Citations:arachnomancy

English citations of arachnomancy

Not fully attested (possible protoneologism)

1. The creation of a view by combining results from various areas of research into a networked whole.
   • 2004, Claudia Reiche, Verena Kuni, Cyberfeminism. Next Protocols, →ISBN, page 78:

     This was confirmed by research in Arachnomancy, a science which explores the biological and cultural evolution of Homo sapiens with respect to a net-based future, as well as the influence of future arachnids on this development (arachne = spider, mantic= a technique to get knowledge about the furture). Arachnomancy derived in a series of elegant entomological investigations allows an unexpected view into the future of earth and unveils its arachnoid structure: the dominating species ofour times, Homo sapiens, will be superseded by an arachnoid species.

   • 2012, Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti, →ISBN, page 105:

     Thus the discourse of arachnomancy can be used to explore possible evolutions of information technologies: weaving a quilt with the synapses of our brains and the sinews of our nerves.

   • 2013, Rosi Braidotti, Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, →ISBN:

     Cyber-feminists like van Oldenberg (1999) argue that the Internet or computer-mediated future can only be arachnoid, or spider-like: it functions via lines, knots, connections, relations in a manner that is also analogous to the human brain. Thus, the discourse of arachnomancy can be used to explore possible evolutions of information technologies.

Removed Quotations

I have removed the following from the main page for one of two reasons, either they don't actually include the term, or they include mention as opposed to use. [The]DaveRoss 23:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

• 1922, Mary Proctor, Legends of the Stars

  "In China it was customary at one time for the ladies of the Court, on the seventh day of the seventh month, to catch spiders and put them in incense-boxes for purposes of divination."

• 1983, Complete Bk Predictions

  SPIDERS (ARACHNOMANCY) Seeing a spider in the morning - Grief. Seeing a spider at noon - Anxiety. Seeing a spider in the evening - Financial loss. Seeing a spider spinning a web - Some sources say this indicates that there is a plot against you, others that you will receive a gift, probably new clothes.

• Unknown source

  Arachnomancy, the magick of patterns, established itself many hundreds of years ago, when weaver-women constructed ornate tapestries to chronicle events and myths that shaped their lives

• 2001, Helene von Oldenburg, “Inventing Cyberfeminist Facts”, in Technics of Cyberfeminism‎^[1]:

  Arachnomancy explores the biological and cultural evolution of Homo Sapiens with respect to a netbased future, as well as the influence of future Arachnoids. Arachnomancy is inventing a view based on scientific results through disconnecting, rearranging and combining newest results of various scientific research.