PRESENTATION: THE HEAVEN BANNED

Writer and composer Emile Frankel presents ideas from his forthcoming pamphlet The Heaven Banned, which speculates on a new form of online censorship: not shadow banning, but heaven banning. Here, instead of silence, a user is trapped in a kingdom of bots, condemned to receive only endless praise from AI companions. Through this lens, Frankel explores loneliness, masculinity, and exile in the age of artificial intimacy. In this strange condition, one becomes both loser and king – a sovereign of a wasteland built from their own isolation.