L’amour – La mort, #19 – On Intelligence

It all started with Nim – the chimp who, in the 1970s, supposedly signed the longest sentence in the history of primate linguistics. We got obsessed.

This issue of L’Amour La Mort brings together twenty contributors – professors and poets, neuroscientists and philosophers, with an editorial group scattered between Dubai, Montréal, London, and Stockholm. We’ve asked our writers to think about intelligence is and to consider the human fascination with, and repeated failures in attempts to communicate with other species.

The result? A chorus of voices that might never meet in real life but, here, collide: essays on primate linguistics and dolphin experiments gone awry, conversations with cats, meditations on AI and mortality, playground conversations and particle physics.

Featuring:
Tao Lin, Prof. Eric Gans, Prof. Thomas G. Bever, Dr. Richard Rapport, David James, Leah Kelly, Liza Tegel, Christofer Degrér, Jack Schaaf, Cutspace, Anthony Yew, Sierra Armor, Luis Neer, Maks Valenčič, Oscar Ahlberg, Zac Smith, Sam Pink

Graphic design: Agnes Ivarsson
Edited by: Dana Dawud, Charlie Zachs & Jonatan Södergren
Editor-in-Chief: Jonathan Brott

L’Amour – La Mort is a literary magazine based in Stockholm, Sweden. This issue is an anomaly – normally we write in Swedish. We are a nonprofit with no political or religious affiliations, funded in part by the Swedish Arts Council. Thank you for reading.