Voice, body, threshold: toward an anti-algocratic aesthetics of measure in poetry and technological performance
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article develops the concept of the spiking measure formulated in the essay From Brain to Silicon: The Spiking Measure of Ethical Intelligence in the Artificial Age, extending it to poetry and the performing arts. The spiking measure—Inspired by the rhythmic efficiency of the human brain, the alternation of impulses and pauses—becomes here an aesthetic, ethical, and political paradigm: a model of cognitive sustainability grounded in limits. In the context of algocracy, that is, the invisible rule of algorithms governing visibility, attention, and desire, poetry, videopoetry, and performance emerge as practices of sensible resistance: micro-politics of rhythm and threshold, capable of restoring value to silence and waiting, also from an anthropocentric perspective.The article investigates the parallel between spiking neural networks and poetic acts, between biological efficiency and creative measure, outlining a possible anti-algocratic aesthetics that opposes continuous calculation with the intermittence of gesture, voice, and body. In an era dominated by automation and optimization, poetry reaffirms the limit as a principle of freedom and as a vital condition of human intelligence. Reading, sharing, and citing this text are permitted, provided a clear reference to the author and original source is given. Any commercial or editorial use, or reproduction, in whole or in part, of the content requires prior written authorization from the author. © 2025, Dimitri Ruggeri. All rights reserved.
Author: Ruggeri, Dimitri
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7104100992
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