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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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| === 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 === | === Saguaro Times === | ||
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| - | ==== Saguaro Times ==== | ||
| (headlines) | (headlines) | ||
| - | === Commons news === | + | == Commons news == |
| * Government is (still) the medium | * Government is (still) the medium | ||
| * New century calendar updates approved | * New century calendar updates approved | ||
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| - | === Daily attunement | + | == Daily attunement == |
| * Heat attunement classes by Cowboy Missionaries at the Desert Monastery | * Heat attunement classes by Cowboy Missionaries at the Desert Monastery | ||
| * Saguaro monks lead attunement festival preparation | * Saguaro monks lead attunement festival preparation | ||
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| - | === Our living environment | + | == Our living environment == |
| * New season shadow patterns emerge | * New season shadow patterns emerge | ||
| * Sounds of meteors this spring | * Sounds of meteors this spring | ||
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| * Drought cycles lengthening | * Drought cycles lengthening | ||
| - | === Time Out in Phoenix | + | == Time Out in Phoenix == |
| * Where to see, what to do during this summer migration (with cooking tips) | * Where to see, what to do during this summer migration (with cooking tips) | ||
| * Festival of Shades at the Occult Shade monastery featuring Ethereal Dead | * Festival of Shades at the Occult Shade monastery featuring Ethereal Dead | ||
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| - | === Tech Review | + | == Tech Review == |
| * Tech boom or antenna bubble? | * Tech boom or antenna bubble? | ||
| * Antennae repairs not included in dust tax rewrite | * Antennae repairs not included in dust tax rewrite | ||
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| * Seasonal drift stresses old infrastructure | * Seasonal drift stresses old infrastructure | ||
| - | === True Crime === | + | == True Crime == |
| * Tree-cycle clocks vandalised by property fundamentalists | * Tree-cycle clocks vandalised by property fundamentalists | ||
| * Gun-range courtyard dispute ongoing | * Gun-range courtyard dispute ongoing | ||
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| - | === Saguaro humor === | + | == Saguaro humor == |
| * In shade we trust! | * In shade we trust! | ||
| * I throw up my arms in despair | * I throw up my arms in despair | ||
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