Ex Itent Er: Encounters Around Tarot: Volume Two

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In these 2 volumes Enrique gathers fresh voices and sharp tonguestospeak of the art of Tarot as the art of livingmagically.Forty-seven tarot luminaries gather here to offeruniqueperspectives on what we can think of as divination withbones,human bones. Artists, deck creators, and modern-dayneo-platonistsfollow Enrique's lead, letting themselves beenchanted by the piperat the gate of games. Some of the centralquestions that Enriquedeals with are: do we read for the symbol, orthe image? Do we readfor the narrative that the cards create ortheir potential fortransformation? Do we read for the plot, thepoetry, or the formalproperties? We find Enrique holding the torchand asking everybodythe same questions: how do we experience thetarot? Throughsymbolic readings or through interacting with theimage? While itis clear that he goes with the latter, he giveseveryone a chanceto state their preferences. But he doesn't stopthere. He wants tosee what the argument is for such preferences.What are themotivations in considering where images take us? How dothe imagesdo that? Why do we go to fortunetellers? My owncontribution tothis is to suggest that we read cards for the magicof narrative.We go to fortunetellers to see others play with ourlives. Here are47 of them. -- CAMELIA ELIAS, "HE RECO ME: ENRIQUEENRIQUEZ'SPOETICS OF DIVINATION"