Illusion and reality: Poetry, politics, and AI
How meaning slips from lyric imagination to power and code in the post-Enlightenment age Christopher Caudwell foresaw the eclipse of poetry by reason. In the post-Enlightenment age of politics and artificial intelligence, his wager looks less like cultural pessimism than historical diagnosis. When “Illusion and Reality” appeared in 1937, it read like an obituary written…