Ghostwriting: The Alkimos and its Ghosts

Abstract

Ghostwriting is comprised of two texts — a conventional article and a new media artwork. Both texts attempt to work the notion of ghostwriting as the trace of a residual figurality through the use of the “ghostship” Alkimos and its relation to the Australian landscape. The ghost, figured through both Derrida’s notion of the ghost as that which haunts all concepts and the specificity of the “ghost” of Alkimos, haunts the margins of the Australian coastline. The two texts should to be read together.