Riley Wilson

Predictive Texts: Modern Mysticism and Algorithmic Divination

Deep Blue (University of Michigan) 2024 Riley Wilson

Predictive Texts: Modern Mysticism and Algorithmic Divination contributes to critical literature on secularism, literary, and digital studies by theorizing algorithmic divination, which is the process of interpreting algorithmic technologies in order to gain insight into one’s life and identity. I argue that new media users “read” the algorithms they are subjected to and create a folk mythology...