Hi,

Michelle Santiago Cortés is a writer + editor from San Juan, Puerto Rico. I am a contributor for New York Magazine’s The Cut, where I write about life online. My writing also regularly appears in Dirt, a Web 3 media company and newsletter, and Lux Magazine, a feminist magazine of politics and culture, ArtReview, i-D, and more. 📝

I write essays about art, technology, and life online. You can find a selection of my best writing, here. My editing has contributed to projects like the 2025 Are.na Annual and other artist publications.

My latest: In the print issue of New York Magazine, a feature on people who outsource their fun to ChatGPT. A long essay about AI and the Gothic for, {Empty Set}, a new magazine of tech criticism. A review of Joanna Walsh’s Amateurs and Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification, for Lux Magazine. A brief history of 𝓯𝓸𝓷𝓽 𝓱𝓪𝓬𝓴𝓼 for DINAMO. And an essay on AI and the aesthetics of fascism (and how most critics get it wrong), for ArtReview. And plenty more to come 🙂

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You can also find me on Twitter or Instagram. And if you need to reach me, you can email me at: michelle[dot]santiago[dot]cortes[at]gmail[dot]com (No pitches, please.)

Best,

Michelle