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dust_and_shadow:fieldtrip_2 [2018-01-25 00:40] majadust_and_shadow:fieldtrip_2 [2018-01-25 02:10] maja
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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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-=== D&S themes ===+==== D&S themes ====
  
-__**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)
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-__**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 utopias**__+**Zombie utopias**
  
   * Shadows   * Shadows
   * Ghost towns   * Ghost towns
-  * Haunted utopias+  * Haunted utopias, vampiric utopias, parasitic utopias
   * 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) critical uncertainties in the region?**  +**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/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 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? +  * How to (re)animate pre-modern sensibilities without dualisms of light/dark, good/evil, love/power? 
-    * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the 'sentience spectrum' and emphasize experience and interaction with diverse beings? +  * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the 'sentience spectrum' and emphasize experience and interaction with diverse beings? 
-    * 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/vampiric utopias into regenerative ('log') utopias?    * How to turn zombie/vampiric utopias into regenerative ('log') utopias? 
-    * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? +  * 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? 
-    * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like?+  * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like?
  
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-=== hypotheses ===+==== Hypotheses ====
  
-  * We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) with a change of mindset/worldview and the underlying myths and archetypes.  +**We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) by changing mindset/worldview and their underlying myths.**  
-    * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. +  * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. 
-    * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc.   +  * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc.   
-    * 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 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+
  
-  * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, yet the desert is also unforgiving + 
-    * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty +**The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, yet the desert is also unforgiving** 
-    * 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's flip-sides, collapsing complexity of uncertainty into platitudes+  * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias  
 +  * Neo-reaction and new age are each other's flip-sides, collapsing complexity of uncertainty into platitudes
  
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-=== methods ===+==== Methods ====
  
-... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, commonplaces and fieldguides by:+... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, commonplaces and fieldguidesby:
   * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating)   * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating)
   * walking   * walking
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