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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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| __**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/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/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 | + | * How to turn zombie/ |
| * 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 ' | + | * Why attempt |
| + | * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like? | ||
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| === hypotheses === | === hypotheses === | ||
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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, | + | |
| * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | ||
| * Objectives obscure progress | * Objectives obscure progress | ||
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| * 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 === | + | |
| + | === futuring | ||
| | ^ Current | | ^ Current | ||
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| ^ 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) | | ^ 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); | ^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); | ||
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| ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Guns & God; sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world (time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy| | ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Guns & God; sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world (time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy| | ||
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| ^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, | ^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, | ||
| - | === reading, seeing, experiencing === | + | {{> |
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| + | ==== Propositions ==== | ||
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| + | === Thalient Lab === | ||
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| + | === Attunement Walk === | ||
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| + | Dust & Shadow walk to celebrate the arrival of spring. The participants are invited to attune, to experience diverse forms of listening, and to practice a geomancy for the age of climate chaos. Walking in silence through the Sonoran dust in the shadow of civilisation, | ||
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| + | Date: Saturday, March 24, 2018 | ||
| + | Title: Dust & Shadow | ||
| + | Time: 6: | ||
| + | Location: Moeur Park | ||
| + | Meeting locale: [[https:// | ||
| + | Park on E Lake View Drive under the 202 highway overpass. The walk will begin under the overpass. | ||
| + | GPS coordinates 33.435206, | ||
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| + | === Seasonal feast === | ||
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| + | (e.g. a speculative open air museum with stories and artifacts suggesting alternative myths, lifestyles and ecosystems) | ||
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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 " | ||
| + | * 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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