Cyberwitches Manifesto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beyond the limits of the body, individual existence
is deployed within the multiple mediations
that unite humanity to the world.

The mission of design is to improve the world's livability.

The designer participates in the invention of life models:
it is a ceremonial project.
We are creators of situations made up of images.

Ecumene refers to the relationship of humans to their environment:
sensitive and concrete, symbolic and technical.

Symbols create internal conditions (attitudes and feelings
deeply rooted) that make people feel comfortable
or to accept social and political arrangements
that correspond to the symbolic system.

Anyone can do the magic work, which changes
life and renews the world, magic that is
the art of changing consciousness at will.

 

Bruno Latour

 

Alain Findeli

 

Alessandro Mendini

 

Augustin Berque

 

Carol P. Christ

 

Starhawk /
Dion Fortune

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We produce the fictions that shape our culture, our values,
our expectations and our thresholds of acceptability.

We produce our environment
and we are produced by our environment.

Symbols have both psychological and political effects.

Fiction changes the world.

 

 

 

 

cyber-resistance

 

VNS Matrix

 

Gynepunk

 

 

 

but...

 

 

 

spirituality 2.0

 

groupes privés sur facebook

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

cyber-magical-resistance

 

 

W.I.T.C.H

 

 

#bindtrump

 

           

 

 


 

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Cyberwitches

manifesto

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

One knot in time
then the world changed
then the memory disappeared
then we couldn't understand life anymore
neither forward nor backward.*




It’s time

to stop dodging; to stop fudging
ourselves; to face the current changes.
Not without anxiety but with determination.

Let's unite our voices:

We do not defend nature, we are the nature defending
itself.
— Nature, Gaïa, neither mother nor sister,
but force beyond the languages that have
difficulty with the post-genre.

Let's acknowledge

that the master's tools
will not dismantle the master's house.
The very technologies that was reason to dream
of new forms of politica empowerment has turned out
to be the means of surveillance and control for everybody.

It is time

to leave the dualist labyrinths. But let's not be Icarus:
the Sirens are our sisters and we are too keen on
the sensuality of the stones and the
tenderness of the trees to
give in to
transhumanist
pride.

Let's connect

from Earth
to the Noosphere without
rummaging, scratching and desecrate Gaia's
entrails, without spitting in the face of Heaven and
Time the deadly fumes that are mortgaging our futures.

Let’s be actual "saboteurs of big daddy mainframe".

Let's profess

technological autonomy and all forms of emancipation
and empowerment. Let's be inspired by W.I.T.C.H.,
VNS Matrix, Gynepunk, Reclaiming, technoshamanism,
xenofeminism, hyperstition, afrofuturism
and ancestorfuturism without us
adhering entirely to one
or the other.

Let's practice

hermeticism
with a second degree.
We know that speech is the active
material of magic. Let's sometimes try this
alchemy of the verb that modifies reality through

words. Our words have little hybris. They caress the daisies
rather than helping to instantiate the magic. Our power is
domestic and vernacular. Our sorority protects us from
slipping from witch to woman of power. Our
do-it-yourself practices escape religions.
We are not one but labile
& evanescent.

Let's practice

this applied science of
the creation of forms by energy
and the direction of energy by forms.
The forms, structures, images that we ma-
-nipulate will sometimes lead us out of the
limits imposed by our culture. Our will,
our actions, our directed energy,
our choices made not once but
several times: this is
our magic.

We live
in this 21st
century that use to be
dreamed and is now feared.

Let's invent

for ourselves experimental origins
and traditions. Let's not believe
in divinity, let's connect
with Her.

Let's understand

that everything is interconnected,
that consciousness gives
shape to reality and
reality gives shape
to consciousness.

Let's use

social networks to gather
in spiritual and political rituals. Let's use
smartphones and tarot cards to connect to spirits.

Let's manufacture

DIY devices to listen to invisible worlds.
Let's our astral body travels
through the cosmic plane
of radio waves.

Let's mix

ancestral and
invented methods to reveal
the porosity of the worlds — ours,
the Gods’ we no longer believe in,
the free cosmogony and fictiona
entities' that we create.

We are

corporeal,
biological, incarnate entities,
but also and simultaneously: relational
and informational beings. We are entities with digital
extensions. We live in a physical, technical and digital world.
Let's be hybrid entities living in an hybrid world.
Let's take care of our bodies-hub-server.

Let's treasure

our contemporary everyday
technical equipment. Let
it be part to our
ritual forms.

 

 

 

 

Let's say the words.
Let's seek for upsurge.
Let's make the gestures.
Let's manipulate the objects.
Let's perform technophile rituals.
Let's summon archetypal survivals.
Let's call for the emergence of egregore.

Let's seek for a fleeting energetic symbiosis.
Let's practice this art of changing consciousness at will.

Let's be cyberwitches.

Cyberwitches Lucile Olympe Haute



Photography: Lucile Olympe Haute, Cyberwitches, rituel with Chloé Lavalette, Silvie Mexico, Hélène Mourrier & Lizzie Saint Septembre, 2017.
Quote: Rosmarie Waldrop, Clef pour comprendre la langue de l’Amérique, French translation by Paol Keineg, 2013 (1994).
Web-to-print graphic design by L·◌·H with the support of Quentin Juhel & Julie Blanc (PrePostPrint).
Type: Bluu Next, Jean-Baptiste Morizot (Velvetyne). Printed in France by contrado.


Lucile Olympe Haute,
Imbolc 2019.