Piercing the Algorithmic Fog: Algorithmic Taylorism, AI Poetics, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde
Abstract This epistolary dialogue between Charles Bernstein and Jiang Wang, occasioned by Bernstein’s 2025 visit to Chongqing University and a subsequent transpacific correspondence, examines the fate of literary avant-gardism under algorithmic conditions. Situating the discussion between China’s platform-driven litera...