Artificial Intelligence, Narrative Voice, and Human Emotion: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Klara and the Sun

This research investigates how artificial intelligence, the voice of the narrative, and human feeling relates to one another in the novel Klara and the Sun from a Foucauldian angle using a discourse analysis framework. By applying ideas from the theories of Michel Foucault and incorporating elements of posthumanism, narratology, and other theoretical foundations, I will argue that Klara's perspective as a first-person narrator provides us with a discursive space (Klara) where subjectivity and emotion are created rather than expressed (or articulated). Through comprehensive reading and consideration of current research, I have shown that the novel does not provide us with the idea of emotion as an innate human characteristic but rather as a discourse-based and relational construction built through power, through the repetitive application of similar discourses, and through the structures of society. Finally, the novel challenges the anthropocentric view of consciousness and the authenticity of emotion. It proposes that both concepts are reliant on the conditions of representation, discourse, and relational interaction rather than a biological basis.

کلیدواژه ها:

artificial intelligence ، discourse ، Foucault ، narrative voice ، emotion ، subjectivity