The bot received instructions, made a search, and organized the tweets in an Excel sheet that was later organized for its exhibition. The search term was “I am free to”. Everything that happens from then on, are discoveries. Archaeological layers of meaning unfold: formats of tweets that repeat word by word, generalized ideas, ideas that dispute the established ones and at the same time establish themselves as a rule, ideas that appear from the beginning and that invariably repeat until present, ideas out of context, ideas in a new context, etc. An unvoluntary collective text is created. What defines the meaning of this concept?
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