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A Whisper of Gef to Lily Dale
The chatbot, the librarian, and the "extra clever mongoose"
Manifesting Loab
Agency panic and the monsters that stalk the digital paranormal
If You Give a Gorilla a Wallet…
Does nature need its own gig economy?
Book of Songs
That death is not the end
Ghosts of Digital Extraction
Anti-blackness and the plantation in American tech
Out of the Shadows
The Limn interview with Dan Gerstein of Gotham Ghostwriters
Algorithmic Counter-Divination
Community datasets power other machines
Identification Error
Digital misrecognition and the making of the "Asian face"
Dangerous Voices, Ghostly Alliances
The dead in Okinawa help us imagine a politics of the weird.
There Might Be Giants
Very tall gateways into
alternate realities
Orit’s Two Bodies
Limn’s AI gets ahead (and torso) of itself
Confessions of an Art World Ghost
The museum’s army of invisible labor
Data and the Dybbuk
The chatbot confidently misreads the history of the Yiddish theater
Preface: Ghostwriters
There are machines and there are their ghosts
Behind the Purdah
What’s it like to be a working-class woman in a hot city?
Disappearing Balconies
What does the enclosure of balconies say about climate, class, and caste?
Escape to the Country
How has agrarian crisis transformed the interiors of the Himalayan foothills?
Middling Worlds
Can we imagine a climate future
inside a giant plastic bag?
Apertures all the Way Down
What’s concealed in a frame?
Under the Surface
How do you make sense of an inaccessible interior?
Skin Deep
What if skin care is really planetary care?
The Architecture of Vector Control
Can bricks be made to breathe?
Climate in My Mind
How does anxiety become an environmental relationship?
Twilight Shift
How does global shipping deliver thermal inequality?