The Ghosts of Automation’s Futures: Labor, Haunting, and Affect

In Katherine Behar: Ack! Knowledge! Work! exhibition catalogue

2025

Punctum Press

Ed(s).: Katherine Behar

This essay contemplates Katherine Behar’s exhibition Katherine Behar: Ack! Knowledge! Work! Thinking with Behar’s exhibition, I define AI automation as “the invisibilization and devaluation of human labor, rather than its replacement.”