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| === Thalient Lab === | === Thalient Lab === |
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| A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (8-18 March 2018) | A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (March 8-18 2018) |
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| | <blockquote>I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock. -Edward Abbey </blockquote> |
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| Proposition: There are ways and means to communicate with entities we share the planet with. At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. One of the means to establish contact could be through technological mediation | Proposition: There are ways and means to communicate with entities we share the planet with. At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. One of the means to establish contact could be through technological mediation |
| === Attunement Walk === | === Attunement Walk === |
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| Dust & Shadow (audio)walk celebrating the arrival of desert spring in a panpsychic tradition. | Dust & Shadow (audio)walk celebrating the arrival of desert spring in a panpsychic tradition. (March 24 2018) |
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| Question: What arts become possible if we widen the 'sentience spectrum' and emphasize experience and interaction with diverse beings? | Question: What arts become possible if we widen the 'sentience spectrum' and emphasize experience and interaction with diverse beings? |
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| Location: Moeur Park \\ | Location: Moeur Park \\ |
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| Meeting locale: [[https://goo.gl/maps/oA1hYbeNuR92|North Shore Volley Ball courts]], Tempe Town Lake \\ | Meeting locale: [[https://goo.gl/maps/oA1hYbeNuR92|North Shore Volley Ball courts]], Tempe Town Lake \\ |
| Park on E Lake View Drive under the 202 highway overpass. The walk will begin under the overpass. \\ | Park on E Lake View Drive under the 202 highway overpass. The walk will begin under the overpass. \\ |
| === Seasonal feast === | === Seasonal feast === |
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| The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring in a parallel shade world (Shadow Belmont) | The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring in a parallel shade world, Shadow Belmont. (~March 19 2018 & 2019) |
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| Questions: 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/power? What would be celebrated in a regenerative eutopia in the desert? | Questions: 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/power? What would be celebrated in a regenerative eutopia in the desert? |
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| Proposition: It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for regenerative eutopias. We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc. Conviviality and kinship includes beyond human relationships. Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert cultural, geological and architectural markers. | Proposition: It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for regenerative eutopias. Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert cultural, geological and architectural markers. Conviviality and kinship includes diverse entities and different lenses of interrelation. We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc. |
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| Prototype: Equinox 2018 (March 19, sunset) | Prototype: Equinox eve 2018 (March 19, sunset; equinox time: GMT Mar 20, 16:15) |
| Feast: ~Equinox 2019 | Feast: ~Equinox eve 2019 (equinox time GMT: Mar 20, 21:58) |
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| The feast could consist of the following elements: | The feast could consist of the following elements: |
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