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 🔮
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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

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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”

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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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)

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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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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