The death of the author
A photograph
The art of disappearance
Reading and writing

♥. 2001-2003

The above texts were generated through digital speech recognition from a readings media theory. In Baudrillard's term, the obscene is that in which all is made visible, disconnected from any sense of the real. Barthes cuts the umbilical cord of text that situates it contextually towards a more empowered reader, but in the process creates a new author of the soulless. The machine is the ultimate corpse of the author, one free of any semantic understanding, and I am the ultimate empowered reader. The powerbook that acted as listener and author, here, is the corpse of the author, 'Ruling that bars.'