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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.
+Further notes on: [[futuring]] | [[propositions]] | [[resonances]]
 Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\
 Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\
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-=== guiding themes ===
+=== D&S themes ===
 __**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
   * (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations
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 === 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 (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?
-  * Why attempt to build cities in the desert?
+  * **What might urban futures in the American South West look like?**
+    * How to turn zombie/vampiric utopias into regenerative ('log') utopias?
     * 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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   * fieldwork
   * 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
   * contemporary rituals and peak experiences
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   * writing
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-=== futuring ===
-|              ^ 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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-=== 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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