Reimagining Authorship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Posthuman Reading of Literary Creativity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.66635/qy5rks96Keywords:
Human-Machine Cooperation, Post-Structuralism, Intertextuality, AI-Generated Literature, Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, Authorship, Posthumanism, Algorithmic CreativityAbstract
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has disrupted the traditional conceptions of authorship, creativity, originality and textual authority, and so transformed the current literary culture. This study investigates the reconfiguration of creativity in technologically mediated contexts by AI-generated writing, and the destabilization of conceptions of human-centered literary production. The article discusses the development of literary authorship in the era of artificial intelligence from the perspectives of post-structuralism and posthumanism. The study is qualitative and theoretical, based on textual analysis of important theoretical works and recent research on digital humanities, AI-generated literature and human-machine cooperation.
The study claims the AI-generated literature shows creativity is not simply the province of autonomous human awareness, but is distributed, intertextual, and mediated by technology. Generative AI systems produce literary works by the computational recombination of linguistic patterns and textual databases, so challenging traditional conceptions of originality, intentionality, and solitary authorship. The paper then demonstrates that posthumanism provides a necessary framework to understand literary creativity as a cooperative process produced by the interactions of humans, algorithms, digital infrastructures, and informational systems. Writing in contemporary digital culture is increasingly networked, decentralized and hybrid, rather than individualistic and human-centered.
The study concludes that artificial intelligence is not the end of literature, but a transformation in literary production in the circumstances of the posthuman. In digitally mediated circumstances, AI-assisted production challenges literary studies to reassess established conceptions of authorship, textuality and creative agency. Finally, the research proposes a posthuman perspective on literary creativity in the age of artificial intelligence, which is advantageous to contemporary literary criticism.
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