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 ==== Propositions ====
+A collection of Dust & Shadow propositions, to be conducted as embodied (public) experiments.
+<blockquote>[T]he importance of propositions is not limited to matters of truth and falsity. Language is used to evoke attention to features of the world that another person may be missing. Perhaps someone wants me to look up at a branch in a nearby tree. She has propositional feelings of a rare bird being there. Her interest may be in my entertaining the same proposition, but the most effective method may be just to point with a certain expression on her face, or to say “look quick” with some excitement. These gestures may lead to the result better than the sober statement that there is a rare bird there. - Giorgias Romero </blockquote>
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 === Seasonal feast ===
-(e.g. a speculative open air museum with stories and artifacts suggesting alternative myths, lifestyles and ecosystems)
+The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring could consist of the following elements:
+Durational attument through a range of embodied practices
+  * Unfolding (meditation on budding, warming, thawing)
+  * Long and slow attunement meditations
+  * "Passover"
+  * from meditative to ecstatic/dionisian attunement (and back again)
+  * trance-inducing music, drums, movement, dance
+  * participation of human and non-human entities
+Atmosphere
+  * new life: leaves, blossoms
+  * green and yellow colour
+  * freshness of spring and bitter energy of new growth
+  * purity of white ('sacrificial virgins')
+  * waves of pleasantness punctuated with being thrown out of the comfort zone
+  * scent: mesquite incense, scents of the desert
+Architectural elements
+  * layering
+  * shade and shadows
+  * desert wabi-sabi
+  * (cotton) banners or other markers of place
+  * scattered long communal tables (with table cloths)
+  * stations for food prep
+Storytelling, guiding
+  * Matriarch (a gentle holding of the space for ceremony)
+  * Reading and stories in different voices
+  * Symbolism of new myths
+  * Attuning harmonics
+  * Maps here/there
+  * 4Cs of Arizona (new fetishes)
+Blessings and offerings
+  * economies of exchange, gifts, offerings
+  * parting tokens
+  * totems
+  * "may you walk in beauty" (navajo)
+Food & Drink
+  * breaking and sharing food together, abundance in collectivity
+  * end of winter foods in the desert (to research foods of the place)
+  * water
+  * fresh, green, bitter
+  * figs, olives, prickly pear, oranges/lemons (? not native but thriving)
+  * preserved, dried, smoked, fermented, dessicated
+  * lamb or cattle (with consent!)
+  * tea from local herbs and medicinal plants
+  * mezcal, pulque, tequila...
+(This proposition could be produced as an actual feast or a speculative open air museum with stories and artifacts suggesting alternative myths, lifestyles and ecosystems)
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 === Book ===
+== Commonplace booklets ==
+Spring 2018 (copy ready beginning of feb, published before March 24)
+  * fieldnotes 1 & 2 (foam)
+  * backstory/stories (foam)
+    * existing examples and their shadows, parallel worlds, hints and rumours (lct)
+  * quotes from D&S [[resonances|ecosystem]] and annotated bibliography (all)
+  * photos and diagrams (foam)
+Summer 2018
+  * fieldnotes 3 - thalient lab, walk (foam)
+  * research on plants, foods, communities, rituals... (all)
+  * lists (ron)
+== Larger publication ==
+Spring 2019
+Experiment/proposition on how to create a new world...
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