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 ===== Dark Arts, Grey Areas, and Other Contingencies (CPT.r7) ===== ===== 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, variouslyThus 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// //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,  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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-[#] 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) 
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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. 
  
 ==== Communing with Externalities ==== ==== Communing with Externalities ====
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-Magical techniques can help discern patterns in complex situations and help find relationships that may not have been apparent otherwise. In looking beyond appearances, it’s essential to understand that any insights gained through these techniques are often subjective and context specific. This is not to say they are without importance or significance (Harvey 2015, Barthes 1957, Bennett 2016, Rosen 1991, etc2). They can provide ways to face the unknown. They can be life changing yet disappear like smoke. They can become tools of liberation or of oppression. They can show the way yet also deceive, mislead, and distract. Their effectiveness relies on the work of the practitioner, on situated knowledge, and setting. Not all techniques “work” in all situations. If results are more easily explained by chance or coincidence, what can the coincidences themselves tell us? What can the tools of probability or statistics help illuminate? What can be learned through repetition, testing, or further experimentation? +Magical techniques can help discern patterns in complex situations and help find relationships that may not have been apparent otherwise. In looking beyond appearances, it’s essential to understand that any insights gained through these techniques are often subjective and context specific. This is not to say they are without importance or significance (Harvey 2015, Barthes 1957, Bennett 2016, Rosen 1991, etc.((Further reading and related resonances see Federici 2004, Sarnet 2017, Solnit 2016, Scott 1999, Stengers and Pignarre 2012, White 2016 b)) ). They can provide ways to face the unknown. They can be life changing yet disappear like smoke. They can become tools of liberation or of oppression. They can show the way yet also deceive, mislead, and distract. Their effectiveness relies on the work of the practitioner, on situated knowledge, and setting. Not all techniques “work” in all situations. If results are more easily explained by chance or coincidence, what can the coincidences themselves tell us? What can the tools of probability or statistics help illuminate? What can be learned through repetition, testing, or further experimentation? 
  
 When livelihoods are at stake, you cannot always depend on magic alone. A multifaceted approach can improve the odds. Understand the mysteries of accounting and alchemy of feeding the hungry. There is Art in finding tools appropriate for the Work (Lansing 2007, Stengers 2012). Find where strengths lie, be aware of weak points, learn the limits and edges of the structures that you engage with. Methods can exist in superposition, modes and madness and meaning can coexist. Animist worlds, the enchanted world, Material World™️, and the world created in darkness all continue to exist. Every origin myth is true. Every scientific theory is improved by asking to be disproved. When livelihoods are at stake, you cannot always depend on magic alone. A multifaceted approach can improve the odds. Understand the mysteries of accounting and alchemy of feeding the hungry. There is Art in finding tools appropriate for the Work (Lansing 2007, Stengers 2012). Find where strengths lie, be aware of weak points, learn the limits and edges of the structures that you engage with. Methods can exist in superposition, modes and madness and meaning can coexist. Animist worlds, the enchanted world, Material World™️, and the world created in darkness all continue to exist. Every origin myth is true. Every scientific theory is improved by asking to be disproved.
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   * 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    * 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    * 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.   * 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.   * Sarnet, Rainer, director. November. 2017; Oscilloscope Laboratories, 2018.
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