Book Chapter

The Ghosts of Automation’s Futures:

Labor, Haunting, and Affect

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

(forthcoming)

Punctum Press

Ed(s).: Katherine Behar

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