Harari, Yuval Noah. "The next 50 years: humanity, AI, power | Yuval Noah Harari." Interview by Tom Parker. YouTube (Yuval Noah Harari) 30 July 2026.* (Personhood, post-humanism, control, Agents, Language, Decisions, Corporations, Truth, Fictions, Delusions, Disinformation).
2026
In John Fowles's novel The Magus, the narrator suspects the other mysterious guests in a mansion on a Greek island are somehow figurants in a masque orchestrated for him by the owner of the house...
She turned to face the sea again.
'Do you like Maurice?'
'This is only the third time I've met him.' She appeared to wait for me to go on. 'I'm very grateful for his asking me over here. Especially—'
She cut short the compliment. 'We all love him very much.'
'Who is we?'
'His other visitors and myself'. I could hear the inverted commas.
'"Visitor" seems an odd way of putting it.'
'Maurice does not like "ghost".'
I smiled. 'Or "actress"?'
Her face betrayed not the least preparedness to concede, to give up her role.
'We are all actors and actresses, Mr Urfe. You included.'
'Of course. On the stage of the world.'
She smiled and looked down. 'Be patient.'
'I couldn't imagine anyone I'd rather be more patient with. Or credulous about.'
She stared out over the sea. Her voice was suddenly lower, more sincere, out of role.
'Not for me. For Maurice.'
'And for Maurice.'
'You will understand.'
'Is that a promise?'
'A prediction.'
There was a sound from the table. She glanced back, then into my eyes. She had the face I had first seen in the music-room door: both amused and conspiratorial, and now appealing as well.
'Please pretend.'
'Okay. But only in his presence.'
She took my arm and we moved back towards him. He gave us both his little interrogatory headshake.
'Mr Urfe is very understanding.'
'I am glad.'
'All will be well.'
Con suerte, un podcast que se puede oír sobre mi artículo sobre intertextualidad en Marlowe y Shakespeare. Con mala suerte, aún tenemos el artículo a continuación:
_____. "The Phrase that Launched a Thousand Ships (La frase que lanzó mil barcos al mar)." AI podcast, in English, on José Angel García Landa's Spanish paper of the same title. Academia 18 Sept. 2026.*
https://www.academia.edu/11733902/
2026
An audio introduction, by a friendly Artificial Intelligence, to one of my papers on Shakespeare's theatre deriving from my reading of James Shapiro's 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare:
Academia. "The Spectacular Politics of Julius Caesar." AI podcast on José Angel García Landa's paper (based on James Shapiro's 1599) "La política espectacular de Julio César." Academia 15 Sept. 2026.*
https://www.academia.edu/10510315/
2026
The paper in question, and in Spanish, follows the podcast.
