The Unseen Internet \ud83d\udcab
Shira ChessLooking at technological woo past, present, and future.
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On April 30th I gave a talk at Giorno Poetry Systems at 222 Bowery as part of an event for the artist Mark Leckey. This is a version of that talk. A few minor notes:
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Hi, I’m Dr. Shira Chess, professor and curator of weird internet shit. Once upon a time I wrote about video games, but now I don’t. My new book The Unseen Internet is available now. I’m currently co-authoring a hist...
The Backrooms and the Rise of Institutional Gothic
The Backrooms, is coming. This past week, a new trailer popped for the A24 film, based on a web series, based on a creepypasta.
The release made me revisit some thoughts I had several years ago when the web series first began about an eme...
The Death of Publishing (and Birth of Not Giving a Fuck)
Last week my fourth book, The Unseen Internet, was officially released. Anyone who has endured the long and brutal process of university publishing knows the anguish of the wait. You write a book into one world and one landscape and then it...
Book Available Today! The Unseen Internet!
Today my newest MIT Press book, The Unseen Internet, is officially out in the world.
Those of you who have written books know the intensity of these moments. You spend years laboring over a manuscript only to have to let it go, say goodby...
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Author, academic, and connoisseur of weird internet shit. || New book: The Unseen Internet (MIT Press, 2026) || Recovering Game Studies Scholar
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