This page lists articles used in the making of the talk “An Occult History of Computing”. (See publications.) Sources with a ⭐ are those that I particularly enjoyed. The PowerPoint slides are available here. Title Slide Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts – The Marginalian (the spiral) Intro: see articles on the rise of occult practices. General Reading “What is Code?” in Bloomberg (Paul Ford, 2015) probably the best article ever written about programming (as a profession) Schemas of Uncertainty has many good articles: ⭐ Algorithms as Cartomancy (Flavia Dzodan, 2019) What if Technology were a Prayer? (Danae Io, interview with K Allado-McDowell) The Future-Oracular: Prediction, Divination, and the Politics of Uncertainty (Emily Rosamond, ?) “What Kind of Sorcery Is This? - Why Code is So Often Compared to Magic” in The Atlantic (Samuel Arbesman, 2016) Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals: The Emergence of AI from the Computation of Space - Journal #101 (e-flux.com) (Matteo Pasquinelli, 2019) Coding the Digital Occult – Etic Lab (Stephanie, 2018) HackCurio: Decoding the Cultures of Hacking (Alex Ketchum, 2022) and the associated Airtable - From Tech Wizard to Cyber Witch Gallery ⭐ TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (Erik Davis, 2015) Reflections on Erik Davis’ Techgnosis · Let’s have a mind and raise flowers. (wordpress.com) Magical Code and Coded Magic: The Persistence of Occult Ideas in Modern Gaming and Computing (2013) There’s a Ghost in my Mouse: How the Occult Informed the Dawning of the Age of the Internet (2018) review of a talk God and the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology (William Stahl, 1999) especially the chapter “Venerating the Black Box” cites The Notion of Magic (Murray and Rosalie Wax, 1963) & The Magical World View (1962) “When Books Read You, a Defense of Bibliomancy” (Ed Simon, 2018) Stuff I only browsed Finite of Sense and Infin