Perpetual Forgetting, 2023
Experience the Text Generator
Note: You can 1) download "Bekleyiş Unutuş" (Waiting and Forgetting) by Maurice Blanchot from here , 2) upload your own text file, or 3) write/paste text directly in the text editor above.
In Claude Shannon's 1948 article "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," it is argued that the randomness connected through the Markov chain can be applied to letters and then to words, and that in this way, a sliced text can be created that shares the same statistical structure as a real text.
Maurice Blanchot, whose style and the differences of his texts I liken to the differences of expression in my own work, has a story called "Waiting and Forgetting," which I always enjoy reading. This is a text that can be said to be completely detached from the plot. This is one of the reasons why I enjoy reading it all the time. Because it also contains a kind of constant forgetting.
Derrida, in an interview for "Waiting and Forgetting," states: "'Awaiting Oblivion' is perhaps the last book with a form of fiction, the event of the conceivable that gives birth to the narrative, a tale that emerges as an event, neither true nor false, and in which the sense of fiction... begins to tremble." Emphasizes the slice-like structure of the text. Therefore, through the Markov chain, I have tried to create a text that repeats Blanchot and constantly reproduces itself.