Christian Bök: “We are probably the first generation of poets who can reasonably expect to write literature for a machinic audience of artificially intellectual peers.” (from “The Piecemeal Bard Is Deconstructed: Notes Toward a Potential Robopoetics”—http://www.ubu.com/papers/object/03_bok.pdf )
Kenneth Goldsmith: “[Barry] Bonds just points to the fact that being human has ceased to be enough: we demand the precision and complexity of machines, in athletes, in politicians, in business and in the arts. And what we demand, we now have.” (from “In Barry Bonds I See The Future of Poetry”—http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/repost_in_barry_bonds_i_see_th.html)
Two influential contemporary poets:
Christian Bök: “We are probably the first generation of poets who can reasonably expect to write literature for a machinic audience of artificially intellectual peers.” (from “The Piecemeal Bard Is Deconstructed: Notes Toward a Potential Robopoetics”—http://www.ubu.com/papers/object/03_bok.pdf )
Kenneth Goldsmith: “[Barry] Bonds just points to the fact that being human has ceased to be enough: we demand the precision and complexity of machines, in athletes, in politicians, in business and in the arts. And what we demand, we now have.” (from “In Barry Bonds I See The Future of Poetry”—http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/repost_in_barry_bonds_i_see_th.html)
Sample their stuff: http://www.ubu.com/sound/bok.html http://www.ubu.com/contemp/goldsmith/index.html