LGBTQIA+ communities have historically been underrepresented in the video game industry, which still bears the legacy of that decade—from the late 1980s to the late 1990s—when the medium and the very identity of the gamer were marketed by the mainstream industry as exclusive to young, cisgender, heterosexual men (and in the West, white men). Yet LGBTQIA+ individuals have always played video games. And ever since they’ve had the opportunity, they’ve also modified, created, and reimagined them—giving rise to a vibrant scene of queer video game détournements that reinterpret commercial works or unveil their inherent queerness.
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In Ghost in the Shell, the 1995 animated film directed by Mamoru Oshii and based on the manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow, Major Kusanagi often finds herself confronting her Ghost — a term which, in the film’s universe, represents that part of her being which cannot be reduced to the mere function of the body or the calculation of cognitive abilities. The Major, in fact, is a cyborg: a human whose brain has been implanted into an artificial body. Although it’s clear that she possesses all the capacities to act intentionally, to make decisions, to choose, to modify her reality, the question remains: is it truly her will, or is she merely executing predetermined programmes — albeit extraordinarily sophisticated ones?
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Half the world has had fun generating “Studio Ghibli-style” memes thanks to the new text-to-image tools released by OpenAI. These creations have been welcomed with enthusiasm by some and met with scandal by others, particularly by those who consider them a “plagiarism” or a misappropriation of the style and characters of the famous Japanese studio.
In today’s context, the issue of digital sovereignty plays a strategic role, directly impacting the ability of governments and institutions to manage data, infrastructure, and technology independently. According to Fausto Gernone, a competition economist specialising in digital ecosystems, Europe is currently facing a structural delay stemming from decades of neglect of issues that are now increasingly central to its technological and political self-determination
On March 17, the daily newspaper Il Foglio launched an editorial experiment titled Il Foglio AI: a sort of duplicate of the newspaper, created with the help of artificial intelligence, to be published in both print and digital format for one month.