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Technonecromancy: Simulacra of Presence and the Politics of Death in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad June 19, 2026 Gustavo Simas da Silva, Vânia Ribas Ulbricht

This article theorizes technonecromancy as a novel regime of mediation that operationalizes spectral presence through generative models, voice cloning, and synthetic video, shifting the relation to the dead from archival recollection to dialogic simulation. Conceptually, it integrates science, technology, and society studies with phenomenology and 4E cognition to argue that posthumous agents...