About the author
Suzanne Treister is a British artist known for large, research-driven projects that link the histories of technology, science fiction, and esoteric or alchemical systems, exhibited at institutions internationally. Her HEXEN 2.0 project traced connections between cybernetics, the counterculture, and the internet through a set of diagrams and a related 78-card tarot deck; the catalogue lists both the reissued Hexen 2.0 Tarot and its 2026 sequel, Hexen 5.0 Tarot, which extends the same alchemical-drawing format to synthetic biology and interplanetary technology. Rather than functioning as conventional divination tools, Treister's decks operate as artworks that use tarot's card-and-image structure to map webs of scientific and political history. They suit readers interested in art-tarot crossovers and in tarot as a research or diagrammatic medium rather than a purely divinatory one.
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💬 What our editors say about Suzanne Treister's books
“Treister’s Hexen 2.0 Tarot is a dense, intellectual exercise that demands familiarity with cybernetics, computing history, and esoteric alchemy. It is not suited for casual diviners seeking simple fortune-telling or those…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Hexen 2.0 Tarot
“Suzanne Treister’s HEXEN 5.0 Tarot is a bold, intellectually rigorous successor to its predecessor, masterfully interweaving disparate threads from ancient animism to synthetic biology. The 78 alchemically charged drawings…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Hexen 5.0 Tarot
