The Literary Origins of Valentine’s Day: Chaucer’s ‘Parliament of Fowls’

Autumn Huxtable explores the literary origins of Valentine’s Day in Chaucer’s ‘Parliament of Fowls’ and how it has shifted meaning to a day celebrating love.

Read Against the Machine: Galatea 2.2 and AI “Human” Thought

Richard Power’s novel Galatea 2.2 follows a journey into the construction of artificial intelligence to replicate literary criticism. Autumn Huxtable explores how the novel highlights the uniqueness of human thought in the wake of AI, and the ethical questions of what constitutes “human” and “machine”.

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