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- | ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | + | ===== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ===== |
... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 by FoAM.Earth | ... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 by FoAM.Earth | ||
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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, | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary modes of exploring the field were structured and unstructured conversations, | ||
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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 === | ||
- | __**Desertification**__ | + | ==== D&S themes ==== |
- | | + | **Desertification** |
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* Humans come and go | * Humans come and go | ||
* (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations | * (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations | ||
- | __**Probabilistic Future Preparedness**__ | + | **Probabilistic Future Preparedness** |
* Phoenix holding onto permanence | * Phoenix holding onto permanence | ||
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- | __**Attunement**__ | + | **Attunement** |
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* conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | ||
- | __**Vampiric and zombie | + | **Zombie |
* Shadows | * Shadows | ||
* Ghost towns | * Ghost towns | ||
- | * Haunted utopias | + | * Haunted |
* Troubled past | * Troubled past | ||
* Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | * Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | ||
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- | === core questions === | + | ==== Core questions |
- | | + | **What are the (environmental) |
+ | * 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?** |
- | * 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/ | + | * 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 ' | + | * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the ' |
- | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? | + | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? |
- | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? | + | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? |
+ | **What might urban futures in the American South West look like?** | ||
+ | * How to turn zombie/ | ||
+ | * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? | ||
* Why attempt to build cities in the desert? | * Why attempt to build cities in the desert? | ||
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- | * How to turn zombie utopias into ' | + | |
- | === hypotheses | + | {{> |
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+ | ==== Hypotheses | ||
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+ | **We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) by changing 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 | ||
+ | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries | ||
- | | + | **We can become human receptors |
- | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. | + | * We practice |
- | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, | + | * At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. |
- | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) | + | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. We witness |
- | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers | + | * Our language |
- | * We need a new form of geomancy | + | * We communicate to connect, not dissect |
- | * 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 seeing with new eyes. We witness and weave threads of connection with other people and places (FoAM) | ||
- | * Our language can liquefy | ||
- | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | ||
- | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries through our work | ||
- | * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, | + | **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 | + | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts |
- | * 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' | + | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' |
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- | === methods | + | ==== Methods ==== |
- | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, | + | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, |
* seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | ||
* walking | * walking | ||
* fieldwork | * fieldwork | ||
* inquiry (critical, embodied...) | * inquiry (critical, embodied...) | ||
- | * experiential futures and speculative design | + | * 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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- | === CLA === | ||
- | | ^ Current | ||
- | ^ Litany | ||
- | ^ Causes | ||
- | ^ Worldviews | ||
- | ^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); | ||
- | === reading, seeing, experiencing === | ||
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- | * 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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- | * 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 | ||
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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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- | * Desert Solitaire - Edward Abby | ||
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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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- | (with Nik Gaffney behind the camera) | ||