Digital Occultism
Sophie Publig & Mikkel
Rørbo (eds.)
Digital Occultism charts out the
history of memetic circulation, situating it within a genealogy of occult logics. It operates as a constitutive force deeply
embedded in technoculture and shapes how reality itself is produced. Tracing the emergence of fictions from early internet
cultures to contemporary platform environments, it examines how they produce material realities, how politics operate as psychological
warfare, and how desires are engineered through algorithmic feedback. In the afterword, Zach Blas takes us in and spits us
out through the inverted, heretical vision of CULTUS, into the underside, rendering visible occult epistemologies operative
within it.
Sophie Publig is an internet archaeologist exploring digital ecosystems. Her research
and teaching move across critical posthumanism, aesthetics and digital cultures. She analyses online artefacts, from meme
ecologies to networked subjectivities to internet folklore.
Mikkel Rørbo is an interdisciplinary
researcher and producer of cultural detritus. His work focuses on difference, desire and abstraction, in particular how these
are instantiated in computation and agency both inside and outside of capital.
Both are based at the Weibel Institute
for Digital Cultures, Vienna.
