Shira Chess

@shirachess.bsky.social

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Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA Books: 1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫 2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius) https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet

St. Jude Milhon wearing a Mondo 2000 t-shirt.

the lineup for Mark Leckey's "The Physics of Mystics" at GPS.

Program page for SCMS panel on magazines at 2:15 today in the Crystal Ballroom.

Journal doodles of the death of publishing.

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

High Frontiers magazine ad from 1984 leading with “are you turned off by your computer? Having problems turning your computer on?”

Cover of Electric Word magazine, Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcslfe’s pre-WIRED pub from January/February 1990.

AI pioneer Marvin Minsky is in a photo and quoted on the cover: “Like women wanting the streets back - at some point programmers will want their programs back.”

Table of contents for The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse by Shira Chess
Introduction: Magic in the Air
Chapter 1: Technopaganism and the Summoning of Cyberculture
Chapter 2: From Sigils to Meme Magic
Chapter 3: From Rituals to Games
Chapter 4: From Gnosticism to Simulations
Chapter 5: From Manifestation to Reality Tourism
Chapter 6: From Demons to AI
Conclusion: Nothing is True; Everything is Permitted

1990 ad for CHI PANTS. They are what to wear in CYBERSPACE.