Lecture by David J. Kim, A&S Postdoctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Department. 'Uncanny Readings' is a collage of horoscopic divination practices in Seoul, profiling three diviners with their own unique takes on the craft. Marcel Mauss in A General Theory of Magic wrote, most provocatively, that 'between a wish and its fulfillment there is, in magic, no gap.' What is it to see magic and divination as something full and self-fulfilling? On the other hand, what might it mean to bend and twist this to say magic itself occupies a space, or gap, of desire and wishes? What scripts and tales come from this space, and how do they work themselves into everyday life? What feelings of joy or dread might be produced from the divination scene, and ultimately, how much does the substance of the reading even matter? Against the backdrop of the megalopolis, readings take place in intimate venues and the pleasures of divination are put in play-simultaneously creating and revealing the slippery fissions between nature and construction.