IImmanuel Wallerstein, who developed the concept of World-Systems Theory—tracing the origins of the capitalist world-system back to the 16th century—also pointed out the parallel logics and structural similarities between the capitalist and socialist blocs.
Each offered a collective dream, a vision of the future, and—crucially—the tools to build it.
But when the Soviet Union collapsed and the West’s own values began to unravel, we found ourselves stranded—not just without a shared dream, but without the very means to dream collectively.
In place of shared visions, we inherited a shared expectation of catastrophe: a kind of global waiting room for the end of the world. And this expectation isn’t passive. It is actively produced and reproduced by those who anticipate it—a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Every day we neglect the work of collective imagination, we are, in effect, contributing to the architecture of the apocalypse.
This project is an ambitious attempt to do the opposite: to recover the possibility of collective dreaming.
Because perhaps the only real way to avert collective disaster is to dare to dream—together—once again.
The Tarot card project is an attempt to create tools or rituals that can help us imagine this collective future — not as a fixed destination, but as an ongoing process of shared reflection, intuition, and invention.