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ASAP/Journal
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ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts.
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Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social · 6d
I reviewed Ben Mangrum’s new book, on the surprising range of American comedies about computers, for ASAP:
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 6d
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."

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Review of Ben Mangrum’s The Comedy of Computation, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence - ASAP/Review
This spring, I tuned in to an episode of the New York Times podcast Hard Fork to hear an interview with Karen Hao, the author of Empire of AI (2025). Hao explains her choice of “Empire”…
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Fania Noël 🇭🇹 (shadow) @faniamakaya.bsky.social · 12d
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.

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No Rape Involved. Racial Fantasies and State Violence in One Battle After Another - ASAP/Review
According to director Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another is not a political film. Like its inspiration, Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 Vineland, the film’s 2 hours and 40 minutes are packed with ac...
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Institute of Diagram Studies @diagram.institute · 12d
📄 New Institute publication:

Algorithms and the Occult
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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
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 12d
🔮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. 🔮
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 12d
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.

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No Rape Involved. Racial Fantasies and State Violence in One Battle After Another - ASAP/Review
According to director Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another is not a political film. Like its inspiration, Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 Vineland, the film’s 2 hours and 40 minutes are packed with ac...
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 14d
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 🖤
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15d
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Hexing the Patriarchy: The Feminist Politics of Everyday Resistance by @emmaquilty.bsky.social
Hexing the Patriarchy: The Feminist Politics of Everyday Resistance - ASAP/Review
We are experiencing a witchy cultural renaissance. And no wonder: we are currently witnessing a violent global shift in conservative right-wing politics, the roll-back of reproductive rights, and over...
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 15d
@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
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 15d
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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”
buffy image and screenshot of exhibition on green
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 15d
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.
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new article and image of cyber spell books green background and image of the article
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 15d
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!
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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 15d
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 🎃🤖

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jeffrey moro @jeffreymoro.com · 15d
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 !
asapjournal.bsky.social ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 15d
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

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jeffrey moro @jeffreymoro.com · 15d
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)
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 15d
I am happy to share that my article "Cyber Spell Books: From Techno Pagans to AI Grimoires" is now published in Algorithms +the Occult!

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Thank you @tamigraph.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 15d
for @asapjournal.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social and I think through algorithmic conspirituality, genAI, and hopecore as a response to platform polarization!

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Hope, Cope & Scroll: Sifting Down the Tea Leaves of Algorithmic Recommendation - ASAP/Review
The Vibes Are Off . . . In the weeks following the 2024 U.S. presidential election, something was brewing on TikTok. 🤳 The short-form content creation and e-commerce platform is notorious for its for ...
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 15d
Co-editors tamigraph.bsky.social & briana-v.bsky.social discuss how chatbots challenge spiritual/scripted dualisms: “...we see a flourishing array of AI chatbots designed specifically for spiritual inquiry, aiming to create digital avenues for personalized guidance.”

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Spiritual Chatbots in Uncertain Times - ASAP/Review
If chatbots can act as simulations of lovers or therapists, or mimic the communicative presence of a dead loved one, then who is to say that they can’t also act as spiritual guides? As practice-orient...
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 15d
Co-editor Jeffrey Moro writes on Co-Star, AI, surveillance, and media-as-environmental: “Co–Star invokes data to justify astrology as a science, rather than a purely occult practice.”

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As Above, So Below: Astrological Data in the Age of Co–Star - ASAP/Review
I am a Cancer sun, Sagittarius moon, and Capricorn rising. My Mercury is in Cancer, which means my intellect is emotional and empathetic. I have Leo placements in Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, which indic...
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 15d
"The séance metaphor examines how we're made vulnerable to false hope—promises of avoiding superintelligence risk, uploading our minds, or solving climate change," writes Şerife Wong, "while actual material violence goes unchecked."

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Séance and Technology Studies - ASAP/Review
My friends who visit San Francisco always comment on how different our advertising is. Step off the plane at SFO and you’re immediately surrounded by billboards promising AI solutions. They say it fee...
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 15d
"Tarot and cats go hand-in-paw. Exceedingly meme-able, cats, like Tarot cards, communicate what we project onto them," writes Alexandro Segade, sharing his cat-themed tarot suit and their capacious possible meanings with the world.

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Cat Suit (Minor Arcana) - ASAP/Review
In times of trouble, we turn to the cards. We parse the obscure images and occult placements, using divination as a practice of creative anxiety-management. The 78 cards of the Tarot offer a symbolic ...
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 15d
Don't like the cards you were dealt? You need a new deck. Xiaowei R. Wang, Dorothy R. Santos, and AX Mina have just what you need, writing: "The current turn towards generative AI is founded on this turn towards speculation and prediction, & extends it.”

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Zener Cards - ASAP/Review
In the 1930s, Duke University perceptual psychologist Dr. KE Zener created “Zener Cards” for experiments in exploring extrasensory perception with his colleague, JB Rhine. Over the course of one year,...
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 15d
Is the past ever really dead? Scholars Arelí Rocha, Sara Reinis, Katerina Girginova, and Kyle Cassidy write of intentional and incidental practices: "In its world-making and portal-creating capacity, technology has historically materialized the ethereal."

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Ghosts of the Past, Realities of the Future: Tracing Continuities from Victorian Era Spiritualism to Modern-day Extended Reality Practices  - ASAP/Review
Blurring the lines between the physical and the virtual. Conjuring uncanny visuals. Tricking the senses to induce wonder. Such hallmark features of contemporary extended reality (XR) technologies have...
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 15d
Generative magic and cyber spells and AI hallucinations—oh my! aketchum22.bsky.social writes: "Understanding the power of magic as a metaphor for technology continues to be relevant as magical thinking can gloss over how technologies function..."

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Cyber Spell Books: From Techno Pagans to AI Grimoires - ASAP/Review
In 2022, after using the text-to-image diffusion model, Stable Diffusion 1.5, artist, animator, and podcaster Soda Khan shared four AI-generated images of grimoires. The images depict glowing blue and...
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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 15d
Writing against the colonization of the future by the wealthy, David Benqué and lucileolympe.bsky.social perform a ritual for the future: “Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires is a protection ritual and an exploration of peer-to-peer online gathering.”

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Sigil Séance Against Space-Billionaires - ASAP/Review
Our project started in 2021 with the first passenger flight of Jeff Bezos’s space-tourism rocket, New Shepard. This moment acted like a science-fictional vignette, highlighting the figure of the space...
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