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This article proposes an approach to the novel Throguel Online (2020), by Chilean writer Nicolás Meneses, from an intermedial perspective. We will analyze the book's place between literature, videogame, and internet, considering various elements in the mixture of real and virtual layers it is performing, and which is turning it into a symptomatic and exemplary work for the digital and cybercapitalist era. On the one hand, the novel displays, on an aesthetic, material y thematic level, different textualities and configurations of videogames that invade and transform the materialities and languages of the text. On the other hand, it shows both the difficulties of precarious life in Latin America (Chile), and the possibilities of creating new virtual communities through digital networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to analyse the processes of subjectification in digital environments, for which the concept of 'digital archive-subject' is proposed. The definition of this concept requires the critical study and analysis of theoretical, philosophical and literary works. These develop themes suitable for the present investigation on archive, subjectivity, the human being and technology. In this way, the concept 'digital archive-subject' responds to concerns raised from the new ways of conceiving humans and their relationships with digital technologies, with the world and with others, due to the fact that cultural, social, economic and political changes in the last decades have been a vortex that has caused some of the certainties about the world and its configuration to stagger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]