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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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+ | Further notes on: [[futuring]] | [[propositions]] | [[resonances]] | ||
Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | ||
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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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- | === 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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- | ==== Propositions ==== | ||
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- | === Thalient Lab === | ||
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- | === Attunement Walk === | ||
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- | === Seasonal feast === | ||
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- | === Saguaro Times === | ||
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- | ==== Saguaro Times ==== | ||
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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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- | ==== 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 | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
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- | * Anthropology in the time of the Anthropocene - Bruno Latour | ||
- | * [[https:// | ||
- | * 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 | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
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- | * [[https:// | ||
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- | * Crystal Radio | ||
- | * 100 year roulette | ||
- | * C14 Clocks | ||
- | * [[https:// | ||
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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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===stray photons=== | ===stray photons=== |