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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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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 | + | === D& |
__**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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* 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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- | === 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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- | === 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 | + | |
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- | * Anthropology in the time of the Anthropocene - Bruno Latour | + | |
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- | * 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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