YOUR LIFE IN A NEW LIGHT
The Materialist Tarot is a skeptical yet whimsical take on tarot that allies itself with the sense of historical uprootedness that pervades our post-modern lives. In place of the traditional suits, which once spoke of an illusive world of forms, ideals, and wills, the Materialist Tarot--having used up and spit out the spiritual-- now turns to the material remains of our exhausted earth. Yet in these remains, in the ashes and fallen teeth, in the subterranean vestigal infrastractures, and in the crossed signals of our multimediated detritus, there are signs of hope. The Materialist Tarot is a deck that cuts a raw deal, cuts to the bone, and can be quite painful to confront, yet somehow has a reparative effect. It draws from a world that is posthuman and postessentialist and postidealist, yet is not paranoid about our futures. We must work with what we have been dealt.
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Materialist Tarot is based on the proposition that symbolic representation is not simply a mode for understanding the world, but is the very existence of the world. Energy is radio waves, smoke leaves behind ash, water flows through the ground, our bodily lives depend upon the matter that makes up our bones, teeth, and guts. The Materialist Tarot shifts the metaphysical themes of tarot into material forms, taking tarot's archetypes and re-adorning them, giving them new form. Its symbolic structure draws on metaphors that are alive in the world, metaphors that are not simply indulgences we can partake of on occasion, but metaphors that we must live with at all times.
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