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web/historyoftarot/index.md

@@ -14,12 +14,16 @@ When we talk about Tarot cards we are talking about a deck of playing cards comp
 
 This specific deck of cards' history begins at the bottom of a well in Norther Italy, in the 1440s, where we place its first appearance in history. From there we can easily find links to the common usage of these cards in Norther Italy, from Milano to Bologna e Ferrara (Steele, 1900). These cards, initially called *Trionfi* and then *Tarocchi* are thought to have been intended to be used for card games, regardless of their occasional usage in future-telling (Dummet, 1993).  This finding helps us trace a factual beginning of Tarot but leaves an open question to how these cards gained their place as the primary tool used in modern occultism and mysticism for cartomancy. 
 
+![Image of the First Tarot Deck](Visconti-Sforza-Tarot.jpg)
+
 While this is where the story began to intricate itself, it can still be seen that the first wide spread future-telling uses appeared in France in the 18th century. 
 
 At this point the history of tarot beings to be influenced by what each fortune teller imagined the history of the cards to be. To fully disclose this I will first attempt to estimate the most notable occultists that used the cards and wrote historical notations about their deviance and then the stories they told about them.
 
 The first encounter we have between Tarot and magical theory and practice happens in the *Monde primitif,* an incredibly long essay about Tarot cards written in 1781 by Antoine Court de Gébelin. With this text, the pastor began what would be the endless repository of arcane esoteric wisdom within Tarot that will follow the cards for generations (Chisholm, 1911). In this text, Gébeling attributed the cards' origin to ancient Egypt, a theory that is to this day shared as truthful. This belief was based on an erroneous link to "The Book of Thoth", an ancient Egyptian text about magic that is believed to have been spread through Europe by Romani people. This belief was then substantiated by a similar essay by the by the comte de Mellet(Decker, ). Promptly, a Parisian fortune teller named Jean-Baptiste Alliette, professionally known as Etteilla, having found these theories, adapted the esoteric view of the cards to his own uses. He switching his own practice from traditional French piquet cartomancy to the use of a self-made Tarot card deck. This deck was based on the previously shared Hermetic ideologies and was named "The Book of Toth"(same).
 
+![Image from Etteilla's Deck](etteilla.jpg)
+
 The next fundamental spin that was given to the cards' background was down by Éliphas Levi, another French esotericist. Levi repudiated Etteilla's theory and integrated a version of the cards that was closer to the original to his own Cabalistic magical system. However historically mistaken was Levi's understanding of the cards' travel from Egypt to Judea into Jewish tradition, it nonetheless revolutionised the cards in ways that live on till today. His Cabalistic theory about signs being letter, letters being absolute ideas and absolute ideas being numbers can be seen in even modern iterations of tarot.
 
 From here on over, Tarot's journey speeds up as the cards leave France and become absorbed into new esoteric movements like Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism and spiritualism (Decker, Depaulis & Dummet, 1996).
@@ -28,9 +32,11 @@ Before we make a jump through time to the next biggest relevant development of T
 
 This last theory is harder to trace back to one esoteric influence, but nonetheless claims a Chinese origin to the cards. Most likely, this is due to the similarity with the I Ching, a divination manual from around 1000 BC. The manual was grounded in cleromancy, the production of random numbers to predict divine intention. However, there is no traceable connection between Chinese cleromancy and Tarot divination. Modern analyses of Chinese Tarot divination draw direct correlation between Western occultism and Tarot divination, leaving little room to imagine any direct causation starting from China (Fu, Li, Lee, 2002).
 
-For the purpose of this recalling but unsurprisingly for those familiar, the next big step will bring us to the late19th century in Britain, in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn was a secret society devoted to occult Hermetic Kabbalah and one of the largest single influences on Western occultism as a whole (Jenkins, 2000). While the society itself had a wide curriculum, including astrology, alchemy and geomancy(soil divination), our only concern at the moment is with their links to Tarot cards. In 1909, two
+For the purpose of this recalling but unsurprisingly for those familiar, the next big step will bring us to the late19th century in Britain, in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn was a secret society devoted to occult Hermetic Kabbalah and one of the largest single influences on Western occultism as a whole (Jenkins, 2000). While the society itself had a wide curriculum, including astrology, alchemy and geomancy(soil divination), our only concern at the moment is with their links to Tarot cards. 
+   
+In 1909, two mystics and members of the Golden Dawn, A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith published with the Rider Company a deck of re-made Tarot cards based on the society's magic system. These cards, later known as the Ride-Waite Tarot(Dean, 2015). This deck was based on the Sola Busca deck, with symbolism being taken from Levi's descriptions and Egyptian and Christian symbolism. This deck has become the paradigm and touchstone through which modern occultists think of Tarot. Between the distribution of this deck and the use of the cards in the Golden Dawn, it became axiomatic among followers many traditions of mysticism that the Tarot is an essential component of any occult science.
 
-mystics and members of the Golden Dawn, A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith published with the Rider Company a deck of re-made Tarot cards based on the society's magic system. These cards, later known as the Ride-Waite Tarot(Dean, 2015). This deck was based on the Sola Busca deck, with symbolism being taken from Levi's descriptions and Egyptian and Christian symbolism. This deck has become the paradigm and touchstone through which modern occultists think of Tarot. Between the distribution of this deck and the use of the cards in the Golden Dawn, it became axiomatic among followers many traditions of mysticism that the Tarot is an essential component of any occult science.
+![Image from the Raider-Waite deck](Rider-Waite_Pents.jpg)
 
 Nowadays, Tarot is emblematic and incredibly wide spread as the most common future-telling method and device. Thousands and thousands of different formats exist, often falling under the category of Oracle cards and as such not having the clear formatting rules of Tarot but still implicating divination and self-reflection through the interpretation of allegorical illustration.
 

web/intro_aglaia/intro_aglaia.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ interaction, relationships, grief and healing.
 The eventual product of this process is a console, a magical object, a
 wooden container, a promising healing. How the unpacking of notions of
 games, rituals, ideology, superstructure in relation to the
-witch-hunting can become the midwifery of a healing box? How practices
+witch-hunting can become the midwiferies of a healing box? How practices
 of heal and care can work as counter-hegemonic acts that can cure and
 liberate our souls and bodies from patriarchical and capitalistic
 fetters?
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ territory, to invite those who would like to join us.
 
 > *"What if you are playing tetris and the tetris gods give you
 > something apart from the usual seven tetrominoes, like an unexpected
-> pregnancy or the end of capitalism?"*
+> pregnancy or the end of capitalism?",(Steven)*
 
 Starting with rituals we can claim that they can be understood as
 instruments in the struggle for the exercise of power. Organized by
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ politics and objectives, etc.
 > concerned with quite ordinary activities, that what it describes and
 > displays is, in principle, possible for every occurrence of these
 > acts. But it relies, as well, for its power on the fact that, in
-> actuality, such possibilities cannot be realized.* "
+> actuality, such possibilities cannot be realized.(Smith,1980)* "
 >
 > *"Ideology talks of actions: I shall talk of actions inserted into
 > practices. And I shall point out that these practices are governed by
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ politics and objectives, etc.
 > existence of an ideological apparatus(\...)Ideas have disappeared as
 > such to the precise extend that it has emerged that their existence is
 > inscribed in the actions of practices governed by rituals defined in
-> the last instance by an ideological apparatus"*
+> the last instance by an ideological apparatus",(Althusser,1970)*
 
 Similarly, videogames create worlds. Often, those worlds mirror our own,
 reproducing certain ideals and values as norms through their narrative,
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ characteristics.
 > set of subsidiary tools capable of rapidly adjusting ideology en
 > masse. In general, media emerge not to meet the demands or desires of
 > individual users but to accommodate what the predominant mode of
-> production requires."*
+> production requires.",(Osterweil,2018)*
 
 Our intention was to look into rituals and their overlap with video
 games as a way to explore \"forbidden\" or otherwise lost knowledge
@@ -107,14 +107,14 @@ creating games together.
 > that the crux of the social reproduction is happening when the choices
 > you have made in the game are broadcasted. Did you create a
 > heteronormative white thin nuclear family that made a lot of money? or
-> did you choose to play differently?"*
+> did you choose to play differently?",(Ada)*
 >
 > *"The Communist Party of Second Life (CPSL) aims to be a Marxist,
 > internationalist and revolutionary organization for all communists in
 > Second Life. The CPSL aims to spread understanding of Marxism among SL
 > citizens, to organise support in SL for the class struggle in RL,
 > including all struggles of the working class against imperialism and
-> the bourgeoisie, its state and wars."*
+> the bourgeoisie, its state and wars.",(Lydia)*
 >
 > *"The act of the modder's appropriation of the pre-existing game is
 > also similar to Michel de Certeau's cultural 'poaching'.De Certeau's
@@ -123,22 +123,23 @@ creating games together.
 > using. Rather than being passive consumers, ordinary people invent
 > varied subversive tactics for stealing back the given of everyday
 > life. De Certeau writes, 'Everyday life invents itself by poaching in
-> countless ways on the property of others'.*
+> countless ways on the property of others'."(Schleiner,2017)*
 
 Meanwhile, we went through the witch as a magical practicioner, as a
-resisting body, a border figure. Federici presents the witch "as the
+resisting body, a border figure. *"Federici presents the witch "as the
 embodiment of a world of female subjects that capitalism had to destroy:
 the heretic, the healer, the disobedient wife, the woman who dared to
 live alone, the obeha woman who poisoned the master's food and inspired
-the slaves to revolt. Behind the witch hunt, she uncovers a joint effort
+the slaves to revolt." Behind the witch hunt, she uncovers a joint effort
 by the Church and the state to establish mechanisms of gendered control
 of bodies that immanently resisted newly instituted regimes of
-productive and reproductive work. "*Similarly given by Deleuze and
-Guattari "sorcerers have always held the anomalous position, at the edge
+productive and reproductive work"(Timofeeva,2019).*
+
+*"Sorcerers have always held the anomalous position, at the edge
 of the fields or woods. They haunt the fringes. They are at the
-borderline of the village, or between villages."But sorcerers not only
+borderline of the village, or between villages. But sorcerers not only
 exist at the border: as anomalous beings, they are the border itself. In
-other words, the borderline passes through their bodies."*
+other words, the borderline passes through their bodies.",(Deleuze, Guattari,1980)*
 
 How the understanding of the witchs' hunting that happened a few
 centuries ago in relation with the figure of the witch as marginal,

web/oracle/interpretationtext.md

@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
-*He who dreams of drinking wine may weep when morning comes; he who dreams of weeping may in the morning go off to hunt. While he is dreaming he does not know it is a dream, and in his dream he may even try to interpret a dream. Only after he wakes does he know it was a dream. And someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream.*
+---
+title: Oracolotto
+author: Ada
+
+---
+
+:::::
+
+*They who dream of drinking wine may weep when morning comes; they who dream of weeping may in the morning go off to hunt. While they are dreaming they do not know it is a dream, and in their dream they may even try to interpret a dream. Only after they wake do they know it was a dream. And someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream.*
 
 *And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too.*
 
 **Zhuàngzi**
+**莊子**
 
-### ✧ Preface
+# ✧ Preface
 
 Have you ever woken up feeling like there is a word, at the tip of your tongue, in a language you don't quite understand?
 
@@ -27,6 +36,10 @@ There is a possibility, that you have read thus far because you wish to remember
 
 You may also choose your own path, disregard what I said and make your own game, read old or future dreams or even play the lottery. The tools are now in your hands.
 
+:::::
+
+:::::{.hide-on-web}
+
 ### ✧ How to care for the Oracolotto
 You may have been told that objects do not have spirit and have believed it. If you have, I suggest you tuck the inner skeptic into bed and let the curious child out to play for the following sections. You see, the Oracolotto, like any Tarot or Oracle, does not believe itself to be an objects. In fact, it thinks that no object is just a thing, but most exist in the spiritual plane as well. As such, all objects have a soul, a spirit that connects to yours.
 
@@ -399,10 +412,4 @@ The Good Wine may not be drunk yet, completion is not within reach yet. The end
 **✳** tarot correspondence: 20. the world.
 
 **✳** zodiac correspondence: all signs.
-
-Bibliography
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-
--   Paola De Sanctis Ricciardone, *Il tipografo celeste. Il gioco del lotto tra letteratura e demologia nell'Italia dell'Ottocento e oltre*, Bari, Dedalo, 1987. ISBN 88-220-6066-0
--   Michele Zezza, *La smorfia ossia Il nuovo metodo per perdere denaro, e cervello con maggior sicurezza al gioco del lotto*, Napoli, Torchi della Società filomatica, 1835.
--   莊子*,* 齊物論*, 12. Zhuàngzi, "Discussion on making all things equal," 12. from Zhuàngzi, Burton Watson trans., Chuang Tzu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 43. ISBN 978-0-231-10595-8 [1]*
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web/pacifist-fortnite/index.md

@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ author: Stephen
 :::::{#fortnite .has-images}
 # Sometimes the world as it is and the world as it could be are devastatingly close to each other.
 
-Is there any point in imagining something that is so similar to the nightmare we already live in? The future is a dream but it's just that dream where you remember putting your keys somewhere but where, and you're wandering around looking for them for what feels like hours. Was it real or not isnt important you were still there. Why are we staying here, what's even here for us? If you don't get them, they'll get you first. Then you wake up and you still can't find the fucking keys. But sometimes it's sunny and you're standing there and there's something cinematic about the whole thing, is it worth it just to be there for that maybe. There's really no difference between a dream about falling and a dream about flying. 
+Is there any point in imagining something that is so similar to the nightmare we already live in? The future is a dream but it's just that dream where you remember putting your keys somewhere, but where? You're wandering around looking for them for what feels like hours. Whether it was real or not isn't important, you were still there. Why do we stay here? What's even here for us? If you don't get them first, they'll get you. Then you wake up and you still can't find the fucking keys. But sometimes it's sunny and you're standing there and there's something cinematic about the whole thing, is it worth it just to be there for that maybe. There's really no difference between a dream about falling and a dream about flying. 
 
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-You search the entire planet, all seven planets, drinking every last drop, and still no fucking keys. You're just watching the whole thing anyway so enjoy it I guess. If you get the rifle you can use the scope on it to see things in the distance, but then again maybe you don't need to see that far. The start is always the best part. Maybe I left them in the bathroom for some reason? Can I help them, even one of them? They are all so busy killing each other I don't think they can hear. The forests are beautiful here. One time I sat down with some of the bots and really got to know them. Until the players arrive they just sit there together, chatting. They're really nice actually. And then a player ran up beside us, saw that we weren't trying to hurt them, and left. Maybe they were helped, or changed somehow.
+You search the entire planet, all seven planets, drinking every last drop, and still no fucking keys. You're just watching the whole thing anyway so enjoy it, I guess. If you get the rifle you can use the scope on it to see things in the distance, but then again, maybe you don't need to see that far. The start is always the best part. Maybe I left them in the bathroom? Can I help them, even one of them? They are all so busy killing each other I don't think they can hear. The forests are beautiful here. One time I sat down with some of the bots and really got to know them. Until the players arrive they just sit there together, chatting. They're really nice actually. And then a player ran up beside us, saw that we weren't trying to hurt them, and left. Maybe they were helped, or changed somehow.
 
 The only reason I'm still here is because you're still here.