Tuesday evening on Earth. Last letter before the summer break. Thank you for this year of exchanges, debates, and learning. You can read the archives.
Our digital personalities are forms of living matter coveted not only by artificial intelligence, but above all by other human beings. An executable computer file is not simply a document to be viewed. It contains a program that a machine can run. Opening it triggers a process, mobilises different resources, and produces an action within the system hosting it.
Our digital lives increasingly follow this logic. Our singular ways of perceiving, representing, and inhabiting the world are being compiled into filters, presets, templates, prompts, zines, and small objects. They are no longer merely displayed to an audience: they are made available for others to use.
Fragments of personality can therefore be distributed to other individuals and communities, who execute them within their own environments. They do not become exactly like us. But th…
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