Glitchcraft: A Treatise on Futuristic Magick
VUCA-2 — deepfates
12 June 2019
CONTENTS
- A Brief History of Wicca
- The Witch
- Conjuration and Magic
- Spellcraft
- Ritual and Ritual Monsters
- Mass for the Dead
- A Witch’s Guide to the Underworld
- The Witch and the Magic of the Stars
- The Witches’ Hieroglyphic Monad
- The Master of the Master
- Witchcraft and Vampirism
- The Shadow of the Witch
- The Forbidden Art of Magick
- The Precious Gift of the Witch
- The Fire of the Gods
- The Dark Forest
- The Pool of Lost Wishes
- The Witch’s Knot
- The Golden Goddess and the Witches’ Sabbath
- The Boundaries of the Ancient Mysteries
- The Book of Shadows
The method was recursive table of contents prompting. Prompt GPT-2 with a book title and “CONTENTS:”, generate tables of contents, curate the best chapter titles across multiple runs, then prompt each chapter individually with several generations each.
Chapter One opens with “The Gnostic Fire of the Gods” and talks about pyres, the Magus-God, sacred flames, and sphinxes in a cadence that sounds like it means something. The generated text reads like occult instruction that’s been dissolved and reconstituted — familiar enough to follow, wrong enough to unsettle.
I took the book to a gathering of magicians and we tested several of the incantations aloud.
“this is spooky”
“what the actual fuck”
“please destroy this permanently”
Published under the imprint VUCA-2 — named after my first bot, a chaos oracle I’d built three years earlier.