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- | ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | + | ===== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ===== |
- | ... dust trails | + | Nov/Dec 02017 by FoAM.Earth |
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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, | + | |
Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | ||
Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | ||
- | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/39069831191/ | + | Read more about this field trip in [[https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-2-3a4542feeecd|Dust |
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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 | + | |
- | * 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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- | ==== reading, seeing, experiencing ==== | + | |
- | * Mythologies - Roland Barthes | ||
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- | * Book of Sand - Italo Calvino | ||
- | * Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson | ||
- | * The Enchantment of Modern Life - Jane Bennett | ||
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- | * Dust studies - Jay Owens | ||
- | * Minutes to Midnight - Trent Parke | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
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- | * Anthropology in the time of the Anthropocene - Bruno Latour | ||
- | * [[https:// | ||
- | * City and the City - China Mieville | ||
- | * Perdido Street Station - China Mieville | ||
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- | * Customs in common - EP Thompson | ||
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- | * Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands - The good-natured feminist: eco-feminism and the quest for democracy | ||
- | * Trinh Minh-Ha: Writing post-colonialism and feminism | ||
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- | * Xenogenesis - Octavia Butler | ||
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- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * Too like the lightning - Ada Palmer | ||
- | * The Laundry series - Charles Stross | ||
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- | * The word for world is forest - Ursula Leguin | ||
- | * How forests think - Eduardo Kohn | ||
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- | * Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
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- | * Crystal Radio | ||
- | * 100 year roulette | ||
- | * C14 Clocks | ||
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- | * Geology of media - Jussi Parikka | ||
- | * Finite media - Sean Cubitt | ||
- | * Panpsychism (& Noumenautics - [[http:// | ||
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- | * [[https:// | ||
- | * Desert Solitaire - Edward Abby | ||
- | * [[https:// | ||
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- | * The Imperative - Alphonso Lingis | ||
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- | * A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning - Marcus Coates | ||
- | * Point Omega - Don DeLillo | ||
- | * Vilém Flusser - Into the Universe of Technical Images | ||
- | * Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau - Blakey & Ranney | ||
- | * Roadside Geology of Arizona - Halka Chronic | ||
- | * Q Is for Quicken - Sha Xin Wei | ||
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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-imagined counter-myths that could be more attuned to the desert environment. From these myths we created a series of propositions to prototype as embodied experiences and publications |
- | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/25203130778/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ | + | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix, specifically ASU's [[http://www.labforcriticaltechnics.com/|Lab for Critical Technics]] and [[http://synthesis.ame.asu.edu/|Synthesis Center]]. Our primary modes of exploring the field were structured and unstructured conversations and [[futuring]]. We developed [[concepts]], |
- | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/39069871571/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ | + | Occasionally we would venture beyond campus, sometimes guided other times not. We wandered in [[https:// |
- | {{> | + | Along with the various activities on campus, we were temporarily adopted into our collaborators' |
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- | {{>http:// | + | Further notes on: [[concepts]] | [[futuring]] | [[experiments]] | [[publications]] | [[resonances]] |
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