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- | ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | + | ===== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ===== |
... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 by FoAM.Earth | ... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 by FoAM.Earth | ||
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This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary modes of exploring the field were structured and unstructured conversations, | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary modes of exploring the field were structured and unstructured conversations, | ||
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+ | Further notes on: [[futuring]] | [[propositions]] | [[resonances]] | ||
Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | ||
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- | === guiding | + | ==== D& |
- | __**Desertification**__ | + | **Desertification** |
- | * Everything shrivels up and erodes into dust: desertification related to ecology and culture (intergenerational memory) | + | * Everything shrivels up and erodes into dust; desertification related to ecology and culture (intergenerational memory) |
* 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 | + | ==== Hypotheses ==== |
- | | + | **We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) |
- | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. | + | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. |
- | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, | + | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, |
- | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) | + | * 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 | + | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers |
- | * We need a new form of geomancy | + | * 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. | + | * 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. | + | * 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) | + | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. We witness and weave threads of connection with other people and places (FoAM) |
- | * Our language can liquefy | + | * Our language can liquefy |
- | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | + | * We communicate to connect, not dissect |
- | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries through our work | + | |
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- | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | + | **The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, |
- | * Objectives obscure progress | + | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty |
- | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts | + | * Objectives obscure progress |
- | * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias | + | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts |
- | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | + | * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias |
+ | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | ||
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- | === methods | + | ==== Methods ==== |
- | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, | + | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, |
* seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | ||
* walking | * walking | ||
* fieldwork | * fieldwork | ||
* inquiry (critical, embodied...) | * inquiry (critical, embodied...) | ||
- | * experiential futures and speculative design | + | * experiential futures and speculative design |
* action research | * action research | ||
* contemporary rituals and peak experiences | * contemporary rituals and peak experiences | ||
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- | === futuring === | + | |
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- | | ^ Current | + | |
- | ^ Litany | Impact, duration & intensity of heat-waves | Seeking shade & shadows; Daily & yearly rhythms attuned to desert cycles (Saguaro time) | | + | |
- | ^ Causes | Climate change; Lifestyle & cities not adapted to desert conditions | Shade-based architecture and transport; Situated learning; Government is the medium; Monastic entities for rethinking time | | + | |
- | ^ Worldviews | Man has dominion over Earth; Right to property and prosperity | Long, durational desert abiding (qualitative time); Redesign of the body attuned to the event (alignment, emergence) | | + | |
- | ^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); | + | |
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- | | ^ Current | + | |
- | ^ Litany | Distribution, | + | |
- | ^ Causes | Weak public infrastructure and political inaction; growing population; economic valuation; water rights and food sovereignty |Variable abundance & commons management (stewarding, | + | |
- | ^ Worldviews | Individual self-reliance and DIY; libertarian ethos, free market | Sociality of a coven/ | + | |
- | ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Guns & God; sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world (time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy| | + | |
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- | | ^ Current | + | |
- | ^ Litany | Impact of the tech industry | Impact of Antennae-centric tech industry; Smart-grid & solar; Ambient & responsive; Rise of new attunement instruments | | + | |
- | ^ Causes | Economic incentives; Risk tolerance; Job creation; " | + | |
- | ^ Worldviews | Faith in technological progress; American pragmatism; Distrust of educated elites; Protestant work ethic; Importance of tangible, visible and measurable contribution to society; Immortality |Serial monotasking (commitment to the act); Bringing together heterogeneous systems where medium is the catalyst (biomimicry); | + | |
- | ^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, | + | |
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- | ==== Propositions ==== | + | |
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- | === Thalient Lab === | + | |
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- | === Attunement Walk === | + | |
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- | === Seasonal feast === | + | |
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- | === Saguaro Times === | + | |
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- | ==== Saguaro Times ==== | + | |
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- | === Commons news === | + | |
- | * Government is (still) the medium | + | |
- | * New century calendar updates approved | + | |
- | * Water tokens fluctuating | + | |
- | * Wiccan Goddess elected to government in a landslide victory | + | |
- | * The governor reveals the new monument "to honor our heroes, the brave homeless" | + | |
- | * Salt River Shade Route: new public transit " | + | |
- | * Polls suggest that engineering majors at all time low, while ficto-criticism, | + | |
- | * Shade traversal association conscripts snowbirds for summer cycles | + | |
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- | === Daily attunement === | + | |
- | * Heat attunement classes by Cowboy Missionaries at the Desert Monastery | + | |
- | * Saguaro monks lead attunement festival preparation | + | |
- | * The water levels have spoken! | + | |
- | * Desert attunement center reopens after possession season | + | |
- | * Death pilgrims return | + | |
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- | === Our living environment === | + | |
- | * New season shadow patterns emerge | + | |
- | * Sounds of meteors this spring | + | |
- | * Architectural structures form ecomimetic shade routes | + | |
- | * Sprouts cracked Phoenix-Tucson highway creating a new venue the Desert Fest | + | |
- | * Landscaping co-ops beautify the buffer zone | + | |
- | * How to feed your bats? | + | |
- | * Seven Arm Jack still standing after floods | + | |
- | * Drought cycles lengthening | + | |
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- | === Time Out in Phoenix === | + | |
- | * Where to see, what to do during this summer migration (with cooking tips) | + | |
- | * Festival of Shades at the Occult Shade monastery featuring Ethereal Dead | + | |
- | * Pokemon Go - Capture that Heat! | + | |
- | * The sweet smell of success: Mesquite | + | |
- | * Maple syrup - lemon preserve exchange ~ Again! | + | |
- | * 3rd International Conference on Shade Studies to be held in Phoenix | + | |
- | * Local native community hosts 12th Annual low-tech cooling festival | + | |
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- | === Tech Review === | + | |
- | * Tech boom or antenna bubble? | + | |
- | * Antennae repairs not included in dust tax rewrite | + | |
- | * Nomad tech on smart grids | + | |
- | * Seasonal drift stresses old infrastructure | + | |
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- | === True Crime === | + | |
- | * Tree-cycle clocks vandalised by property fundamentalists | + | |
- | * Gun-range courtyard dispute ongoing | + | |
- | * Power execs sentenced to 10 years shade growth | + | |
- | * Shadow-world expedition washed away by flash-floods (Expect hermeneuts and invite time intensification; | + | |
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- | === Saguaro humor === | + | |
- | * In shade we trust! | + | |
- | * I throw up my arms in despair | + | |
- | * These arms are (not) made for hugging | + | |
- | * IRS = Internal Review of Shades | + | |
- | * Shade grown coffee (and children) are rich, full and robust | + | |
- | * Calling all late bloomers (you' | + | |
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- | === Book === | + | |
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- | ==== reading, seeing, experiencing ==== | + | |
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- | * Mythologies - Roland Barthes | + | |
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- | * Book of Sand - Italo Calvino | + | |
- | * Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson | + | |
- | * The Enchantment of Modern Life - Jane Bennett | + | |
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- | * Dust studies - Jay Owens | + | |
- | * Minutes to Midnight - Trent Parke | + | |
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- | * Anthropology in the time of the Anthropocene - Bruno Latour | + | |
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- | * City and the City - China Mieville | + | |
- | * Perdido Street Station - China Mieville | + | |
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- | * Customs in common - EP Thompson | + | |
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- | * Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands - The good-natured feminist: eco-feminism and the quest for democracy | + | |
- | * Trinh Minh-Ha: Writing post-colonialism and feminism | + | |
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- | * Xenogenesis - Octavia Butler | + | |
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- | * Too like the lightning - Ada Palmer | + | |
- | * The Laundry series - Charles Stross | + | |
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- | * The word for world is forest - Ursula Leguin | + | |
- | * How forests think - Eduardo Kohn | + | |
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- | * Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson | + | |
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- | * Crystal Radio | + | |
- | * 100 year roulette | + | |
- | * C14 Clocks | + | |
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- | * Geology of media - Jussi Parikka | + | |
- | * Finite media - Sean Cubitt | + | |
- | * Panpsychism (& Noumenautics - [[http:// | + | |
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- | * Desert Solitaire - Edward Abby | + | |
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- | * The Imperative - Alphonso Lingis | + | |
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- | * 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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