Redefinitions of History in Digital Narration: Traces, Narrative Violence, and the Operativity of the False

This article examines how narration operates in digital environments and how this may reshape our contemporary conception of history. Treating social media as narrative spaces in which subjectivity and collective life are shaped, it argues that the contemporary informational problem exceeds epistemology. Through cases such as Trump’s generative political propaganda, media tribunals, and AI-enabled non-consensual pornographic deepfakes, the article suggests that the issue is not merely the circulation of falsehood, but the capacity of narratives to become socially and historically operative even when detached from embodied, biographical, and historically situated traces. What emerges is a new and potentially violent narratability of lives, shaped by older logics of objectification, which compromises historical legibility and thus subjectivity itself.