(Un)Known Associates - out now!

I've brought out another publication! It's a PDF! It's a deck of cards! It's an interactive thing that you can print out and use!

Here's the abstract:

(Un)Known Associates is an experimental tool for developing historiographical thinking, specifically referring to the creation of interpretations and to strengthening an understanding of the historical sublime. Itʼs a deck of cards, which are included in this guidebook, that can be used for creating your own narratives, and for exploring some aspects of the theory and philosophy of the discipline of History.

So basically it's about having a group of things (the cards) and interpreting stories out of them, kind of like how historians have a group of things (traces of the past/ 'sources') and interpret stories out of those.

In that way, it's similar to Disorder, but this time we've got an extra spicy bit: the historical sublime. The cards, like traces of the past, are ambiguous and open-ended, and we can't get logical linear narratives out of them (but we can try!).

It's a PDF, which you can view and download for free on Academia.edu and ResearchGate - if those links don't work, or it won't show up for you, give me a shout and we'll see what we can do.

It includes:

Brief words discussing William’s school, the historical sublime, Tarot/ Lenormand, and some of the imagery I’ve chosen

Cast list of the people I’ve drawn on the cards

Things you can do with the cards: ideas for spreads and games

Huge list of interpretations, if you want to understand them as Tarot/ Lenormand

Small bibliography

Download it, print it off (actually just print the cards, save some paper), and start experimenting with what you can come up with.

I have really got to stop sitting on projects and then suddenly bringing them all out at once, I brought Disorder out less than two months ago