CONCEPT
Post-Romantic Creative Practice
The constructive program that emerges on the ground cleared by Woodmansee's critique — transparent, collaborative, evaluated by quality rather than origin, and organized around the cultivation of judgment, voice, and responsibility.
Writers are working with AI now, not in some speculative future but in the daily reality of contemporary creative practice. The integration is happening in advance of theoretical resolution, and the people who are doing the integrating need frameworks adequate to their experience rather than reassurances that the old framework will eventually be patched. Post-Romantic creative practice names the constructive program that emerges on the ground Woodmansee's critique has cleared. Its elements include: transparency about the conditions of production, relocation of evaluative criteria from origin to quality, reconstruction of intellectual property on foundations adequate to collaborative production, and cultivation of the authorial capacities that survive the dissolution of the Romantic construct.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Transparency about conditions of production means acknowledging collaboration rather than concealing it. The concealment that the Romantic framework required — the invisibility of editors, collaborators, and institutional contributors — was functional in a world where conventions of attribution served the market's need