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dust_and_shadow:fieldtrip_2 [2018-01-24 07:02] majadust_and_shadow:fieldtrip_2 [2018-01-24 09:46] maja
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 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 'log' utopias, that can feed new life as a dead log would?     * How to turn zombie utopias into 'log' utopias, that can feed new life as a dead log would?
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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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   * writing   * writing
  
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-=== reading, seeing, experiencing ===+=== futuring === 
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 +|              ^ Current              ^ Alt                ^ 
 +^ 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); Noble Savage | Desert Attunement; American Gods; Evolutionary architecture; Long temporality of nothingness followed by abrupt change, return to nothingness | 
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 +|              ^ Current              ^ Alt                ^ 
 +^ Litany | Distribution, pricing and quality of water | Governance and sharing of a variable water supply as a commons | 
 +^ Causes | Weak public infrastructure and political inaction; growing population; economic valuation; water rights and food sovereignty |Variable abundance & commons management (stewarding, minding); Feasts & festivals (train social commitment) | 
 +^ Worldviews | Individual self-reliance and DIY; libertarian ethos, free market | Sociality of a coven/dionisian feast; Social responsibility, commitment and obligation; A spirit/transformational field| 
 +^ 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              ^ Alt                ^ 
 +^ 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; "Innovation Valley of the Sun" | Collective incentives; Government supports trans-species chanelling, Tech-supported complementary currencies; ecological resource management; Non-representational media and occult/alchemical technologies| 
 +^ 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); Attunement to differentials| 
 +^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, John Ford films, Pioneers, Atomism of the isolated subject; Idleness is the devil's playground; Existential quests and transcendence in the desert | City & the city, The Laundry Files, The New Renaissance, dissolving, trance, enthusiasm|  
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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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 +==== Saguaro Times ==== 
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 +(headlines) 
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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 "Covered protection everywhere you want to be" 
 +  * Polls suggest that engineering majors at all time low, while ficto-criticism, coven studies and environmental theory at all time high 
 +  * 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 
 + 
 +=== 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; Open your courtyards at siesta time) 
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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're right on time!) 
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 +=== Book === 
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 +==== reading, seeing, experiencing ====
  
  
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