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-===== Dark Arts, Grey Areas, and Other Contingencies (CPT.r7)1\\ =====
+===== Dark Arts, Grey Areas, and Other Contingencies (CPT.r7) =====
-by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney. FoAM. (They/them/their) Recast. Harvest Moon 02020 CE.
+by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney. FoAM. (They/them/their) Recast((This text has been recast in spoken and written forms, variously. Thus RADMIN conference (RAD.r1), RADMIN Reader (RAD.r2), Medium Article (MED.r3), Terrafiction (TER.r4), CPT Lecture (CPT.r5), Thorny Conversation (THC.r6) )) Harvest Moon 02020 CE.
 //Pre-press publication for Techniques Journal of the Center for Philosophical Technologies//
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-Scattered in the wind, leaves. “Works,” “Futility,” “Power,” “Interference,” “Art,” “The Star,” “Science,” “Worry,” “Wealth,” “Adjustment” (Crowley 1974, Crowley and Harris 1976). Arcane forces of change, creating contingencies, influencing our lives, affecting our livelihoods. How can we contend with these forces? Can we approach contemporary global economics and daily life in ways symbiotic with techniques from premodern (or paramodern) crafts of magic and ritual? Is a rewilding or remaking of techno-materialist methods possible? We may speak of invocation and communing, risk and protection, care and ruin. Dark arts for dark times, capable of transforming “the darkness of the tomb into the darkness of the womb” (Kaur 2017).
+Scattered in the wind, leaves. “Works,” “Futility,” “Power,” “Interference,” “Art,” “The Star,” “Science,” “Worry,” “Wealth,” “Adjustment” ((Crowley 1974, Crowley and Harris 1976)). Arcane forces of change, creating contingencies, influencing our lives, affecting our livelihoods. How can we contend with these forces? Can we approach contemporary global economics and daily life in ways symbiotic with techniques from premodern (or paramodern) crafts of magic and ritual((For those who are not comfortable with occult terminology, “magic,” for example, can otherwise be referred to as “advanced technology.” Those who resonate with ceremony may be comfortable with spirits and spells, while others with more pragmatic lineages might prefer calling these things “clear mind” or “prayer” or “contemplation.” The more hardline rationalists or skeptics can consider this an experiment in metabelief.))? Is a rewilding or remaking of techno-materialist methods possible? We may speak of invocation and communing, risk and protection, care and ruin. Dark arts for dark times, capable of transforming “the darkness of the tomb into the darkness of the womb” ((Kaur 2017)).
 Like ceremonial magic, myths, and fairy tales, this text relies on ritual repetition. It is a recasting composed with an amalgamation of words, images, and suggestions from other places and other times. In the words of Gordon White,
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-[#] For those who are not comfortable with occult terminology, “magic,” for example, can otherwise be referred to as “advanced technology.” Those who resonate with ceremony may be comfortable with spirits and spells, while others with more pragmatic lineages might prefer calling these things “clear mind” or “prayer” or “contemplation.” The more hardline rationalists or skeptics can consider this an experiment in metabelief.
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   * Kaur, Valarie. Is This the Darkness of the Tomb—or the Darkness of the Womb? YouTube. 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uv6–2FVhA
   * Kaevats, Marten. “Estonia Considers a ’kratt Law’ to Legalise Artificial Intelligence (AI).” Medium, 26 Sept. 2017, https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/estonia-starts-public-discussion-legalising-ai-166cb8e34596
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   * Lansing, John Stephen. Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali. Princeton University Press, 2007.
   * Murphy, Chris B. “How To Use the Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich to Reduce Taxes.” Investopedia, 8 Mar. 2020, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dutch-sandwich.asp
   * Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil. 1886. Translated by Helen Zimmern. Project Gutenberg, 2009, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4363
-  * Piccini, Angela, and Kate Rich, editors. RADMIN Reader 2020. (RAD.r2), Feral Business Research Network, 2020, https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RAD-MIN_READER_2020.pdf.
+  * Piccini, Angela, and Kate Rich, editors. RADMIN Reader 2020. (RAD.r2), Feral Business Research Network, 2020, https://fo.am/documents/59/RADMIN_READER_2020.pdf
   * Rosen, Robert. Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life. Columbia Univ. Press, 1991.
   * Sarnet, Rainer, director. November. 2017; Oscilloscope Laboratories, 2018.