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HOW MUCH IS IT WORTH TO BE A SUBJECT?: EFFECTS OF SUBJECT ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ARCHIVE OF/IN X

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.14023

Keywords:

archive, subject, reading, X, Grok

Abstract

In this work, which is part of the theoretical-methodological-analytical framework of Pecheuxtian materialist discourse analysis, I aim to comparatively analyze the functioning of automated discourses linearized by Grok, X's artificial intelligence, with a view to questioning the imaginaries (re)produced about the subject-user and their sustaining effects. To this end, I start with the statement-command “What is dictatorship?” asked under different circumstances: in a personal profile and in a profile created for research, using both the free and paid versions of X. From a theoretical point of view, I mobilize notions such as archive and subject, which guide the way the corpus is viewed, articulating theoretical notions with analytical reflections. Throughout the analyses, I identify that Grok makes distinct gestures of reading about the subject-user and about the archive it mobilizes for the statement-command, in order to strain the limits of repetition and paraphrase in its formulations.

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Author Biography

Thiago César da Costa Carneiro, Federal University of Pernambuco

Doutorando e Mestre em Letras, pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, e graduado em Letras - Português (Licenciatura) também pela UFPE. Atualmente, é editor assistente e de Layout da Revista Investigações (PPGL/UFPE) e Professor de Língua Portuguesa pela Secretaria de Educação e Esportes do
Estado de Pernambuco. Bolsista CAPES 001. Membro do Núcleo Estudos em Práticas de Linguagem e Espaço Virtual (NEPLEV/CNPq) e do Grupo de Estudos do Texto (GESTO/CNPq). Membro da Comissão Científica de Análise de Discurso da Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN).

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12/01/2025 — Updated on 03/11/2026

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HOW MUCH IS IT WORTH TO BE A SUBJECT?: EFFECTS OF SUBJECT ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ARCHIVE OF/IN X. (2026). In SciELO Preprints. https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.14023 (Original work published 2025)

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