Michelle Santiago Cortés
@michelle-sc.bsky.social
as seen on The Cut, ArtReview, Dirt, Lux Magazine + more.
https://open.substack.com/pub/michelleiswriting
https://open.substack.com/pub/michelleiswriting
my latest for @artreview.bsky.social: "I have to wonder if her exoticism, combined with the Spanish listener’s eagerness for a homegrown international pop star, and her honest-to-God singing chops, are all casting a beautiful mantilla over something seriously mediocre." artreview.com/what-do-rosa...
What Do Rosalía’s Lyrics Actually Mean?
Dear the artist’s English-speaking audience: you might be better off not knowing
artreview.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
my latest for @artreview.bsky.social: "I have to wonder if her exoticism, combined with the Spanish listener’s eagerness for a homegrown international pop star, and her honest-to-God singing chops, are all casting a beautiful mantilla over something seriously mediocre." artreview.com/what-do-rosa...
for @emptysetmagazine.bsky.social, "As wide-ranging as they can be, these made-for-the-feed horror videos all bear the signature slick and shine of their AI origination, as thin and flavorless as spit to make the underlying violence go down easy."
www.emptysetmag.com/articles/ai-...
www.emptysetmag.com/articles/ai-...
AI Gothic
The signature slick and shine of their AI origination, as thin and flavorless as spit.
www.emptysetmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
for @emptysetmagazine.bsky.social, "As wide-ranging as they can be, these made-for-the-feed horror videos all bear the signature slick and shine of their AI origination, as thin and flavorless as spit to make the underlying violence go down easy."
www.emptysetmag.com/articles/ai-...
www.emptysetmag.com/articles/ai-...
For @thecut.com, I wrote about "second-hand thinkers" using ChatGPT in escape rooms, and what the AI's pivot to leisure (and video) says about the state of the industry: www.thecut.com/article/woul...
The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies
Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?
www.thecut.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
For @thecut.com, I wrote about "second-hand thinkers" using ChatGPT in escape rooms, and what the AI's pivot to leisure (and video) says about the state of the industry: www.thecut.com/article/woul...
is AI *actually* the aesthetic of fascism? I think a lot of the discourse has gotten it wrong, and I explained why in my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-fascinat...
The ‘Fascinating Fascism’ of AI
The US government’s anniversary AI project tells us nothing about American history and everything about today’s America
artreview.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
is AI *actually* the aesthetic of fascism? I think a lot of the discourse has gotten it wrong, and I explained why in my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-fascinat...
you don't have to be *yourself* online and you should beware any demand to create a robust (trackable, surveillable) online *presence.* forgot to share my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...
Why Do We Have to Be Ourselves Online?
Age verification and data collection require there be no slippage between who governments think we are and who we want ourselves to be – which was the whole point of the internet in the first place
artreview.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
you don't have to be *yourself* online and you should beware any demand to create a robust (trackable, surveillable) online *presence.* forgot to share my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...
the internet is for lying! artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...
Why Do We Have to Be Ourselves Online?
Age verification and data collection require there be no slippage between who governments think we are and who we want ourselves to be – which was the whole point of the internet in the first place
artreview.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
the internet is for lying! artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...
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I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...
How to See the Puerto Rican Art Scene
The island faces a challenge of visibility, with barriers imposed by imperial neglect, poor urban infrastructure and a lack of local arts journalism. But discoverability and visibility can come at a c...
artreview.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...
I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...
How to See the Puerto Rican Art Scene
The island faces a challenge of visibility, with barriers imposed by imperial neglect, poor urban infrastructure and a lack of local arts journalism. But discoverability and visibility can come at a c...
artreview.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...
ai accelerationism 🤝 primitive accumulation
May 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
ai accelerationism 🤝 primitive accumulation
I was on @npr.org “It's Been A Minute" talking about longevity bros, techno-mysticism and Silicon Valley's fascist bend towards self-destructive transhumanism www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...
The "priest of AI" & tech's pursuit of eternal life : It's Been a Minute
Have you heard of Bryan Johnson – tech centimillionaire turned longevity evangelist? He made headlines when he started getting infusions of his own son's blood as a part of his quest to live forever. ...
www.npr.org
May 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I was on @npr.org “It's Been A Minute" talking about longevity bros, techno-mysticism and Silicon Valley's fascist bend towards self-destructive transhumanism www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...
for @artreview.bsky.social i wrote about sam altman’s saccharine post about his creative writing model and how he asked trump for special exemptions from copyright law so that “AI’s ‘freedom to learn’ from copyrighted material” just two days later artreview.com/sam-altman-a...
Sam Altman’s AI Short Story, Reviewed
Soy-Boy-in-Chief Altman’s death march on culture continues. The most real thing, if anything, about his LLM-‘authored’ short story is how desperate it is to be liked
artreview.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
for @artreview.bsky.social i wrote about sam altman’s saccharine post about his creative writing model and how he asked trump for special exemptions from copyright law so that “AI’s ‘freedom to learn’ from copyrighted material” just two days later artreview.com/sam-altman-a...
Reposted by Michelle Santiago Cortés
my latest for @artreview.bsky.social is about eugenicist impulse shared by AGI evangelists and longevity hackers like Bryan Johnson
artreview.com/the-techbro-...
artreview.com/the-techbro-...
The Tech Bro Longevity Complex
Bryan Johnson wants to be ever young, Elon Musk wants to live on Mars and Artificial General Intelligence promises to facilitate it all – no matter the cost
artreview.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
my latest for @artreview.bsky.social is about eugenicist impulse shared by AGI evangelists and longevity hackers like Bryan Johnson
artreview.com/the-techbro-...
artreview.com/the-techbro-...
ins and outs for 2025
December 31, 2024 at 3:36 PM
ins and outs for 2025
every book I read in 2024
and all the books I hope to read in 2025
open.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:12 PM
contributed to @artreview.bsky.social end of year package with my thoughts on the Year in Technology artreview.com/the-year-in-...
It Was Never About Artificial Intelligence
The year in technology: AI came at us fast and hard in 2024. What is it all for?
artreview.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:41 PM
contributed to @artreview.bsky.social end of year package with my thoughts on the Year in Technology artreview.com/the-year-in-...
some of the books i want to read in 2025:
December 4, 2024 at 3:14 PM
some of the books i want to read in 2025:
part two of my Girlbots essay is on: woman-machine metaphors, Serial Experiments Lain, and the monstrous-feminine
December 4, 2024 at 3:07 PM
part two of my Girlbots essay is on: woman-machine metaphors, Serial Experiments Lain, and the monstrous-feminine
accidentally marked my whole inbox as read and I'm deciding to leave it that way. I earned this.
November 27, 2024 at 2:27 PM
accidentally marked my whole inbox as read and I'm deciding to leave it that way. I earned this.
wrote a two-part essay about feminization + digitization, cyberfeminism, the TESCREAL bundle, and Serial Experiments Lain and The Ginny Suite 💌
003: Girlbots I
Part one of two on The Ginny Suite, the TESCREAL bundle, “Serial Experiments Lain” and other cyberfeminist considerations.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:45 PM
wrote a two-part essay about feminization + digitization, cyberfeminism, the TESCREAL bundle, and Serial Experiments Lain and The Ginny Suite 💌
i hate AI and everything it stands for. AI is an ideology masked as a technology (its constituent technologies have a wide range of more-precise and accurate names). no, i don’t think it raises interesting questions about ‘what is art’ that we didn’t ask ourselves in the ‘60s.
November 18, 2024 at 3:38 PM
i hate AI and everything it stands for. AI is an ideology masked as a technology (its constituent technologies have a wide range of more-precise and accurate names). no, i don’t think it raises interesting questions about ‘what is art’ that we didn’t ask ourselves in the ‘60s.