A woman has been working on her book, a young adult fantasy novel, for hours. At some point, she gets the familiar itch to check her email: She can’t think of what to write next. She stares at the ...

Is Susan Hiller a ghost-believing, holy water–packing, aura-gathering, ESP adherent? No. But she does get asked that a lot. Call it belief by association. And Hiller is regularly associated with a ...

Over the last few months, Google has been improving Gmail with some rather interesting features, including a cleaner new design and some useful productivity tools. The capabilities, especially those ...

Automatic Writing transforms involuntary speech into an ambient soundscape, conjuring four spectral musical "characters." Object Collection reimagines this on a stage of flickering monitors and ...

Psychology reveals doctors' messy handwriting often results from time pressure, cognitive demands, automatic writing habits and years of clinical practice rather than carelessness.

In the Richard Powers novel Galatea 2.2, a cognitive neurologist and a novelist endeavor to create a neural net sentient enough to pass a PhD comprehensive in English literature. The machine, dubbed ...

Automatic Writing's October 2013 piece locating intersectionality as a firm and necessary component of class struggle politics, and identifying the risk many critics of intersectionality fall into of ...