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Do Electric Sheep Elicit Empathy?
In Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ Rick Deckard is convinced he can tell “andys” apart from humans by using an established…
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Es war einmal, und ist doch nie geschehen
Iris Wolff, “So tun, als ob es regnet”, Klett-Cotta 2022 (Erste Ausgabe 2017, Otto Müller Verlag)
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Creative by AI
In Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ we see what happens when the artificial human is more human than the human.
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Și roboții sunt tot oameni
Fabulă, satiră, basm, povestirile lui Stanislaw Lem din “Ciberiada” sunt imposibil de clasificat. Roboții lui sunt numai cu numele roboți și în aventurile lor ne…
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Anna Karenina – opoziție și contrapunct
“Anna Karenina” de Lev Tolstoi. Nici nu îndrăznesc să sper că se mai poate zice sau scrie ceva nou despre ea, despre el. Dar ea,…
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Orlando. He Was a Woman.
‘Orlando is the hero who turns into a heroine, in a biography which turns out to be a fiction’ (Hermione Lee, ‘Virginia Woolf’)
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The I-Speak
Based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘I, Robot’ and ‘The Naked Sun’ I am wondering if the language machines speak can really be called “language”
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A Woman in a House
Virginia Woolf writes in ‘To the Lighthouse’ about man and woman, the power one holds upon the other, the intimacy which binds them together. But…
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The Storytelling AI
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is two. One is Arthur C. Clarke and the other is Stanley Kubrick. In this essay, I am interested in Clarke’s…
fiction
Book reviews and recommendations, written from a personal point of view and grounded in what’s happening in my life at the moment. This is an overview of all the blog posts I wrote about fiction.
