🔮 Announcing: Memes, Myths, and Magic returns to Caveat on 6/21!
🔥 Open this email to reveal an incredible speaker lineup & read to the end for a special announcement!
Memes, Myths, and Magic returns to Caveat on Wednesday, June 21!
Following the successful premiere of Memes, Myths, and Magic on Saturday, April 29, we’re thrilled to announce the second installment will come to Caveat on Wednesday, June 21, at 7:00 PM ET!
Digital Void's Memes, Myths, and Magic is an interactive festival featuring the internet’s most critical, funny, and engaging thinkers. We’re bringing together a wide range of storytellers, writers, historians, academics, comics, and strategists to explore the role of memes, myths, and magic in our lives.
From AI and Gaming to Modern Occultism to Creepypasta, Digital Void and an all-star cast of speakers explore how Memes, Myths, and Magic influence our lives. Featuring cutting-edge storytelling and insightful cultural takeaways, Memes, Myths, and Magic shines light on the ways digital culture and technology shape our lives in unexpected ways.
🔥 Featuring this incredible speaker lineup…
🔥 Carlos Maza is a video producer creating leftist political essays on YouTube. He's the creator of the Vox series Strikethrough, a diehard Dungeons & Dragons nerd, and generally trying to be an okay human being at the end of the world.
🔥 Allegra Frank is a deputy entertainment editor at The Daily Beast. She previously worked as a culture editor at Slate and Vox. Prior to that, she was an editor, reporter, and podcast host at Polygon.
🔥 Shannon Liao was most recently a staff writer at The Washington Post covering video games. Prior to joining The Post, Liao was a games reporter at CNN Business, profiling the CEO of Epic Games, breaking industry scoops around business and tech, and contributing the occasional article to other sections.
🔥 Ryan Broderick is part of Digital Void, a journalist, video producer, podcaster, and community moderator. He's the writer of the Garbage Day newsletter.
Award-winning author Mitch Horowitz will be delivering a talk and signing copies of his book Uncertain Places! 🎉
🔥 Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian whose books include Occult America, One Simple Idea, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, Uncertain Places, and Modern Occultism. His work is censored in China.
In his talk, Mitch will explore why magick works--even (or especially) if you don't believe in it. For anyone vested in coding, logic, and mathematical infinity, chaos magick, or what Mitch calls anarchic magick, harbors special value. Mitch will also be signing his book, Uncertain Places.Â
📕 Digital Void will be giving away a 30 copies of Uncertain Places to the live audience at Memes, Myths, and Magic! Copies will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis immediately following the show.
📺 Watch now: Mitch Horowitz’s talk, The Role of a Rebel in a Digital Age, from October 2022’s Meme in the Moment.
✨ Thank you to everyone who attended the premiere of Memes, Myths, and Magic on Saturday, April 29!
📺 Watch now: Comedian and writer Abby Govindan’s talk, How TikTok is Making Misogyny Cool and Sexy Again, is now streaming! We’ll have a full slate of talks from April’s show available soon.