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 This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary modes of exploring the field were structured and unstructured conversations, [[:futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|Causal Layered Analysis]] and an experimental open space workshop. Occasionally we would venture beyond campus, guided by our very own 'artists' sherpa'. We explored the the Paradise Hills, the Superstitions and the Shadow Mountain; Papago and Moeur Parks; the Museum of the lost Dutchman and the Pueblo Grande ruins. We experienced a silent Full Moon walk with the Museum of Walking and found a site for [[https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow-walk/|FoAM's audio-walk]]. Attuning to the academic environment inevitably involved paperwork, meetings with students and faculty. We gave a lecture and treated the visitors to a clandestine FoAM Apero. Amidst the various activities on campus, we were temporarily adopted into our collaborators' family life, which allowed us to experience (among many other things) our first Thanksgiving feast with the Moran-Nocek clans. This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary modes of exploring the field were structured and unstructured conversations, [[:futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|Causal Layered Analysis]] and an experimental open space workshop. Occasionally we would venture beyond campus, guided by our very own 'artists' sherpa'. We explored the the Paradise Hills, the Superstitions and the Shadow Mountain; Papago and Moeur Parks; the Museum of the lost Dutchman and the Pueblo Grande ruins. We experienced a silent Full Moon walk with the Museum of Walking and found a site for [[https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow-walk/|FoAM's audio-walk]]. Attuning to the academic environment inevitably involved paperwork, meetings with students and faculty. We gave a lecture and treated the visitors to a clandestine FoAM Apero. Amidst the various activities on campus, we were temporarily adopted into our collaborators' family life, which allowed us to experience (among many other things) our first Thanksgiving feast with the Moran-Nocek clans.
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 +Further notes on: [[futuring]] | [[propositions]] | [[resonances]]
  
 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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-=== guiding themes ===+=== D&S themes ===
  
 __**Desertification**__ __**Desertification**__
  
-  * Everything shrivels up and erodes into dust: desertification related to ecology and culture (intergenerational memory)+  * Everything shrivels up and erodes into dust; desertification related to ecology and culture (intergenerational memory)
   * Humans come and go   * Humans come and go
   * (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations   * (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations
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 === core questions === === core questions ===
  
-  * 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?+  * **What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the region?**  
 +    * What/how to extrapolate local conditions to other deserts and environments on their way to become deserts?
  
-  * What does a thalient laboratory in the desert look like?+  * **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 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?     * How to (re)animate pre-modern sensibilities without dualisms of light/dark, good/evil, love/power?
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     * How do we speak of relations as well as things?     * How do we speak of relations as well as things?
  
-  * Why attempt to build cities in the desert?+  * How to turn zombie/vampiric utopias into regenerative ('log') utopias? 
     * 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 'log' utopias, that can feed new life as a dead log would?+    * Why attempt to build cities in the desert? 
 +    * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like? 
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 === hypotheses === === hypotheses ===
  
-  * We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) is with a change of mindset/worldview and the underlying myths and archetypes. +  * We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) with a change of mindset/worldview and the underlying myths and archetypes. 
     * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change.     * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change.
     * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc.       * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc.  
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     * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries through our work     * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries through our work
  
- * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, yet the desert is also unforgiving+  * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, yet the desert is also unforgiving
     * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty     * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty
     * Objectives obscure progress     * Objectives obscure progress
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     * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias      * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias 
     * Neo-reaction and new age are each other's flip-sides, collapsing complexity of uncertainty into platitudes     * Neo-reaction and new age are each other's flip-sides, collapsing complexity of uncertainty into platitudes
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   * fieldwork   * fieldwork
   * inquiry (critical, embodied...)   * 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+  * experiential futures and speculative design 
   * action research   * action research
   * contemporary rituals and peak experiences   * contemporary rituals and peak experiences
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   * writing   * writing
  
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-=== reading, seeing, experiencing === +
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-  * Mythologies - Roland Barthes +
-  * [[:six_memos_for_the_next_millennium|Six Memos]] - Italo Calvino +
-  * Book of Sand - Italo Calvino +
-  * Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson +
-  * The Enchantment of Modern Life - Jane Bennett +
-  * [[:the_timeless_way_of_building|The Timeless Way of Building]] - Christopher Alexander +
-  * Dust studies - Jay Owens +
-  * Minutes to Midnight - Trent Parke +
-  * [[http://dark-mountain.net/|The Dark Mountain Project]] +
-  * [[http://wwwedu.artcenter.edu/mertzel/spatial_scenography_1/Class%20Files/resources/In%20Praise%20of%20Shadows.pdf|In Praise of Shadows]] - Tanizaki +
-  * Anthropology in the time of the Anthropocene - Bruno Latour +
-  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ54DdUSwRk|The Last Angel of History]] +
-  * City and the City - China Mieville +
-  * Perdido Street Station - China Mieville +
-  * [[:humankind_notes|Humankind]] - Tim Morton +
-  * [[:the_mushroom_at_the_end_of_the_world|The Mushroom at the End of the World]] - Anna Tsing +
-  * Customs in common - EP Thompson +
-  * [[:design_principles_for_common_pool_resources|Governing the commons]] - Elinor Ostrom +
-  * Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands - The good-natured feminist: eco-feminism and the quest for democracy +
-  * Trinh Minh-Ha: Writing post-colonialism and feminism +
-  * [[:staying_with_the_trouble|Staying with the trouble]] - Donna Haraway +
-  * Xenogenesis - Octavia Butler +
-  * [[:hope_in_the_dark|Hope in the dark]] - Rebecca Solnit +
-  * [[http://www.freehouse.nl|Freehouse Rotterdam]] +
-  * Too like the lightning - Ada Palmer +
-  * The Laundry series - Charles Stross +
-  * [[:2312_by_kim_stanley_robinson|2312]] - Kim Stanley Robinson +
-  * [[:anathem_notes|Anathem]] - Neal Stephenson +
-  * The word for world is forest - Ursula Leguin +
-  * How forests think - Eduardo Kohn +
-  * [[:thalience|Thalience]] - Karl Schroeder +
-  * Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson +
-  * [[http://www.architectural-body.com/?lang=en|Gins and Arakawa]] (architectural body) +
-  * [[http://kkaa.co.jp/|Kengo Kuma]] +
-  * [[http://www.olafureliasson.net/|Olafur Eliasson]] +
-  * [[http://www.ateliervanlieshout.com/works/|AVL]] +
-  * [[https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit/walter-de-maria-the-lightning-field|The Lightning field]] +
-  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsound|Microsound]] +
-  * Crystal Radio +
-  * 100 year roulette +
-  * C14 Clocks +
-  * [[https://vimeo.com/126311389|Organic abstraction]] +
-  * [[:romantic_machine_notes|Romantic Machine]] - John Tresch +
-  * Geology of media - Jussi Parikka +
-  * Finite media - Sean Cubitt +
-  * Panpsychism (& Noumenautics - [[http://www.philosopher.eu/|Peter Sjöstedt-H]]) +
-  * [[http://www.e-flux.com/journal/36/61245/reclaiming-animism/|Reclaiming Animism]] - Isabelle Stengers +
-  * [[:codex_seraphinianus|Codex Seraphinianus]] +
-  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)|Arrival]] +
-  * Desert Solitaire - Edward Abby +
-  * [[https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2016/05/27/what-is-solarpunk/|Solarpunk]] +
-  * [[https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacirema.pdf|Body rituals among the Nacerima]] - Horace Miner +
-  * [[http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/legisact|The Wilderness Act]] +
-  * The Imperative - Alphonso Lingis +
-  * [[http://topologicalmedialab.net/xinwei/classes/readings/Stengers/EcologyOfPractices.pdf|Ecology of Practices]] - Isabelle Stengers +
-  * 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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-(with Nik Gaffney behind the camera) 
  
  
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