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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.
"The works look at the Great Migration and mirror the reverse-migration from North to South happening more frequently today. Taken together, they unexpectedly create a continuum exploring past and present Black movement across the US." — Ifeanyi Awachie

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Uncanny Juxtapositions / Over-Views of Black Migration in Shore|Lines and Clean Slate - ASAP/Review
In the 2025 installation “Shore|Lines,” exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, Illinois, artist Regina Agu uses “the methodology of landscape panorama” to examine conne...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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This month marks the one-year publication anniversary of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS. A labor of love in the commons. Grateful to see this 1st book review in @asapjournal.bsky.social; give it a read and buy a copy of the book for the holidays (linked in the comments): asapjournal.com/review/revie...
Review of Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire - ASAP/Review
The past decade has seen a significant shift in the presentation of art that emerges as part of, rather than bearing witness to, social movements. Artists, activists, curators, scholars, and stakehold...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In our newest review, Julian O'Brien looks at the exhibition and book project, *Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire* and analyzes the interplay between social movements, art, witnessing, aesthetics, and the artworld proper:
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Review of Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire - ASAP/Review
The past decade has seen a significant shift in the presentation of art that emerges as part of, rather than bearing witness to, social movements. Artists, activists, curators, scholars, and stakehold...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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.
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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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
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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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 🔮
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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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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I reviewed Ben Mangrum’s new book, on the surprising range of American comedies about computers, for ASAP:
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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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October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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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October 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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📄 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
Algorithms and the Occult - ASAP/Review
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October 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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🔮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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October 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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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October 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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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 🖤
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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@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
October 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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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”
October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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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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October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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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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October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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 !
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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October 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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)
October 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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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@asapjournal.bsky.social

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

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October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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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October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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.”

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Provocations / Latinx Revolutionary Horizons and Expanding the Latinx Studies Field Imaginary - ASAP/Review
This Provocation reflects on Renee Hudson’s Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas. Latinx Studies practitioners have long grappled with our field imaginary, and Hudson’s boo...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM