Shira Chess

@ckunzelman.bsky.social I absolutely want to have this conversation with you!

“I don’t think there’s a phrase that better characterizes the Internet we have now than, 'Nothing is true, everything is permitted.'" - @shirachess.bsky.social

Stream and subscribe:
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The Internet is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess) | Team Human Ep. 358 Has the internet always been a magical space? Shira Chess , a Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia and a leading scholar of digital folklore, dive in...

@shirachess.bsky.social on Team Human. Huzzah!

This sounds very interesting indeed 👇 👇 👇

YouTube video by Douglas Rushkoff The Internet Is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess)

The counterculture spent the 90s trying to destroy consensus reality. It worked.

We just didn't have a plan for what came next.

Stream and subscribe my conversation with @shirachess.bsky.social:
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The Unseen Internet Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s a one-in-a-billion chance that we are not living in a com...

And book here!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...

The Internet is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess) | Team Human Ep. 358 Has the internet always been a magical space? Shira Chess , a Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia and a leading scholar of digital folklore, dive in...

Episode here: www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/358...

I recently chatted with @rushkoff.com on Team Human to discuss about my new @mitpress.bsky.social book, The Unseen Internet. We talked about the esoteric wallpaper of the internet, meme magic, AI, and a whole lot of technological woo...

YouTube video by Douglas Rushkoff The Internet Is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess)

Great convo between @shirachess.bsky.social & @rushkoff.com :))) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOp...

In one hour!

Conjuring the Algorithm: Magic, AI, and the Hidden Internet with Dr Shira Chess YouTube video by Angela's Symposium

This Sunday, 2/22 I'll be livestreaming with @drangelapuca.bsky.social about all things dark academia:
www.youtube.com/live/TFx1WDU...

Journal doodles of the death of publishing.

Some thoughts on publishing into the abyss of 2026...
unseeninternet.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Journal doodles of the death of publishing.

Some thoughts on publishing into the abyss of 2026...
unseeninternet.substack.com/p/the-death-...

'The Unseen Internet' is a new book that seems interesting Earlier this month, MIT Press came out with The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse by Shira Chess,  and it seems lik...

'The Unseen Internet' is a new book that seems interesting @shirachess.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2026/02/the-...

What? Not yet published??? Don't Groundhog Day me!

Of Internets, seen and unseen Listen now | The OG Darkweb

Of Internets, seen and unseen
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Joseph Matheny writes about the new book The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse by my friend and coauthor (of a not yet published book) Shira Chess

@shirachess.bsky.social

Me holding a copy of my new book THE UNSEEN INTERNET.

Today my newest @mitpress.bsky.social, THE UNSEEN INTERNET, is officially out in the world.

Here’s the argument:
At the dawn of cyberculture a lot of people on online were intentionally doing magic. And now it feels like we’re all kind of doing magic.

Yay Fiorella!

and an excerpt in case you missed it! thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-demon-in-a...

It’s Friday the 13th! If you are looking for the uncanny today, I’ve got you covered (with @mitpress.bsky.social )

Our Winter Sale continues...

Including Death Lines: Walking London's Horror History by Lauren Jane Barnett. The first walking guide to London's role in the evolution of horror cinema

See what else is on offer 🔗 strangeattractor.greedbag.com/dept/~winter...

A copy of "The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse" by Shira Chess on a plain background. The cover is blue-green with black text.

@shirachess.bsky.social explores the tensions between the occult and digital spaces in the twenty-first century in "The Unseen Internet," an innovative account of internet culture: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...

The Unseen Internet Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s a one-in-a-billion chance that we are not living in a com...

It’s a wild ride of a book and I hope you join me for that ride.

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...

Me holding a copy of my new book THE UNSEEN INTERNET.

Today my newest @mitpress.bsky.social, THE UNSEEN INTERNET, is officially out in the world.

Here’s the argument:
At the dawn of cyberculture a lot of people on online were intentionally doing magic. And now it feels like we’re all kind of doing magic.

Aaaah … good point… synchronicities portend interesting things…

You, indeed, are a character in the book. I hope you enjoy it!

My Casual Transformation into a Fictional Character On the Alchemy of Writing and Meat Spaces

@shirachess.bsky.social "I’m becoming rapidly entangled.. co-authoring a history of Mondo 2000 w. R.U. Sirius. As that story continues to unfold, I can’t help but feel like a character in that narrative too: a foreign interloper
unseeninternet.substack.com/p/my-casual-...
a good time was had by all

I wrote things about my “solipsistic awe.”

The Unseen Internet Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s a one-in-a-billion chance that we are not living in a com...

The book will be out on Feb. 10th! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...

Is there a world-eating demon in our black boxes? In my forthcoming book The Unseen Internet I demonstrate the overlaps between the quest for AGI and spirit conjuring. Here's an adapted version of the chapter from @mitpress.bsky.social