New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen. vimeo.com/1116289621 🧵

The collection is awesome, algorithms are a lot like an occult practice. Hexing white supremacists, casting spells, tarot, astrology and more featuring @emmaquilty.bsky.social @aketchum22.bsky.social @xrw.bsky.social @drs.bsky.social @thechristinet.bsky.social @jessrauchberg.bsky.social

Seance and Technology Studies is for real, read the intro published by @asapjournal.bsky.social as part of "Algorithms and the Occult, or Chatbots are the New Psychic Friends Network" edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com 🔮 asapjournal.com/node/seance-...

I reviewed Ben Mangrum’s new book, on the surprising range of American comedies about computers, for ASAP:

Check out our newest review by sselisker.bsky.social on Ben Mangrum's newest book about comedy, GenAI, phenomenology, slop, and more: "The Comedy of Computation offers a toolkit for understanding a load-bearing portion of the discourse about new technologies." asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Out now on @asapjournal.bsky.social : “No Rape Involved. Racial Fantasies and State Violence in One Battle After Another.” Many thanks, Michael and Tyler. Version française (légèrement modifiée) à paraître prochainement sur Zone Critique. asapjournal.com/review/no-ra...

📄 New Institute publication: Algorithms and the Occult asapjournal.com/cluster/algo... ASAP Review @asapjournal.bsky.social, cluster edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com @briana-v.bsky.social feat. Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires w/ @lucileolympe.bsky.social

🔮Just in time for spooky season: A new cluster of essays in @asapjournal.bsky.social, edited by D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social and @briana-v.bsky.social, and @jeffreymoro.com, considers the relationships between algorithms and divination. 🔮 asapjournal.com/cluster/algo...

What does it mean for a film to be flagged as non-political? What counts as politics, and what is determined to be something else? Our newest review by @faniamakaya.bsky.social explores the racial & sexual vocabulary of PT Anderson's film, One Battle After Another. asapjournal.com/review/no-ra...

Thank you 🙏🏽 to @tamigraph.bsky.social, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione for editing this cluster on Algorithms and the Occult for @asapjournal.bsky.social 🧙🏾 Always grateful to @xrw.bsky.social and AX Mina for, well, everything 🖤

<<click!>> Hexing the Patriarchy: The Feminist Politics of Everyday Resistance by @emmaquilty.bsky.social

@jeffreymoro.com and I started cooking up this special issue several years ago via DM, well before the death of academic Twitter. It was so fun to put this together and to bring my wonderful @datasociety.bsky.social colleague @briana-v.bsky.social into the fold

asapjournal.com/node/cyber-s... and of course there is a brief discussion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and also the exhibition I curated “From Tech Wizard to Cyber Witch: Invocations of Computing Technologies as Magic, 40+ Years of Magic on the Web”

My article “Cyber Spell Books: From Techno Pagans to AI Grimoires” discusses AI grimoires within a larger historical context of digital technology, magic practitioners, and popular culture. asapjournal.com/node/cyber-s... @asapjournal.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com

Just in time for Halloween, our @asapjournal.bsky.social cluster on Algorithms and the Occult is out! 👻 Featuring @emmaquilty.bsky.social, @aketchum22.bsky.social, @xrw.bsky.social, @drs.bsky.social, @serife.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, @jessrauchberg.bsky.social, and more!

You should ALSO check out all the other essay in this glorious cluster from @tamigraph.bsky.social, @jeffreymoro.com & @briana-v.bsky.social in @asapjournal.bsky.social on Algorithms and the Occult 🎃🤖 asapjournal.com/cluster/algo...

enhance your Halloween season reading with this rich, textured, and magickal collection of essays on algorithms and the occult, edited by yours truly with @tamigraph.bsky.social and @briana-v.bsky.social !

my essay inquires after the history of astrological data and asks whether an LLM can meaningfully write your horoscope (and what it means for a horoscope to be "meaningful" in the first place)

I am happy to share that my article "Cyber Spell Books: From Techno Pagans to AI Grimoires" is now published in Algorithms +the Occult! asapjournal.com/node/cyber-s... @asapjournal.bsky.social Thank you @tamigraph.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social

for @asapjournal.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social and I think through algorithmic conspirituality, genAI, and hopecore as a response to platform polarization! asapjournal.com/node/hope-co...

Our newest cluster is out! *Algorithms and the Occult Ed Tamara Kneese, Jeffrey Moro, Briana Vecchione Feat E Quilty C Tran J Rauchberg D Benqué L Olympe Haute A Ketchum A Rocha S Reinis K Girginova K Cassidy X R Wang D R Santos AX Mina A Segade S Wong asapjournal.com/cluster/algo...

Led by David J. Vázquez and others, our newest Provocations explores Renee Hudson's book: “Latinx Studies practitioners have long grappled with our field imaginary, and Hudson’s book offers one of the richest elaborations of what the field might become.” asapjournal.com/review/provo...

In our newest piece, Brittney Frantece reviews the 1st survey exhibition of Lorna Simpson’s large-scale paintings at the Met (through Nov 2nd): “Lorna Simpson: Source Notes invited me into a world that felt real yet elusive, familiar yet new––haunting.” asapjournal.com/review/ghost...

In our newest piece, Brittney Frantece reviews the 1st survey exhibition of Lorna Simpson’s large-scale paintings at the Met (through Nov 2nd): “Lorna Simpson: Source Notes invited me into a world that felt real yet elusive, familiar yet new––haunting.” asapjournal.com/review/ghost...

Absolutely glorious!

I needed this good news today. 🖤

Our newest cluster is now live! Check it out now!! Manifesting Africanfuturism Ed. Damilare Bello and Tolulope Oke Feat. Pamela Carralero Marta Tveit Elizabeth Abena Osei Carl Death Adanna Ogbonna-Oluikpe Jenna Hanchey asapjournal.com/cluster/afri...