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 [[https://fo.am/events/thorny-question-art-and-economy-conversation-piece/|The Thorny Question of Art and Economy]] ...) [[https://fo.am/events/thorny-question-art-and-economy-conversation-piece/|The Thorny Question of Art and Economy]] ...)
  
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 Let us begin with a disclaimer: This lecture discusses techniques often frowned upon in our techno-materialist society. If some of what I say sounds dubious, please substitute our words with others that you might be more comfortable with. Magic, for example, can otherwise be referred to as “advanced technology”. Those who resonate with ceremony may be comfortable with spirits and spells, while those of you who align yourselves with more pragmatic lineages might prefer calling these things “clear mind” or “prayer” or “contemplation”. And - for the more hardline - rationalists or skeptics, you can consider this as an experiment in meta-belief. Let us begin with a disclaimer: This lecture discusses techniques often frowned upon in our techno-materialist society. If some of what I say sounds dubious, please substitute our words with others that you might be more comfortable with. Magic, for example, can otherwise be referred to as “advanced technology”. Those who resonate with ceremony may be comfortable with spirits and spells, while those of you who align yourselves with more pragmatic lineages might prefer calling these things “clear mind” or “prayer” or “contemplation”. And - for the more hardline - rationalists or skeptics, you can consider this as an experiment in meta-belief.
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 Like ceremonial magic, myths and fairy tales, this lecture relies on ritual repetition. It is made from an amalgamation and rewilding of words, sounds and images from other places and other times.  Story lines tangled together to address some thorny questions of the Here and Now.  Like ceremonial magic, myths and fairy tales, this lecture relies on ritual repetition. It is made from an amalgamation and rewilding of words, sounds and images from other places and other times.  Story lines tangled together to address some thorny questions of the Here and Now. 
  
-During the lecture we will venture near some "avoidance zones", such as "funding" and "labour". We do so with explicit permission of the forces behind this event, and for the purposes of banishment only. We will speak of art and economics, of dark arts and grey areas, of deserts and desertification, of care and ruin, "and many other things which may or may not exist."  In the words of Aleister Crowley __"It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; [You] are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.”__+During the lecture we will venture near some "avoidance zones", such as "funding" and "labour". We do so with explicit permission of the forces behind this event, and for the purposes of banishment only. We will speak of art and economics, of dark arts and grey areas, of deserts and desertification, of care and ruin, "and many other things which may or may not exist."  In the words of Aleister Crowley //"It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; [You] are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.”//
  
 So make yourself comfortable, and let the words, sounds and images absorb you. So make yourself comfortable, and let the words, sounds and images absorb you.
  
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 In a world enthralled by market economics, sooner or later every artist is faced with the existential question—How do I finance my work? Day jobs? Commissions? Subsidies? A gallerist? Applied mathematics? The informal economy of the precariat? None of the above? All of the above?  In a world enthralled by market economics, sooner or later every artist is faced with the existential question—How do I finance my work? Day jobs? Commissions? Subsidies? A gallerist? Applied mathematics? The informal economy of the precariat? None of the above? All of the above? 
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 Until we stop taking ourselves so seriously (or not seriously enough). Until our individual identities are shattered and smeared and re-congealed innumerable times. Until we understand that we exist because of and despite relating to everything else. Until we understand that we are hydrogen ripped from its context, mixed with the dust of dead stars. That we are endlessly recycled water and crystalising cyclones. That we are teeming civilisational hosts. Most importantly, that we are capable of care. To care for humans and to care for the earth. Care as an antidote to nihilism, greed or indifference. Care as the potion we can take to remember that we are inseparable from all animate matter. Until we stop taking ourselves so seriously (or not seriously enough). Until our individual identities are shattered and smeared and re-congealed innumerable times. Until we understand that we exist because of and despite relating to everything else. Until we understand that we are hydrogen ripped from its context, mixed with the dust of dead stars. That we are endlessly recycled water and crystalising cyclones. That we are teeming civilisational hosts. Most importantly, that we are capable of care. To care for humans and to care for the earth. Care as an antidote to nihilism, greed or indifference. Care as the potion we can take to remember that we are inseparable from all animate matter.
  
-Take heed from the Overstory.  “Keep still. Wait. Something in the lone survivor knows that even the ironclad law of Now can be outlasted. There’s work to do. Star-work, but earthbound all the same.”+Take heed from the Overstory.  //"Keep still. Wait. Something in the lone survivor knows that even the ironclad law of Now can be outlasted. There’s work to do. Star-work, but earthbound all the same."//
  
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