Suzanne Treister
2023-24

HEXEN 5.0

HEXEN 5.0 includes include 78 tarot works, 6 large diagrams and other works.

HEXEN 5.0, an update of HEXEN 2.0 (2011), presents a critical, historical and mystical exploration of new global developments in terrestrial and interplanetary technologies, science and communications, corporate and governmental forces, the ecosystem and climate crisis, recent and traditional fields of knowledge and spirituality, new branches of bio/socio/political theory, contemporary countercultural and futuristic movements, new directions in science-fiction, and proposed possible solutions for an ethical survival of the human race.

The visual structure of the works is largely based on alchemical drawings of the 13th - 18th centuries, entwining these subjects into a holistic mystical space where they become differently animated and resonant. In alchemical drawings, science, art and religion/spirituality co-exist, echoing the recently converging fields illuminated in some of the cards, such as Spiritual Ecology, Nexus thinking and Earth System Science, fields which may lead to better solutions for the climate crisis and to returning the planet towards a self-regulating system.

Where HEXEN 2.0 analysed the legacy of cybernetics as embodied in Web 2.0 and systems of control, showing how Web 2.0 works as a societal controlling system, HEXEN 5.0 traces cybernetics' relevance to whole earth systems and how the cybernetic self-regulating feedback loops of the planetary ecosystem, which we have sent out of whack, need to be addressed through an understanding of the workings of the total global ecosystem. This is embodied in the aims of Earth System Science and potentially in an even more holistic system incorporating traditional knowledges and spirituality.

The published deck of tarot cards is intended to be used as a tool for groups to discuss and envision positive alternative futures and may be used in conjunction with HEXEN 2.0 Tarot deck.

HEXEN 5.0 Tarot Deck
published by
cosmogenesis
Oct 2025

HEXEN 5.0/Main Diagram

(1 work)

HEXEN 5.0/TAROT

(78 works)

HEXEN 5.0/Historical Diagrams

(5 works)

HEXEN 5.0/AI

(15 works)

United Nations Headquarters and Citywide bus shelters, NYC, USA
Future Ours
(1 work)
In response to United Nations ‘Summit of the Future
13/16-29 September 2024
Further detalis

Suzanne Treister on Critical Futurism, Interview with Peter Bauman for Le Random,
November 2024

Dreaming at CERN, Dialogue with Patricia Domínguez, Burlington Contemporary, UK
12 September 2024
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Le tarot comme outil de réflexion non linéaire, chez Suzanne Treister
Interview with Marie Lechner for the seminar, Jouer, Déjouer, Musée français de la carte à jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
13 December 2024
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