Calling All Calligraphers: Barthes, Benjamin and Art in the Age of AI

I, K. Dana Moran, wrote this work, but it doesn't really matter who wrote it, because it's true. You could say history wrote this work, or science wrote this work, because it is an inevitably. The purpose of this essay is it's replication, not it's origin, hence illuminated manuscripts of this work are called for. Art in the Age of AI is healthy; it's like food.

Once, the artwork derived its value from its presence in a ritual, but the modern apparatus of reproduction has detached the reproduced object from the domain of tradition, the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applicable. We are witnessing the death of both the artist and the original. As the cult value of the artworkrecedes, and the aura erodes, its exhibition value advances to a position of total dominance. All art becomes performative and social. The work is no longer a destination, but a rehearsal for a new way of living. When the ritual of the individual is exhausted, the ritual of the audience itself becomes the machine that replicates.