Volume X

Prophecy and Fortune

Every prediction is a description of the person selling it.

Volume X is about the future as a printed product: cartomancy decks, almanacs, physiognomic charts, financial prognostications, and the long profitable habit of selling certainty. It is the volume in which the thesis of the archive becomes literal. These Entities were manufactured to make an invisible thing feel measurable, which is exactly what a market does.

Records 0910 to 1010. Commercial provenance is stated on every record, because most of these plates were advertising.