October 19, 2018

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Episode 26 – One Foot Forward

This Episode contains a brief overview of Unsound Festival.

A shout out to old friends and I talk about the Hexen 2.0 Tarot Reading I did this week.

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One Foot Forward

 So I’m back from Unsound Festival in Krakow, and I’m just beginning to recover from the retox diet I adopted whilst I was there. My talk on conspiracy theories came over quite dense, but seemed to be well received by those in the audience. Mega Merkel as a robot, billionaire vampires, Rumsfeldian epistemology, and the closing inversion of Euripides question everything to believe everything.

And why not both at the same time? The Beyond Cyberpunk panel went well, too. Perhaps my favorite quote coming from Lee Gamble, saying, So Cyberpunk is more MDMA and Solarpunk is more DMT? The answer is yes, obviously. I think the audio is recorded for both of those panels and I’ll put a link to them as soon as they’re online.

I’d like to say a big thank you to all the festival buddies that I made while I was out there, everyone that hung out with me and that I broke bread with. In particular Lisa Blanning, the journalist, who hung out with me quite a lot and there was really great conversation and a lot of hospitality. On my return, I rolled straight into Further Field’s Decal or Decentralized Arts Lab workshop on Monday, and that was absolutely fantastic.

I cannot wait for this project to materialize. I think it’s going to have a real impact on both the art world, but the cultural world in general. So keep your eyes peeled for that. And the rest of the week has been spent hanging out and catching up with friends and family and doing lots of washing. So that’s about me up to date.

I should also mention and give a shout out to to Mr. and Mrs. Waller, who I bumped into in Krakow. Claire is someone I’ve known since I was 13, and I’ve been friends with Paul since I was about 14, 15, something like that, and I haven’t seen them since 2011, and to bump into them in Krakow for 40 minutes was fantastic.

Paul is the host of Holy Roar podcast, where he interviews a lot of bands from Holy Roar and the hardcore and metal scenes in general. And he also hosts Different Times podcast with another friend from home, Daniel. I really recommend that podcast, they go through old issues of magazines like Metal Hammer and Melody Maker and talk about the news and the music that’s being reported on at the time.

Because they’re old bastards now and they get to do that because they were there the first time round. With all that out the way, I am going to talk about what’s next for me, because I now have a huge chunk of time between now and the end of the year, where I don’t have that many commitments, I have a few.

After that I’ll be going away for two months, and then I’ll be returning, kind of, next year. In February, early March, and wondering about what to do with the rest of my life. I already have a few things to do next year, um, which I’ll talk about at some point, got commitments for June and also September.

But given the space weather, yesterday and today, I thought I’d sit down and try and figure it out. So I broke out the Hexen 2. 0 tarot. For those that don’t know, Hexen 2. 0 is a project that began in 1995 with Susan Triester. When she created her alter ego, Rosalind Brodsky, a delusional time traveller that thought she was working for the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality in the 21st century.

The Hexen Tarot is a continuation of that project, with the foundation being the Macy Conferences of 1946 1953. The deck itself, essentially reflects the creation of the internet, built around the framework of the interconnected histories of the computer and the internet. Cybernetics, counterculture, science fiction, and scientific projections of the future, government, military research programs, and social engineering.

A criticism of the deck from the tarot community has been that the only reading that could be done with the deck lies solely in the area of the work that it represents. But strangely, it seems, This is also the work that I am doing. I can imagine a 3. 0 version of this deck in 2055 containing my friends and also colleagues.

Running through the Celtic Cross reading yesterday, I got the Sun as my first card. An image that displays the text An End to Civilization with anarcho primitivism on one side and post left anarchism on the other. As the reading unfolded, I had a visceral reaction, both to the images on the cards, the cards that came, but also, I now know what it is that must be done.

This deck is now live for me, and it’s a really interesting experience. There is now a route forward. Anyway, thanks for listening.