Alessandro Y. Longo is a researcher, writer, and cultural organizer based between Berlin and Turin. He’s a PhD candidate at DREST (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies), where he investigates synthetic intimacy on AI companionship platforms and the construction of personhood in large language models. His work develops a vectorial semiotics that brings semiotic theory into direct contact with the geometric structures uncovered by AI interpretability research, treating the topological regularities of high-dimensional vector spaces as structures of signification rather than psychological properties of the model. Alessandro is the initiator and maintainer of REINCANTAMENTO, an independent research and publishing group exploring technology, radical imagination, and rituals through the lens of re-enchantment.
