Marta Delatte    INDEX

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Archivos del cuerpo (essay, currently writing)


Archivos del cuerpo (Body archives: Violence, Language, and Desire in Digital Ecologies) is an essay about how language, affect, and memory shape the digital ecologies we inhabit. The book examines the relationship between memory, the body, and technology, and proposes to think of digital environments as spaces where emotions, desires, and forms of violence are inscribed.

From this premise, it explores how digital experiences —from affection to violence— leave lasting traces in collective memory and shape new forms of presence, desire, and participation.

Through case studies such as Wikipedia, feminist hashtags, and experimental chatbots, the essay maps the tensions between visibility and silence, testimony and exhaustion. The body appears as a living archive, capable of preserving traces but also of generating collective forms of care and resistance.

Body archives is an archaeology of the present that weaves together theory, critical design, and artistic practice to explore how language acts upon bodies, how memory can become a gesture of resistance, and how digital platforms turn into spaces of symbolic struggle.



Editar és un acte d’amor: afectes contra la neutralitat (essay, currently writing)


This book (Editing is an Act of Love: Affects Against Neutrality) is the expansion of the fanzine Feréstegues. A Radical Editing Fanzine (Konvent, 2025), conceived as a prototype. While the fanzine served as a practical and community-based manual for feminist editing, the essay broadens the framework and places Wikipedia and generative artificial intelligence in dialogue as spaces where collective memory is contested.

The essay connects the experience of edit-a-thons and feminist movements within free knowledge. It explores how Wikipedia and other digital spaces, far from being neutral, act as symbolic battlegrounds where decisions are made about what remains and what is forgotten, who has authority, and which memories are silenced.

At the same time, the book opens up debate on generative artificial intelligence and its social and ecological impact. Platforms like ChatGPT not only reproduce structural biases but also operate under extractive logics—of data as well as material and energy resources—in contrast with the fragility and care needed to sustain community memories. The essay argues, however, that these tools can also be tactically reused: to identify gaps, shorten processes, generate drafts, or write responses when legitimate knowledge is questioned, thus avoiding wasting energy in sterile discussions.

Las manos cantoras (novel, currently writing)


Las manos cantoras (The Singing Hands) is an autofiction novel that writes the entry into adulthood as a record of losses: friendships that break apart, jobs that do not take root, lives that are gestated in a body too aged to sustain them and in a context too hostile for them to thrive. The protagonist, a woman who experiences stereotypies (stimming), sees the future every time she breaks down, but these visions arrive as a sound collage: fragments of chaotic music, useless as guides. The body thus becomes an overflowing archive, where present and anticipation coexist without hierarchy.

Amid this disorder, the novel also gives space to the calm that follows loss: the serenity of someone who has learned to navigate rivers that will never be tame. Written in a fragmentary, uncompromising style, the book makes visible fragility as a condition of adult life and, at the same time, the ability to endure within it. The Singing Hands offers neither redemption nor easy hope, but a raw narrative about what it means to grow when everything around seems on the verge of collapse.




Academic Articles (2010 – present)


I have published research in journals and encyclopedias that connect technology, art, feminism, and digital memory.

In ADesk Magazine (2019), I analysed how emojis reproduce racial and gender normativity, questioning the idea of the universal user and linking it to user experience (UX). In Feminist Media Histories (2017), I presented the BodyArchive project, a digital cartography of abuse and solidarity showing how personal data can be transformed into collective knowledge and feminist resistance.

Earlier texts include an ethical proposal on the visual representation of war in the digital age (Trípodos, 2009), an exploration of the relationship between music and technology as a paradigm of virtualization and collective creation (Trípodos, 2010, with Pol Creuheras and Cristian Palazzi), and a reflection on contemporary art in the first decade of the 21st century in the context of the information society (Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2010).