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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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* 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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+ | === AltPhoenix news === | ||
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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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==== Propositions ==== | ==== Propositions ==== | ||
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=== Thalient Lab === | === Thalient Lab === | ||
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+ | A field experiment aiming to find answers the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" | ||
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=== Attunement Walk === | === Attunement Walk === | ||
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+ | Dust & Shadow (audio)walk celebrating the arrival of desert spring. | ||
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+ | 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\\ | ||
+ | Time: 6: | ||
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+ | Location: Moeur Park \\ | ||
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+ | 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 === | === 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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=== Book === | === Book === |