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| //Transcript of the talk by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney at [[http://www.designmarch.is/designtalks/|DesignTalks]], part of the [[http://www.designmarch.is/|Design March]] Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, on the 14th of March 2013.// | //Transcript of the talk by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney at [[http://www.designmarch.is/designtalks/|DesignTalks]], part of the [[http://www.designmarch.is/|Design March]] Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, on the 14th of March 2013.// |
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| Before we begin we'd like to note that every word in our title is “beyond speech or thought or silence”. Therefore, we invite you to listen in between, behind and underneath everything we say. | |
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| I'm sure you know that any form of magick - like the future - is ultimately unknowable. We can try to explain, analyse and justify how magic works, but it will never be the same as experiencing its effects directly on your own skin. In today's materialist culture direct experiences tend to raise sceptical eyebrows, or be dismissed as archaic and all together irrelevant. However, such experience is able to take us outside of structured time and allow us to grasp our intrinsic interconnectedness with other beings and environments. It doesn't matter that we can't put it in words, we just know, that we are just this... | I'm sure you know that any form of magick - like the future - is ultimately unknowable. We can try to explain, analyse and justify how magic works, but it will never be the same as experiencing its effects directly on your own skin. In today's materialist culture direct experiences tend to raise sceptical eyebrows, or be dismissed as archaic and all together irrelevant. However, such experience is able to take us outside of structured time and allow us to grasp our intrinsic interconnectedness with other beings and environments. It doesn't matter that we can't put it in words, we just know, that we are just this... |
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| The environmentalist creed 'think globally act locally' follows a similar process to meditative and magical rituals. These rituals usually start small, making changes in the body. Some, as in the Buddhist tradition, gradually expand to include the person's family and friends, then enemies, people they don't know, other species and their habitats, until the rite may encompass the planet and even the universe. Even though the effect might not be immediately felt, something changes in the person practicing the ritual, which - ideally - effects everything and everyone they're connected to. | The environmentalist creed 'think globally act locally' follows a similar process to meditative and magical rituals. These rituals usually start small, making changes in the body. Some, as in the Buddhist tradition, gradually expand to include the person's family and friends, then enemies, people they don't know, other species and their habitats, until the rite may encompass the planet and even the universe. Even though the effect might not be immediately felt, something changes in the person practicing the ritual, which - ideally - effects everything and everyone they're connected to. |
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