Loremen Simulator

Something that I’ve written about (together with Max Kreminski) is the idea of a generativist reading of a text: reading something with the end of creating a generative model of it. That is, we closely examine the symbols and meaning of something and try to build a machine that can create similar symbols (with hopefully similar meaning). A ‘text’ in this sense is the view from literary theory: in essence, a ‘text’ is anything that can be read - that is, it has symbols that can be interpreted. By considering a text through the lens of a generativist reading, we can relate the  symbols of the visible artifact (the description of folklore, in this case) with the text we’re examining (a podcast) and our model that emulates the processes of that text (Michael Reeve’s pandemic project generator that invents new folklore).