Riprendersi il volto. Tra violenza sintetica ed etica relazionale

Generative AI technologies are transforming how human bodies become visible, recognizable, and vulnerable. Among them, non-consensual deepfake pornography represents a paradigmatic form of synthetic violence: by manipulating images, it severs the body from its intentionality and reshapes its social meaning. This paper approaches the phenomenon through a relational and enactive ethics, interpreting synthetic violence as a breakdown of participatory sense-making – the embodied process through which meaning is co-created in interaction. After reconstructing the grammar of this violence and its perceptual implications, the discussion turns to two case studies – the journalist Rana Ayyub and the documentary Another Body – to show how the same technologies that inflict harm can also become tools for resistance and collective repair.