No. 13
Ghostwriters
Limn’s 13th issue takes the pandemonium around AI as an opportunity to revisit a classic problem: ghostwriters. There is nothing new about occupying the voice of another, bodies animated by uncertain agencies, and human imitations that are too close—and thus too far—for comfort. Whereas debates over AI are bound up in fantasies and nightmares of singularity, Limn 13 presents a haunted house of other spectral presences in play. Together, authors and artists ask: what happens when we commune with machines and their ghosts?
Enter if you dare!
In This Issue
Preface: Ghostwriters
There are machines and there are their ghosts
Data and the Dybbuk
The chatbot confidently misreads the history of the Yiddish theater
Confessions of an Art World Ghost
The museum’s army of invisible labor
Orit’s Two Bodies
Limn’s AI gets ahead (and torso) of itself
There Might Be Giants
Very tall gateways into
alternate realities
Dangerous Voices, Ghostly Alliances
The dead in Okinawa help us imagine a politics of the weird.
Identification Error
Digital misrecognition and the making of the "Asian face"
Algorithmic Counter-Divination
Community datasets power other machines
Out of the Shadows
The Limn interview with Dan Gerstein of Gotham Ghostwriters
Ghosts of Digital Extraction
Anti-blackness and the plantation in American tech
Book of Songs
That death is not the end
If You Give a Gorilla a Wallet…
Does nature need its own gig economy?
Manifesting Loab
Agency panic and the monsters that stalk the digital paranormal
A Whisper of Gef to Lily Dale
The chatbot, the librarian, and the "extra clever mongoose"