For my forthcoming book, THE UNSEEN INTERNET, I interviewed a lot of people most of them strange, delightful, and deeply insightful. Friday (1/9) at 7:30pm PST I will be at Berkeley Alembic, presenting & in conversation with four of them: Erik Davis, R.U. Sirius, Paco Nathan, Mark Pesce.

If I'm going to tell stories about the magazine Mondo 2000 I need to start with some stories about a house... New post is live... unseeninternet.substack.com/p/once-upon-...

New post, in which I attempt to explain my current obsession with Mondo 2000 and why I suck at parties: open.substack.com/pub/unseenin...

I got interviewed by R.U. Sirius about my new book.. Is he responsible for destroying consensus reality? Is reality gamified? Is reading my book like tripping on cough syrup? Read the interview to find out!

The Unseen Internet comes out in 2 months and I’m thrilled to share endorsements from some people I truly admire. Big thanks to Erik Davis, Whitney Phillips, Josh Gunn, and Doug Rushkoff for their kind words.

Apparently I have opinions about Etsy witches…. (Who knew?). Read more on my new Substack post…

16 years after his creation and 11 years after the incident in Wisconsin, I have revisited my old friend The Slender Man. open.substack.com/pub/unseenin... Subscribe to my new substack for regularly flowing weirdness!

My new book, THE UNSEEN INTERNET (about the intersections between magical thinking and tech innovation) is officially available for pre-order via @mitpress.bsky.social! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...

From here on out, all of my author photos will be cosplaying as Todd Rundgren. Photo by Bart Nagel.

A Tale of two editors. Me interviewing two iconic 80s/90s magazine editors from opposite ends of the publishing spectrum: Kevin Kelly (Whole Earth, Wired) and V Vale (RE/Search).

ARE YOU TURNED OFF BY YOUR COMPUTER? (Yup!) Ad from High Frontiers Issue 1 (1984).

Oh hey, this Marvin Minsky cover pull quote from Electric Word (Jane & Louis’ pre-WIRED magazine) did not age very well….

@shirachess.bsky.social has announced the completion of her new book and it's fantastic! It's "The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse" (MIT Press, 2026) and it's extremely fantastic. Here's the TOC

Dr. Chess is both an insightful researcher and an engaging writer. I think a lot of y’all will find this up your alley when it happens!

So excited for this one! And so is pretty much everyone I discuss it with

Many of you know that I have moved away from game studies in recent years, for reasons too personal (and too boring) to disclose. For 3 years I’ve been working on a book; the most fun I’ve ever had doing research. I’ve completed my final draft and I’m finally ready to tell people about it… [1/7]

Historians: what software/app do you like for building complex timelines?

Internet research friends: I have a grad student who wants to do qual analysis involving internet forums, specifically looking at comments on Reddit and streaming platforms. Do any of you have recs for software that can scrape comments for this kind of work that I can pass along?

Overheard Gen Alphas last night: Tween 1: do you want to play poker? Tween 2: are you betting for money? Tween 1: No. we are betting for emotions.

* not actually all of my small army of Nintendo DSs.

As we try to make sense of recent events, I’d like to recommend @adriennemassanari.bsky.social new book about how gaming logic fueled (& continues to fuel) the alt-right. Bonus: her first Amazon review. if you are a white liberal woman it doubles as masturbation fodder! A solid endorsement…

How did I just realize that Joey Ramone in the Pet Semetary video looks like Andy Sandberg in an SNL wig?

“Now that you can control virtual reality, take control over how your body feels.”

In the unlikeliest of all collabs, I am co-authoring a history of the famously weird (and weirdly famous) counterculture/tech magazine Mondo 2000, with former editor-in-chief R.U. Sirius for Strange Attractor Press. More soon…

There's a super cool game studies bundle right now, all books from @mitpress.bsky.social — like @patguy.bsky.social & @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social's Zones of Control, @shirachess.bsky.social's Play Like a Feminist, & @kcisbister.bsky.social's How Games Move Us www.humblebundle.com/books/all-ab...

For folks @ #AoIR2023 I have new researches! Presenting Friday @ 3:30 on 💫Memes & Magic 💫
Stuff I may reference: 
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth
Vampires
Aleister Crowley
Skeletor
The 5 Fingered Hand of Eris
The necromemicon 
Blondie 
I don’t know if it’s good but it’s going to be a ride…

This post is exactly the level of commitment I’m willing to make to this app until we see how it plays out…