationship between 

creator(s) and creations take shape, and how should that relationship inform our 

understanding of those creations?


Michel Foucault, What is an Author?

https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Foucault_Author.pdf


Italo Calvino, Cybernetics and Ghosts

https://sites.duke.edu/machineliterature/files/2011/03/calvino-ghosts.pdf


Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author

https://writing.upenn.edu/~taransky/Barthes.pdf


Michael L. Morgan, Authorship and the History of Philosophy

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20128729?seq=19


Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf


Justin Weinberg, " 'On Liberty' now Officially has Two Authors"

https://dailynous.com/2026/03/19/on-liberty-now-officially-has-two-authors/

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Ben Recht on Machine Learning

Armada Shehu on Thoughtless Learning

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