In the celebrity world, a 'body double' performs stunts and fills in for double roles, appearing in high-risk situations. On the other hand, body doubling is a productive strategy where the presence of another person increases focus on the task at hand. In this issue, we read the 'body' in two ways. It is a linguistic suffix – anybody, nobody or somebody. It is also the dichotomy between having a body/ being a body, with a nod to artificial intelligence's role in bridging that distance.

In this week's issue, Lee Daehyung surveys Ron Mueck's first solo exhibition in South Korea to explain how the human body subverts the risk of becoming a mere interface in an age saturated by curated feeds and algorithmic selves, using Mueck's larger-than-life (but also uncannily alive) sculptures. Corresponding to this is an opinion piece collaboratively written by the STIR editorial team; it weighs in on the recent OpenAI-Studio Ghibli debacle, using it as a springboard to

examine the phenomenon's broader repercussions on creative disciplines, virtual embodiment and issues of originality and identity.

Objects, sculptures, furniture and artworks in the exhibition 'Time as a Mother' become vessels for conversation around the inherent beauty of material ageing, held in inert bodies. And, Ghana-based spatial design practice Limbo Accra activates dead and uninhabited spaces, leveraging technology to connect anybody with abandoned sites that are hundreds of miles away. They facilitate an affordable coming together to feed our sociality and well-being.

If embodiment is the synthesis of having a body and being one at the same time, how do we grapple with the many bodies—physical/ virtual, organic/ inert, real/ metaphorical—which we inhabit today?