Alessio Montaruli (KiTalent) has posted Language as Temporal Event — Artificial Fluency, Communio, and the Thinning of Meaning on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This paper argues that language is not first a spatial architecture of signs later used in time, but a temporal event whose stabilized forms can afterward be stored, indexed, vectorized, and computed. Beginning from Heidegger’s account of Rede, Gerede, truth as uncovering, and the temporality of discourse, it develops an account of language as situated articulation within a shared field of intelligibility, named here the communio of Rede. Gadamer, Ricoeur, Pareyson, Vattimo, and Eco are then used to show how understanding, narrative, formation, weakness, and interpretive limit belong to language as event rather than to language as detachable form. On this basis, the paper analyzes generative AI as a system that can reproduce the formal markers of linguistic eventhood without inhabiting the temporal, historical, and communal conditions that make speech answerable. The result is neither simple error nor mere imitation. It is a structural veil: generated language preserves the surface of address, temporality, and apparent understanding while concealing the absence of a world from which the saying could have arisen.
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