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==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | ||
- | ... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 | + | ... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 by FoAM.Earth |
- | 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 | + | 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-imagined |
- | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary | + | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary |
Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | ||
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- | === Guiding | + | === guiding |
__**Desertification**__ | __**Desertification**__ | ||
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- | ==== reading, seeing, experiencing ==== | + | |
+ | === 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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+ | * We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) with a change of mindset/ | ||
+ | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. | ||
+ | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, | ||
+ | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) | ||
+ | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers | ||
+ | * We need a new form of geomancy | ||
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+ | * We can become human receptors and listening devices. | ||
+ | * We practice the craft of silence and heterogeneous hearing to help us attune to our surroundings. | ||
+ | * At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. | ||
+ | * We tread lightly | ||
+ | * Our language can liquefy | ||
+ | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | ||
+ | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries through our work | ||
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+ | * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, | ||
+ | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | ||
+ | * Objectives obscure progress | ||
+ | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts | ||
+ | * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias | ||
+ | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | ||
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+ | {{> | ||
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+ | === methods === | ||
+ | |||
+ | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, | ||
+ | * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing | ||
+ | * walking | ||
+ | * fieldwork | ||
+ | * inquiry (critical, embodied...) | ||
+ | * experiential futures and speculative design (e.g. designing an open air museum with stories and artifacts suggesting alternative myths, lifestyles and ecosystems | ||
+ | * action research | ||
+ | * contemporary rituals and peak experiences | ||
+ | * contemplative practices and attunement | ||
+ | * writing | ||
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+ | === CLA === | ||
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+ | | ^ Current | ||
+ | ^ Litany | Impact, duration & intensity of heat-waves | Seeking shade & shadows; Daily & yearly rhythms attuned to desert cycles (Saguaro time) | | ||
+ | ^ Causes | Climate change; Lifestyle & cities not adapted to desert conditions | Shade-based architecture and transport; Situated learning; Government is the medium; Monastic entities for rethinking time | | ||
+ | ^ Worldviews | Man has dominion over Earth; Right to property and prosperity | Long, durational desert abiding (qualitative time); Redesign of the body attuned to the event (alignment, emergence) | | ||
+ | ^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); | ||
+ | |||
+ | | ^ Current | ||
+ | ^ Litany | Distribution, | ||
+ | ^ Causes | Weak public infrastructure and political inaction; growing population; economic valuation; water rights and food sovereignty |Variable abundance & commons management (stewarding, | ||
+ | ^ Worldviews | Individual self-reliance and DIY; libertarian ethos, free market | Sociality of a coven/ | ||
+ | ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Guns & God; sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world (time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy| | ||
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+ | | ^ Current | ||
+ | ^ Litany | Impact of the tech industry | Impact of Antennae-centric tech industry; Smart-grid & solar; Ambient & responsive; Rise of new attunement instruments | | ||
+ | ^ Causes | Economic incentives; Risk tolerance; Job creation; " | ||
+ | ^ Worldviews | Faith in technological progress; American pragmatism; Distrust of educated elites; Protestant work ethic; Importance of tangible, visible and measurable contribution to society; Immortality |Serial monotasking (commitment to the act); Bringing together heterogeneous systems where medium is the catalyst (biomimicry); | ||
+ | ^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, | ||
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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 | ||
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+ | (with Nik Gaffney behind the camera) | ||
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