MB: So in a way it’s kind of a kitsch version of subjectivity that gets taught in certain kinds of poetry workshops that you want to get rid of as just wrong. And then there’s another kind of subjectivity which maybe we haven’t actually heard much about so far which has a different relationship to language or to expression that maybes coming to the fore now.
KG: Well, it’s the programmers subjectivity. Christian Bok says that in the future no poet will be able to be a poet without knowing Perl, the scripting language. In a way he’s right because all of this is sort of leading to a robo-poetics, a poetics in which, as Christian says, machines write poetry for other machines for lack of any human interest in the genre at large.