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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 | + | **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) 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/ | + | * 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?** | + | **What might urban futures in the American South West look like?** |
- | * How to turn zombie/ | + | * How to turn zombie/ |
- | * 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.) |
- | * 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 |