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The viral rumor about an alleged look-alike - if not a clone - of Jim Carrey who supposedly attended and delivered a speech at this year’s César Awards in France is a sign of our times. Beyond tech paranoia, it reveals a deeper anxiety: no longer owning the exclusivity of one’s own story. Having to prove you’re an authentic human, and not an AI or a deepfake, becomes almost existential. Our biographies are increasingly battered by our relationship with technology. It is within this tension that the notion of biotechronicity takes root: the gradual resynchronization of our lives to digital time regimes.
Biotechronicity: A Human Reassembled by Technology
Biotechronicity is what happens when our lives stop being paced by the living (seasons, bodies, social milestones…) and instead resynchronize to platform clocks (streaks, trends, notifications, memories…).
Stories (24 hours), trends (T…
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