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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/ | ||
| + | * 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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| + | === reading, seeing, experiencing === | ||
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| * Q Is for Quicken - Sha Xin Wei | * Q Is for Quicken - Sha Xin Wei | ||
| - | ====stray photons==== | + | {{ : |
| + | A few more resonances... | ||
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| + | ===stray photons=== | ||
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| - | ====people==== | + | ===people=== |
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| + | (with Nik Gaffney behind the camera) | ||
| - | ====resonances==== | ||
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