Cybernetics, or Ghosts? Stories from Myth to AI Worldwide in the same way that

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Cybernetics, or Ghosts? Stories from Myth to AI Worldwide in the same way thatEdited by writer and artist Michael Salu, fifteen of todays most daring writers from across the globe read and respond to Italo Calvinos seminal essay Cybernetics and Ghosts with rich and expansive works of fiction. In Calvinos essay, first delivered as a lecture in 1967, he provocatively suggested that writing could one day become a computationally reducible process, speculating that machines might eventually become sophisticated enough to reimagine