The Android Voice in Algorithmic and Auto-Generated Digital Poetry in "Big Data" (2019), "Emociones artificiales" (2017) and "Mb-r-èz yàx mtí Gemido de águila" (2018)
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n1p157Keywords:
android voice, algorithmic poetry, posthuman subjectivity, Hispano-American digital literatureAbstract
This article analyzes three works of algorithmic and self-generated digital poetry - Big Data (Bonilla & Mata, 2019), Emociones artificiales (Läufer 2017), and Mb-r-èz yàx mtí Gemido de águila (Zapoteco 3.0, 2018) - from a posthumanist perspective that conceives the android voice as an instance of enunciation. Through a constellational reading, the study suggests that these works challenge traditional notions of authorship, subjectivity, and language by presenting poetic voices generated by algorithms that simulate human traits. Big Data stages algorithmic surveillance and the erosion of individuality; Emociones artificiales exposes the artificiality of machinic affect and emotional simulation; and Gemido de águila articulates a decolonial digital poetics that reclaims Zapotec as a language of aesthetic enunciation. Together, these works constitute a poetic-technological laboratory in which subjectivity is no longer conceived as a human interiority but rather as a dynamic assemblage of code, affection, culture, and technology. The android voice thus emerges as a key aesthetic figure for understanding contemporary displacements in digital literature, aligning with the posthumanist theories of Ferrando, Braidotti, and Haraway regarding distributed and relational subjectivities.
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