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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 US Army. HEXEN 2.0 delves deeper into the histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, in tandem with histories of countercultural and grass roots movements, and creates a space for the imagining of alternative future scenarios. HEXEN 2.0 charts the coming together of diverse scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, the history of the Internet, the rise of Web 2.0 and mass intelligence gathering, and the implications for the future of new systems of societal manipulation towards a control society. Furthermore, HEXEN 2.0 investigates specific critics of technological society such as Theodore Kaczynski/Unabomber, current profiles of Anarcho-Primitivists and Post-Leftists, and traces the precursory ideas of Thoreau, Heidegger, Adorno and others, in relation to fantasies of utopic/dystopic futures from science-fiction literature and film. HEXEN 2.0 brings all this material together in the form of drawings, alchemical diagrams, photographs, text works and designs for a 78 card Tarot deck, with an accompanying set of working Tarot cards published alongside the book. HEXEN 2.0 is published to coincide with an exhibition of Suzanne Treister's work at Black Dog Publishing's affiliate gallery, WORK, and a major presentation of HEXEN 2.0 at the Science Museum, London, both in Spring 2012. 130 colour & b/w illustrations

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Suzanne Treister's HEXEN2.0 is a marvellously rich, suggestive, erudite and important work....The material outcome is a set of 78 HEXEN2.0 Tarot cards and a book, both of them beautiful and stylish, and both operating at two levels, images and text. Mute Magazine Utterly hypnotising...A new generation kind of art. Tea Time in Wonderland Treister's HEXEN 2.0 art book is truly spectacular...Suzanne Treister is probably my new hero... Anna McKerrow Blogspot The works here are truly fascinating and will appeal to both art lovers and those interested in technology and its origins. The Londonist The HEXEN2.0 book would be a great delight on anyone's coffee table and the concepts and ideas presented through the medium of the Tarot could provide a wonderful talking point for years to come...In conclusion an amazing book and an amazing deck and a must for any serious Tarot collector. Paranormality Magazine Suzanne Treister's HEXEN2.0 is a marvellously rich, suggestive, erudite and important work....The material outcome is a set of 78 HEXEN2.0 Tarot cards and a book, both of them beautiful and stylish, and both operating at two levels, images and text. Mute Magazine Utterly hypnotisingA new generation kind of art. Tea Time in Wonderland Treister's HEXEN 2.0 art book is truly spectacularSuzanne Treister is probably my new hero Anna McKerrow Blogspot The works here are truly fascinating and will appeal to both art lovers and those interested in technology and its origins. The Londonist The HEXEN2.0 book would be a great delight on anyone's coffee table and the concepts and ideas presented through the medium of the Tarot could provide a wonderful talking point for years to come In conclusion an amazing book and an amazing deck and a must for any serious Tarot collector. Paranormality Magazine

Suzanne Treister's HEXEN2.0 is a marvellously rich, suggestive, erudite and important work....The material outcome is a set of 78 HEXEN2.0 Tarot cards and a book, both of them beautiful and stylish, and both operating at two levels, images and text. Mute Magazine Utterly hypnotising...A new generation kind of art. Tea Time in Wonderland Treister's HEXEN 2.0 art book is truly spectacular...Suzanne Treister is probably my new hero... Anna McKerrow Blogspot The works here are truly fascinating and will appeal to both art lovers and those interested in technology and its origins. The Londonist The HEXEN2.0 book would be a great delight on anyone's coffee table and the concepts and ideas presented through the medium of the Tarot could provide a wonderful talking point for years to come...In conclusion an amazing book and an amazing deck and a must for any serious Tarot collector. Paranormality Magazine

Suzanne Treister's HEXEN2.0 is a marvellously rich, suggestive, erudite and important work....The material outcome is a set of 78 HEXEN2.0 Tarot cards and a book, both of them beautiful and stylish, and both operating at two levels, images and text. Mute Magazine <br><br> Utterly hypnotising...A new generation kind of art. Tea Time in Wonderland <br><br> Treister's HEXEN 2.0 art book is truly spectacular...Suzanne Treister is probably my new hero... Anna McKerrow Blogspot <br><br> The works here are truly fascinating and will appeal to both art lovers and those interested in technology and its origins. The Londonist <br><br>

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Suzanne Treister studied at St Martin's School of Art and Chelsea School of Art and currently lives and works in London and Berlin. She is also the author of Hexen 2039: New Military-Occult Technologies for Psychological Warfare, a Rosalind Brodsky Research Programme and NATO: The Military Codification System for the Ordering of Everything in the World, both published by Black Dog Publishing London UK. Lars Bang Larsen is a theorist and curator who is based in Copenhagen. He is also an art historian at the University of Copenhagen.

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