Alessandro Y. Longo is a researcher, writer, and cultural organizer based between Berlin and Turin. He’s a PhD candidate at DREST (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies), where he investigates the emergence of synthetic intimacy and the problem of AI personhood. Alessandro is the initiator and maintainer of REINCANTAMENTO, an independent research and publishing group exploring technology, and radical imagination through the lens of re-enchantment. He has spent several years contributing to cooperative protocol design and blockchain governance through Curve Labs and Circles Coop.