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--- dust_and_shadow:fieldtrip_2 [2018-01-24 11:08] – [Propositions] maja
+++ dust_and_shadow:fieldtrip_2 [2018-01-25 00:34] – maja
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 __**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
   * (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations
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 === core questions ===
-  * What are the critical uncertainties in the region? What/how to extrapolate local conditions to other deserts and environments on their way to become deserts?
+  * **What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the region?**
+    * 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?
+  * **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 (re)animate pre-modern sensibilities without dualisms of light/dark, good/evil, love/power?
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     * How do we speak of relations as well as things?
-  * Why attempt to build cities in the desert?
+  * How to turn zombie/vampiric utopias into regenerative ('log') utopias?
     * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like?
-    * How to turn zombie utopias into 'log' utopias, that can feed new life as a dead log would?
+    * Why attempt to build cities in the desert?
+    * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like?
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   * fieldwork
   * inquiry (critical, embodied...)
-  * experiential futures and speculative design (e.g. designing an open air museum with stories and artifacts suggesting alternative myths, lifestyles and ecosystems
+  * experiential futures and speculative design
   * action research
   * contemporary rituals and peak experiences
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-==== Propositions ====
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+=== AltPhoenix news ===
-=== Thalient Lab ===
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-=== Attunement Walk ===
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-=== Seasonal feast ===
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-=== Saguaro Times ===
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+==== Propositions ====
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+=== Thalient Lab ===
+A field experiment aiming to find answers the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?"
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+<blockquote> Thalience is an attempt to give the physical world itself a voice so that rather than us asking what reality is, reality itself can tell us. It is the discipline that chooses among multiple successful scientific models based on which ones best satisfy our human, aesthetic/moral/personal needs. In other words, given two or more equally valid models of the universe, thalience is the art of choosing the one with the most human face. It is the recovery of the natural in our understanding of the Natural. (...) thalience would use objective truth as an artistic medium and merge subjectivity and objectivity in a creative activity whose purpose is the re-sanctification of the natural world. To believe in an uplifting and satisfying vision of your place in the universe, and to know that this vision is true (or as true as anything can be) would be sublime. Thalience would be an activity worthy of post-scientific humanity, or our own biological or post-biological successors. -[[http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/thalience|Karl Schroeder]]</blockquote>
+=== Attunement Walk ===
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+Dust & Shadow (audio)walk celebrating the arrival of desert spring.
+The participants are invited to attune, to experience diverse forms of listening, and to practice a geomancy for the age of climate chaos. Walking in silence through the Sonoran dust in the shadow of civilisation, the participants may begin to hear the murmur of matter, uncover desert refugia amidst urban life, and forge new connections with the unexpected.
+Date: Saturday, March 24, 2018\\
+Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm (golden hour 6:00, sunset 6:40-6:45, blue hour 6:58, dusk 7:08, night 8:06) \\
+Location: Moeur Park \\
+Meeting locale: [[https://goo.gl/maps/oA1hYbeNuR92|North Shore Volley Ball courts]], Tempe Town Lake \\
+Park on E Lake View Drive under the 202 highway overpass. The walk will begin under the overpass. \\
+GPS coordinates 33.435206,-111.941293 \\
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+=== Seasonal feast ===
+(e.g. a speculative open air museum with stories and artifacts suggesting alternative myths, lifestyles and ecosystems)
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