Digital magic, digitized magic 

Numéro spécial de la revue Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft (volume 20, number 3, winter 2025)

This special issue of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcreft explores the language of magic in relation to High-Tech, or cutting-edge technology. The years of 2000-2020 represent a period of quick, widespread digitalization; during this time the term « magic » became a common buzzword in the fields of Science and Technology, Computing, and Media Studies. Moreover, online and maimtream media echoed this language, with references to magic applied to a diverse range of advanced technologies: Artificial Intelligence, Connected Technologies and the Internet ofObjects, Cobotics¹ and Robot-ics. As one example among many, in July 2022, the online magazine Dazed published an article entitled « The worlds of technology and magic are doser than you think. »²