Hugo Paquete, researcher at INET-md, is the author of the article “Sonic Sabotage in Negentropy: AI as an Instrument of Disobedience in Post-Operatic Performance”, published in Tsantsa, Revista de Investigaciones Artísticas (No. 17, 2026).
This essay analyses the role of artificial intelligence as an instrument of aesthetic disobedience in post-operative performance, using the speculative work *Negentropy: The Last Man in the Wasteland* (2024) as a case study. Challenging algorithmic governance and the affective standardisation of platform capitalism, the piece employs audio deepfakes, generative algorithms and biofeedback (CO₂) not to optimise processes, but to critically sabotage the infrastructures of cultural production. Grounded in a negentropic epistemology and a post-techno aesthetic, it transforms error, temporal collapse and distributed authorship into deliberate compositional forces.
The study demonstrates how this performative practice articulates a metapolitical resistance across three axes — temporal, authorial and affective — proposing strategic dissonance and algorithmic dysfunction as tactics for reclaiming sonic agency and imagining post-optimised futures. It also introduces the concept of Research through Sabotage (RtS), a methodology that synthesises Research through Art and Research through Design, prioritising controlled dysfunction as a generator of situated knowledge.