Arising from the Underground

The constant drive towards “progress,” a requirement for Western modernity, has left an ever-growing catastrophe in its wake. When we realize that capitalist development will not solve our problems, we face a new promise—that of darkness, ancestors, and ruins. Here, we make connections between speculative histories, witchcraft, and the underground. We go beneath, into the roots of hidden forests, into the swamps, the night. We are a multiplicity, a coven, an ever-expanding network as wide as the dead. Gathered around the witch, we draw together multiple subjects to find camaraderie in the margins of colonization. We enter the web that binds us: signs emerge as guideposts, turning to ciphers and sigils, prophecies of incredible beings—plant allies, future guardians, survivors, and algorithms that revolt. Horizon. Revolution. Sprout. Dawn.