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| + | We spent two weeks at the ASU campus, inquiring about existing and potential relationships between people and the desert. We interrogated existing myths underlying contemporary lifestyles and re-imagining counter-myths more attuned to the desert environment. From these myths we created a series of propositions to prototype as embodied experiences and publications in 2018. | ||
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| + | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary mode of exploring the field were structured and unstructured conversations, | ||
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| + | Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | ||
| + | Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | ||
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| + | === guiding themes === | ||
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| + | __**Desertification**__ | ||
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| + | * Everything shrivels up and erodes into dust: desertification related to ecology and culture (intergenerational memory) | ||
| + | * Humans come and go | ||
| + | * (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations | ||
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| + | __**Probabilistic Future Preparedness**__ | ||
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| + | * Phoenix holding onto permanence | ||
| + | * Civilisations with expiration dates (one moment or slow subsiding) | ||
| + | * Prehearsals of obsolescence | ||
| + | * Urban desert / urban wilderness | ||
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| + | __**Attunement**__ | ||
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| + | * material wonder & wander | ||
| + | * layered time, massive scale | ||
| + | * beyond human relationships | ||
| + | * solitude and indifference | ||
| + | * (i)nertness | ||
| + | * naming | ||
| + | * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | ||
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| + | __**Vampiric and zombie utopias**__ | ||
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| + | * Shadows | ||
| + | * Ghost towns | ||
| + | * Haunted utopias | ||
| + | * Troubled past | ||
| + | * Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | ||
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| + | === core questions === | ||
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| + | * What are the critical uncertainties in the region? What/how to extrapolate local conditions to other deserts and environments on their way to become deserts? | ||
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| + | * What does a thalient laboratory in the desert look like? | ||
| + | * 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 arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the ' | ||
| + | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? | ||
| + | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? | ||
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| + | * Why attempt to build cities in the desert? | ||
| + | * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? | ||
| + | * How to turn zombie utopias into ' | ||
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| + | === hypotheses === | ||
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| + | * The only way we can adapt or mitigate climate change and other environmental and cultural crises is with a change of mindset/ | ||
| + | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) | ||
| + | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts | ||
| + | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers | ||
| + | * We need a new form of geomancy | ||
| + | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | ||
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| + | * We need (to become) human receptors and listening devices. Practice the craft of silence. Heterogeneous hearing. Tuning to the world. There are others listening too. We can hear each other if we pay attention. | ||
| + | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. Witnessing, weaving threads of connection with other places and other people (FoAM) | ||
| + | * Our language could liquefy | ||
| + | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | ||
| + | * We are uncovering sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries | ||
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| + | * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, | ||
| + | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | ||
| + | * Objectives obscure progress | ||
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| + | ===people=== | ||
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| + | (with Nik Gaffney behind the camera) | ||
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