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- | ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | + | ===== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ===== |
- | ... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 | + | ... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 by FoAM.Earth |
- | We spent two weeks at the ASU campus, inquiring about existing and potential relationships between people and the desert. We interrogated existing myths underlying contemporary lifestyles and re-imagining | + | We spent two weeks at the ASU campus, inquiring about existing and potential relationships between people and the desert. We interrogated existing myths underlying contemporary lifestyles and re-imagined |
- | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary | + | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary |
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+ | Further notes on: [[futuring]] | [[propositions]] | [[resonances]] | ||
Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | ||
Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | ||
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+ | (& Nik Gaffney behind the camera) | ||
- | === guiding themes === | ||
- | __**Desertification**__ | + | ==== D&S themes ==== |
- | | + | **Desertification** |
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* Humans come and go | * Humans come and go | ||
* (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations | * (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations | ||
- | __**Probabilistic Future Preparedness**__ | + | **Probabilistic Future Preparedness** |
* Phoenix holding onto permanence | * Phoenix holding onto permanence | ||
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- | __**Attunement**__ | + | **Attunement** |
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* conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | ||
- | __**Vampiric and zombie | + | **Zombie |
* Shadows | * Shadows | ||
* Ghost towns | * Ghost towns | ||
- | * Haunted utopias | + | * Haunted |
* Troubled past | * Troubled past | ||
* Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | * Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | ||
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- | === core questions === | + | ==== Core questions |
- | | + | **What are the (environmental) |
+ | * What/how to extrapolate local conditions to other deserts and environments on their way to become deserts? | ||
- | | + | **What does a thalient laboratory in the desert look like?** |
- | * How to translate animist attitudes into worldviews compatible with contemporary techno-materialist societies? | + | * How to translate animist attitudes into worldviews compatible with contemporary techno-materialist societies? |
- | * How to (re)animate pre-modern sensibilities without dualisms of light/dark, good/evil, love/ | + | * How to (re)animate pre-modern sensibilities without dualisms of light/dark, good/evil, love/ |
- | * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the ' | + | * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the ' |
- | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? | + | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? |
- | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? | + | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? |
+ | **What might urban futures in the American South West look like?** | ||
+ | * How to turn zombie/ | ||
+ | * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? | ||
* Why attempt to build cities in the desert? | * Why attempt to build cities in the desert? | ||
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- | * How to turn zombie utopias into ' | + | |
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- | === hypotheses === | + | |
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- | * The only way we can adapt or mitigate climate change and other environmental and cultural crises is with a change | + | |
- | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) | + | |
- | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts | + | |
- | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers | + | |
- | * We need a new form of geomancy | + | |
- | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | + | |
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- | * We need (to become) human receptors and listening devices. Practice the craft of silence. Heterogeneous hearing. Tuning to the world. There are others listening too. We can hear each other if we pay attention. | + | |
- | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. Witnessing, weaving threads of connection with other places and other people (FoAM) | + | |
- | * Our language could liquefy | + | |
- | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | + | |
- | * We are uncovering sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries | + | |
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- | * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, | + | |
- | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | + | |
- | * Objectives obscure progress | + | |
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- | === reading, seeing, experiencing === | + | |
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- | * Mythologies - Roland Barthes | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * Book of Sand - Italo Calvino | + | |
- | * Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson | + | |
- | * The Enchantment of Modern Life - Jane Bennett | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * Dust studies - Jay Owens | + | |
- | * Minutes to Midnight - Trent Parke | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * Anthropology in the time of the Anthropocene - Bruno Latour | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * City and the City - China Mieville | + | |
- | * Perdido Street Station - China Mieville | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * Customs in common - EP Thompson | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands - The good-natured feminist: eco-feminism and the quest for democracy | + | |
- | * Trinh Minh-Ha: Writing post-colonialism and feminism | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * Xenogenesis - Octavia Butler | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * Too like the lightning - Ada Palmer | + | |
- | * The Laundry series - Charles Stross | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * The word for world is forest - Ursula Leguin | + | |
- | * How forests think - Eduardo Kohn | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * Crystal Radio | + | |
- | * 100 year roulette | + | |
- | * C14 Clocks | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * Geology of media - Jussi Parikka | + | |
- | * Finite media - Sean Cubitt | + | |
- | * Panpsychism (& Noumenautics - [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * Desert Solitaire - Edward Abby | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * The Imperative - Alphonso Lingis | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning - Marcus Coates | + | |
- | * Point Omega - Don DeLillo | + | |
- | * Vilém Flusser - Into the Universe of Technical Images | + | |
- | * Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau - Blakey & Ranney | + | |
- | * Roadside Geology of Arizona - Halka Chronic | + | |
- | * Q Is for Quicken - Sha Xin Wei | + | |
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- | A few more resonances... | + | |
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- | ===stray photons=== | + | |
{{> | {{> | ||
- | {{> | + | ==== Hypotheses ==== |
- | {{>http://www.flickr.com/ | + | **We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) by changing mindset/worldview and their underlying myths.** |
+ | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. | ||
+ | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, | ||
+ | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) | ||
+ | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers | ||
+ | * We need a new form of geomancy | ||
+ | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries | ||
- | {{> | + | **We can become human receptors and listening devices** |
+ | * We practice the craft of silence and heterogeneous hearing to help us attune to our surroundings. | ||
+ | * At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. | ||
+ | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. We witness and weave threads of connection with other people and places (FoAM) | ||
+ | * Our language can liquefy | ||
+ | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | ||
- | {{> | ||
- | {{> | + | **The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, |
+ | * It is possible to thrive | ||
+ | * Objectives obscure progress | ||
+ | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts | ||
+ | * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias | ||
+ | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | ||
- | {{> | + | {{> |
- | {{> | ||
- | {{> | + | ==== Methods ==== |
- | {{>http://www.flickr.com/ | + | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, |
+ | * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | ||
+ | * walking | ||
+ | * fieldwork | ||
+ | * inquiry (critical, embodied...) | ||
+ | * experiential futures and speculative design | ||
+ | * action research | ||
+ | * contemporary rituals and peak experiences | ||
+ | * contemplative practices and attunement | ||
+ | * writing | ||
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- | ===people=== | ||
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- | (with Nik Gaffney behind the camera) | ||