"Specters of Hamlet and AI as RenAIssance Technology," The Folger Spotlight, May 6, 2025

Adaptations ghost Shakespeare's text, and Shakespearean motifs ghost contemporary literature. Em Liu's novel, The Death I Gave Him, draws on the figure of the ghost to offer a modern shadow of Hamlet. What do AI and Shakespeare have to say to each other? A lot more than we might assume. As Liu's novel and Shakespeare's Hamlet show, AI, or ghost in the machine, is a RenAIssance technology of regeneration, giving narratives a new life through the copresence and collective intelligence of humans and non-human entities. ::: https://www.folger.edu/blogs/folger-spotlight/collection-connections-specters-of-hamlet-and-ai-as-renaissance-technology/