Ptuj – Within the city of Ptuj in northeastern Slovenia, one of many principal Slovenian cultural festivals, Days of Poetry and Wine, opened on Thursday with the studying of an open letter to Europe. By studying the open letter to Europe, the pageant’s organizers have been highlighting urgent points in recent times. Polish poet Jacek Dehnel this time identified the difficulty of synthetic intelligence in literature.
Dehnel stated that the truth that the EU has not but legally addressed the difficulty of synthetic intelligence is seen as one of many largest cultural threats we face, as it’s a world course of, “the seriousness of which we aren’t even in a position to comprehend at the moment”. “Literature – and artwork extra broadly – has all the time been a method for societies to speak with themselves, a type of collective pondering, typically disagreeable, that disrupts human complacency and spoils good spirits,” Dehnel wrote.
He’s satisfied that its substitute by a less expensive imitation, which runs easily alongside possible and well-known connections as a substitute of showing the sudden and throwing us out of the established rhythm of habits, may have catastrophic penalties for our collective consciousness.
The pageant’s honorary friends are Danish poet Pia Tafdrup and Belarusian-American poet Valzhyna Mort, and the curator is Ukrainian-American poet and college professor Ilya Kaminsky.
The pageant, which can finish on August 24, options 21 poets from Slovenia and overseas. The director of the Beletrina publishing home, which organizes the pageant, Mitja Čander emphasised the European dimension of the pageant. “It has develop into one of many principal European festivals within the area of poetry, as evidenced by the truth that Beletrina, exactly due to the Days of Poetry and Wine, is the holder of the European platform Versopolis, which incorporates greater than 30 European festivals,” Čander stated. (August 23)
