Essays

English essays and adaptations by Martín Álvarez.

• AI did not kill the author

  Published: May 24, 2026

  An essay on Olga Tokarczuk, the AI controversy, the long novel, assisted authorship and the responsibility of writing with machines.

• The tool does not sign

  Published: May 13, 2026

  An essay on AI-assisted writing, authorship, editorial judgment and the laziness of discrediting a text by naming the tool used in its process.

• Against the non-place: in praise of booksellers

  Updated May 7, 2026, 13:19

  An essay on the value of booksellers: orientation, used books, discoveries, Onetti and the bookstore as place against the infinite catalogue.

• Jazz and AI look a lot alike

  Updated May 5, 2026, 16:12

  An essay on the closeness between jazz and artificial intelligence: composition, improvisation, rhythm, cadence, listening and generative excess.