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FoUBARthes: Death of the Author

FoUBARthes: Death of the Author

March 15, 2024

3m

Overview

Media performance artist Dayna McLeod asked ChatGPT to write an increasingly snarky and heated dialogue between Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault about The Death of the Author, a famous essay by Barthes. This script is performed by AI actors of the theorists, with Dayna’s AI doppelgänger, DaynAI, acting as master of ceremonies.

Directed by

Dayna McLeod

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