Hexen 2.0 tarot / Suzanne Treister.

  • Suzanne Treister
Date:
[2012]
  • Books

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Hexen2.0 tarot

Description

"The Hexen 2.0 tarot features 78 alchemical drawings depicting interconnected histories of the computer and the internet, cybernetics and the counterculture, science-fiction and scientific projections of the future, government and military research programmes, social engineering and ideas of the control society; alongside diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to the advance of technology including the claims of anarchoprimitivism, technogaianism, and transhumanism. Through representing and re-examining these subjects and histories through the lens of occult belief systems and ideas of the supernatural, the Hexen 2.0 tarot takes us to a hypnotic, mesmerising space from where one may imagine and construct possible alternative futures. Acknowledging precedents such as the traditional tarot deck, the Rider-Waite tarot deck and Aleister Crowley's Thoth tarot deck, Suzanne Treister has here produced a new tarot, that allows a reader, or a group of readers working collaboratively, to use the cards to reconfigure history and/or map out hypothetical future narratives."--Back of box.

Publication/Creation

London, UK : Black Dog Publishing, [2012]

Physical description

1 tarot deck ([78] cards) : color illustrations ; 15 x 10 cm, in box 16 x 10 x 3 cm

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Notes

Published in 2012 on the occasion of Treister's exhibitions "Hexen 2.0" at the Science Museum (7 March-1 May 2012) and "Hexen 2.0/Literature" at WORK Gallery (16 March-12 May 2012). "HEXEN 2.0 is the sequel to Treister's acclaimed HEXEN 2039, and brings together a group of large-scale, densely plotted 'alchemical' diagrams, photo-text works, a hand-coloured set of 78 re-imagined Tarot cards and a film representing a cybernetic séance, offering a space where one may use the works as a tool to envision possible alternative futures." Consult Hexen 2.0 website https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html and "Suzanne Treister, Science Museum" via e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/34488/suzanne-treister/.
Individuals featured in the cards include: in the Major Arcana: Aldous Huxley (The Fool), Timothy Leary (The Magician), Diogenes of Sinope (The Emperor), Jim Channon (The Hierophant), Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (The Lovers), Norbert Wiener (The Chariot), Theodore Kaczynski (The Hermit), Stewart Brand (The Hanged Man), and John von Neumann (Death); Chalices: Henry Thoreau (Ace), H.P. Lovecraft (5), Lewis Mumford (8), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (9), Bob Black (10), Ken Kesey (Knave), Lawrence Jarach (Knight), Ada Lovelace (Queen), Stafford Beer (King); Pentacles: Tim Berners Lee (4), Robert Oppenheimer (6), Gerrard Winstanley/The Diggers (10), Kurt Lewin (Knight); Wands: Richard Stallman (Ace), Josiah Warren (4), William Blake (5), Alan Turing (7), William Gibson (8), John Zerzan (Knave), Hannah Arendt (Queen), Nikola Tesla (King); Swords: H.G. Wells (2), and Martin Heidegger (6). Other cards include events, concepts, governmental agencies, etc. including: Macy Conferences (The High Priestess), ARPANET (Temperance), Utopia (7 of Chalices), Internet Governance (Five of Pentacles), Hackers (6 of Wands), LSD (9 of Wands), MKULTRA (3 of Swords), Google (5 of Swords), among others.

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    Awaiting cataloguing for Wellcome Collection

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  • 1907317651
  • 9781907317651