ScreenEthics defines the ethical condition of knowledge when perception, reading, publication and retrieval pass through interfaces. The screen is not a neutral surface: it filters attention, ranks visibility, compresses context, stabilises formats, accelerates circulation and determines what can be returned to by bodies, institutions and machines. Within Socioplastics, screen ethics is not moral decoration, but an infrastructural problem of legibility. The operator asks how knowledge behaves when its public life depends on display, metadata, search, platform order, image-text relations and repeated access. A text unreadable to machines loses part of its future; a record without context becomes vulnerable to distortion; a public interface without structure produces opacity even when everything appears visible. ScreenEthics therefore links attention to responsibility: to publish is to organise conditions of return. It gives the field a postdigital discipline in which visibility, compression, indexing and responsibility must be designed together.
This operation is anchored through CyborgText, HybridLegibility and PostdigitalTaxidermy. CyborgText frames the screen as a hybrid field where writing, body, machine and interface become inseparable. HybridLegibility defines the double demand placed on every record: it must remain readable to human interpretation and technical retrieval. PostdigitalTaxidermy clarifies the risk of frozen visibility, where preserved surfaces may appear alive while losing context, responsibility and epistemic force.
Anto Lloveras, architect, urbanist and theorist, links digital culture, epistemology and civic legibility in Socioplastics.
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