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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)\\ | ||
Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | ||
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* What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? | * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? | ||
* How to turn zombie utopias into ' | * How to turn zombie utopias into ' | ||
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=== hypotheses === | === hypotheses === | ||
- | * The only way we can adapt or mitigate climate | + | * We can adapt or mitigate climate |
+ | * 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) | * 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 | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers | ||
* We need a new form of geomancy | * We need a new form of geomancy | ||
- | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | ||
- | * We need (to become) human receptors and listening devices. | + | * We can become human receptors and listening devices. |
- | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. Witnessing, weaving | + | * We practice |
- | * Our language | + | * At all times there are other beings |
+ | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. We witness and weave threads of connection with other people and places (FoAM) | ||
+ | * Our language | ||
* We communicate to connect, not dissect | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | ||
- | * We are uncovering | + | * With can uncover |
- | * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, | + | |
* It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | ||
* Objectives obscure progress | * 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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- | === reading, seeing, experiencing === | + | |
+ | === methods === | ||
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+ | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, | ||
+ | * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | ||
+ | * 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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+ | === futuring === | ||
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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); | ||
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+ | | ^ 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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+ | ==== Propositions ==== | ||
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+ | === Thalient Lab === | ||
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+ | === Attunement Walk === | ||
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+ | === Seasonal feast === | ||
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+ | === Saguaro Times === | ||
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+ | === Commons news === | ||
+ | * Government is (still) the medium | ||
+ | * New century calendar updates approved | ||
+ | * Water tokens fluctuating | ||
+ | * Wiccan Goddess elected to government in a landslide victory | ||
+ | * The governor reveals the new monument "to honor our heroes, the brave homeless" | ||
+ | * Salt River Shade Route: new public transit " | ||
+ | * Polls suggest that engineering majors at all time low, while ficto-criticism, | ||
+ | * Shade traversal association conscripts snowbirds for summer cycles | ||
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+ | === Daily attunement === | ||
+ | * Heat attunement classes by Cowboy Missionaries at the Desert Monastery | ||
+ | * Saguaro monks lead attunement festival preparation | ||
+ | * The water levels have spoken! | ||
+ | * Desert attunement center reopens after possession season | ||
+ | * Death pilgrims return | ||
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+ | === Our living environment === | ||
+ | * New season shadow patterns emerge | ||
+ | * Sounds of meteors this spring | ||
+ | * Architectural structures form ecomimetic shade routes | ||
+ | * Sprouts cracked Phoenix-Tucson highway creating a new venue the Desert Fest | ||
+ | * Landscaping co-ops beautify the buffer zone | ||
+ | * How to feed your bats? | ||
+ | * Seven Arm Jack still standing after floods | ||
+ | * Drought cycles lengthening | ||
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+ | === Time Out in Phoenix === | ||
+ | * Where to see, what to do during this summer migration (with cooking tips) | ||
+ | * Festival of Shades at the Occult Shade monastery featuring Ethereal Dead | ||
+ | * Pokemon Go - Capture that Heat! | ||
+ | * The sweet smell of success: Mesquite | ||
+ | * Maple syrup - lemon preserve exchange ~ Again! | ||
+ | * 3rd International Conference on Shade Studies to be held in Phoenix | ||
+ | * Local native community hosts 12th Annual low-tech cooling festival | ||
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+ | === Tech Review === | ||
+ | * Tech boom or antenna bubble? | ||
+ | * Antennae repairs not included in dust tax rewrite | ||
+ | * Nomad tech on smart grids | ||
+ | * Seasonal drift stresses old infrastructure | ||
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+ | === True Crime === | ||
+ | * Tree-cycle clocks vandalised by property fundamentalists | ||
+ | * Gun-range courtyard dispute ongoing | ||
+ | * Power execs sentenced to 10 years shade growth | ||
+ | * Shadow-world expedition washed away by flash-floods (Expect hermeneuts and invite time intensification; | ||
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+ | === Saguaro humor === | ||
+ | * In shade we trust! | ||
+ | * I throw up my arms in despair | ||
+ | * These arms are (not) made for hugging | ||
+ | * IRS = Internal Review of Shades | ||
+ | * Shade grown coffee (and children) are rich, full and robust | ||
+ | * Calling all late bloomers (you' | ||
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* Q Is for Quicken - Sha Xin Wei | * Q Is for Quicken - Sha Xin Wei | ||
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