Posts tagged magic
Vaadhoo Island, Maldives
I keep hoping this will happen when I visit Maldives next.
to this day, the most extraordinary thing I have ever seen was reflected stars mingling with bioluminescence on a still and cloudless night
cloudbusting/wilhelm reich themed drawing for krystal’s kate bush fanzine‘i can’t hide you from the government’
(via ay-cono)
crystal-owner privilege
source: Amanda Wachob
A bloodline is a technique that is commonly used when tattooing portraits. It is a non-permanent line made with water. A symbol is a shape that communicates a thought. It is intended that as your body heals the mark, the symbol’s energy is absorbed.
ATTN: EVERYONE
also fun fact about this ABRACADABRA word arrangement: it’s a charm for curing disease. the disease is supposed to disappear like the word, the word “abracadabra” being thought to be derived from the Aramaic from “with my words I create”, hence its use in written or incantation based magic. slowly shortening a demon’s name in this way is part of many banishment rites.
so it’s a SUPER APPROPRIATE choice for a disappearing tattoo is what I’m trying to say
HEXEN 2.0 Suzanne Treister 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. The project simultaneously looks at diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to advances in technology including the claims of Anarcho-Primitivism and Post Leftism, Theodore Kaczynski/The Unabomber, Technogaianism and Transhumanism, and traces precursory ideas such as those of Thoreau, Warren, Heidegger and Adorno in relation to visions of utopic and dystopic futures from science-fiction literature and film.
Based on actual events, people, histories and scientific projections of the future, and consisting of alchemical diagrams, a Tarot deck, photo-text works, pencil drawings, a video and a website, HEXEN 2.0 offers a space where one may use the works as a tool to envision possible alternative futures.
HEXEN 2.0 is the sequel to HEXEN 2039 which imagined new technologies for psychological warfare through investigating links between the occult and the military in relation to histories of witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing and behaviour control experiments of the U.S. Army.
Suzanne Treister
ALCHEMY 2007-8
A series of works which transcribe front pages of international daily newspapers into alchemical drawings, reframing the world as a place animated by strange forces, powers and belief systems. These works redeploy the languages and intentions of alchemy: the transmutation of materials and essences and the revealed understanding of the world as a text, as a realm of powers and correspondences which, if properly understood, will allow man to take on transformative power.
it’s like stealing but you don’t have to worry about getting someone fired
