Michelle Santiago Cortés

Michelle Santiago Cortés is a writer and editor living and working in New York City. She writes essays and reported features about art, technology, and life online. She is pursuing an MA in Digital Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Center.

What Do Rosalía’s Lyrics Actually Mean?

Michelle Santiago Cortésartreview.com17 November 2025

Dear the artist’s English-speaking audience: you might be better off not knowing

Guillermo del Toro’s Technological Sublime

Michelle Santiago Cortésartreview.com10 November 2025

In Mary Shelley’s time, science and technoculture set their standards against magic. Who – or what – is our Frankenstein today?

The ‘Fascinating Fascism’ of AI

Michelle Santiago Cortésartreview.com12 September 2025

The US government’s anniversary AI project tells us nothing about American history and everything about today’s America

Why Do We Have to Be Ourselves Online?

Michelle Santiago Cortésartreview.com13 August 2025

Age verification and data collection require there be no slippage between who governments think we are and who we want ourselves to be – which was the whole point of the internet in the first place

How to See the Puerto Rican Art Scene

Michelle Santiago Cortésartreview.com04 June 2025

The island faces a challenge of visibility, with barriers imposed by imperial neglect, poor urban infrastructure and a lack of local arts journalism. But discoverability and visibility can come at a cost

Sam Altman’s AI Short Story, Reviewed

Michelle Santiago Cortésartreview.com27 March 2025

Soy-Boy-in-Chief Altman’s death march on culture continues. The most real thing, if anything, about his LLM-‘authored’ short story is how desperate it is to be liked

We All Have ‘Archive Anxiety’ Now

Michelle Santiago Cortésartreview.com14 March 2025

As online access to information becomes increasingly restricted, even the noblest feats of preservation and archiving are being hijacked