The deck’s subjects illustrate the fact that the lines between the mainstream and the counterculture were especially porous, especially when bleeding-edge technology and social theory were concerned. Inspired by the meeting of the minds at the Macy Conferences on cybernetics from 1946-1953, Treister uses the symbology of the Tarot to explore how fields as seemingly disparate as philosophy, computer science, psychological research, the defense establishment, futurism, and utopian visions from technogaianism to anarcho-primitivism play a part in our present-day control culture.Ī variety of influential thinkers and theories appear in the deck, from mainstream establishment government, intelligence, and military figures to academics and counterculture icons. The HEXEN 2.0 Tarot deck was designed by artist Suzanne Treister as an exploration of the postwar/Cold War cybernetic consensus, its antecedents, and its descendants. Maker and Year: Suzanne Treister, 2009-2011 The Seven of Pentacles: Whole Earth Catalog The Ten of Wands: Post WWII Early Computers
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