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Digital Tribulations 16: Intermezzo, The Platformization of the Author in AI-Mediated Writing

The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. 1. Towards a Transindividual Authorship Already ten years before ChatGPT, Sui, the author of the manhwa Tower of God, imagined an omniscient conversational bot at the disposal of the tower’s climbers. Emily […]

Mimicked Voices and Nonhuman Listening: Deepfakes, Speech, and Sonic Manipulation in the Digital War on Ukraine

The essays collected in this series (link to the Introduction) trace how nonhuman listening operates through sound, speech, and platformed media across distinct but interconnected domains. Across these accounts, listening no longer secures meaning or relation; it becomes a site of contestation, where sound is mobilized, processed, and weaponized within systems that privilege circulation, recognition, […]