Xavier Nueno wins Anagrama Essay Prize for investigation of how AI appropriates collective memory
Xavier Nueno (born 1990) won the Anagrama de Ensayo 2026 for La revuelta de los copistas, a book that argues that technology companies have appropriated the intellectual and creative holdings once stewarded by libraries and turned them into subscription commodities; Nueno frames the library as today’s most profitable monetization machine and traces the story through figures such as copyists and librarians, ending with large-scale piracy and mass scanning by AI companies.
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AI-assisted summary of the linked sourceXavier Nueno (born 1990) won the Anagrama de Ensayo 2026 for La revuelta de los copistas, a book that argues that technology companies have appropriated the intellectual and creative holdings once stewarded by libraries and turned them into subscription commodities; Nueno frames the library as today’s most profitable monetization machine and traces the story through figures such as copyists and librarians, ending with large-scale piracy and mass scanning by AI companies.