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 ==== Dark arts, grey areas and other contingencies ==== ==== Dark arts, grey areas and other contingencies ====
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 (variously; [[https://fo.am/publications/dark-arts-grey-areas-and-other-contingencies/|RADMIN]] and  (variously; [[https://fo.am/publications/dark-arts-grey-areas-and-other-contingencies/|RADMIN]] and 
 [[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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 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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