𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘖𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘮 by Sophie Publig & Mikkel Rørbo

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.

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Sophie Publig & Mikkel Rørbo Digital Occultism

Afterword by Zach Blas

𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 #𝟮

Issue edited by Lea Sande, Ema Maznik Antić, Marko Bauer, Janez Fakin Janša Series edited by Lea Sande and Ema Maznik Antić

Publisher: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Represented by: Marcela Okretič Editor in chief: Janez Fakin Janša

Co-publisher: University of Applied Arts Vienna

Design: Federico Antonini

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