Roland Barthes

A new essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books explores links between the history of semiotics and large language models, arguing that theorists such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, and Jacq…

A new aesthetic doctrine for generative image systems, built on Roland Barthes' concept of the 'blind field,' instructs AI to render the felt presence of what is not shown, creating tension between st…

A writer reflects on a year in which they read more text generated by large language models than written by humans, and wrote more words for LLMs than for humans, leading to a shift in their perceptio…