HEXEN Tarot
Suzanne Treister's Hexen Tarot deck from 2009-2011. HEXEN 2.0 looks into histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, investigating parallel histories of countercultural and grass roots movements. HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, the history of the internet, the rise of Web 2.0 and increased intelligence gathering, and implications for the future of new systems of societal manipulation towards a control society. HEXEN 2.0 specifically investigates the participants of the seminal Macy Conferences (1946-1953), whose primary goal was to set the foundations for a general science of the workings of the human mind. So I guess she's not a fan.
It has cards as:
- 0 THE FOOL Aldous Huxley
- I THE MAGICIAN Timothy Leary
- II THE HIGH PRIESTESS Macy Conferences
- III THE EMPRESS Intelligence Agencies
- IV THE EMPEROR Diogenes of Sinope
- V THE HIEROPHANT Jim Channon
- VI THE LOVERS Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
- VII THE CHARIOT Norbert Wiener
- VIII JUSTICE One World Government
- IX THE HERMIT Theodore Kaczynski/ The Unabomber
- X THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE Cybernetics
- XI STRENGTH Networked Revolution
- X11 THE HANGED MAN Stewart Brand
- XIII DEATH John von Neumann
- XIV TEMPERANCE ARPANET
- XV THE DEVIL The Control Society
- XVI THE TOWER NSA-TIA
- XVII THE STAR Quantum Computing - AI
- XVIII THE MOON Transhumanism
- XIX THE SUN Anarcho-Primitivism
- XX JUDGEMENT Ethics
- XXI THE WORLD WW1/WWII/WWW
- Ace of Chalices Henry David Thoreau
- Two of Chalices Summer of Love
- Three of Chalices The Astrolabe
- Four of Chalices Castle Clock
- Five of Chalices H. P. Lovecraft
- Six of Chalices Dream Sharing
- Seven of Chalices Utopia
- Eight of Chalices Lewis Mumford
- Nine of Chalices Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Ten of Chalices Bob Black
- Knave of Chalices Ken Kesey
- Knight of Chalices Lawrence Jarach
- Queen of Chalices Ada Lovelace
- King of Chalices Stafford Beer
- Ace of Pentacles NBIC
- Two of Pentacles The Intercloud
- Three of Pentacles Electronic Social Engineering
- Four of Pentacles Tim Berners Lee
- Five of Pentacles Internet Governance
- Six of Pentacles Robert Oppenheimer
- Seven of Pentacles Whole Earth Catalog
- Eight of Pentacles Soviet Ternary Computers
- Nine of Pentacles Computing 1957-1986
- Ten of Pentacles Gerrard Winstanley/The Diggers
- Knave of Pentacles Technogaianism
- Knight of Pentacles Kurt Lewin
- Queen of Pentacles Electronic Surveillance
- King of Pentacles Economic Cybernetics
- Ace of Wands Richard Stallman
- Two of Wands CLODO
- Three of Wands Grass Roots Internet Communities
- Four of Wands Josiah Warren
- Five of Wands William Blake
- Six of Wands Hackers
- Seven of Wands Alan Turing
- Eight of Wands William Gibson
- Nine of Wands LSD
- Ten of Wands Post WWII Early Computers
- Knave of Wands John Zerzan
- Knight of Wands Unabomber Manifesto
- Queen of Wands Hannah Arendt
- King of Wands Nikola Tesla
- Ace of Swords Cyberwar
- Two of Swords H. G. Wells
- Three of Swords MKULTRA
- Four of Swords World Federation for Mental Health
- Five of Swords Google
- Six of Swords Martin Heidegger
- Seven of Swords Cybernetic Séance
- Eight of Swords US CYBERCOMMAND
- Nine of Swords The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
- Ten of Swords DARWARS
- Knave of Swords Interplanetary Internet
- Knight of Swords IBM
- Queen of Swords Drones
- King of Swords Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness
No Douglas Engelbart or Ted Nelson?
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