This article is a part of the room: David Graeber’s Tarot cards
Is it possible to imagine that we could now use the same set of tools to somehow survive collectively—at a time when that may no longer even be possible?
The Tarot de Marseille, one of the oldest known tarot decks, contains a hidden Jewish layer that has long been overlooked. It suggests the deck was used as a secret educational tool by crypto-Jews to preserve their traditions under persecution, turning a game of chance into a coded vessel of communal survival and instruction. Its reframes tarot not as a mystical curiosity but as a profound cultural artifact—an encrypted map of Jewish life and resilience crafted in the shadows of the Inquisition.