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| === D&S themes === | === D&S themes === | ||
| - | __**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) | ||
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| - | __**Probabilistic Future Preparedness**__ | + | **Probabilistic Future Preparedness** |
| * Phoenix holding onto permanence | * Phoenix holding onto permanence | ||
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| - | __**Attunement**__ | + | **Attunement** |
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| * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | ||
| - | __**Vampiric and zombie | + | **Zombie |
| * Shadows | * Shadows | ||
| * Ghost towns | * Ghost towns | ||
| - | * Haunted utopias | + | * Haunted |
| * Troubled past | * Troubled past | ||
| * Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | * Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | ||
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| === core questions === | === core questions === | ||
| - | * **What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the region?** | + | **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/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 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/ | + | * How to (re)animate pre-modern sensibilities without dualisms of light/dark, good/evil, love/ |
| - | * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the ' | + | * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the ' |
| - | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? | + | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? |
| - | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? | + | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? |
| - | * **What might urban futures in the American South West look like?** | + | **What might urban futures in the American South West look like?** |
| - | * How to turn zombie/ | + | * How to turn zombie/ |
| - | * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? | + | * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? |
| - | * Why attempt to build cities in the desert? | + | * Why attempt to build cities in the desert? |
| - | * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like? | + | * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like? |
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| === hypotheses === | === hypotheses === | ||
| - | | + | **We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) |
| - | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. | + | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. |
| - | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, | + | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, |
| - | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) | + | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) |
| - | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers | + | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers |
| - | * We need a new form of geomancy | + | * We need a new form of geomancy |
| + | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries | ||
| - | | + | **We can become human receptors and listening devices** |
| - | * We practice the craft of silence and heterogeneous hearing to help us attune to our surroundings. | + | * We practice the craft of silence and heterogeneous hearing to help us attune to our surroundings. |
| - | * At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. | + | * At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. |
| - | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. We witness and weave threads of connection with other people and places (FoAM) | + | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. We witness and weave threads of connection with other people and places (FoAM) |
| - | * Our language can liquefy | + | * Our language can liquefy |
| - | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | + | * We communicate to connect, not dissect |
| - | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries through our work | + | |
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| - | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | + | **The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, |
| - | * Objectives obscure progress | + | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty |
| - | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts | + | * Objectives obscure progress |
| - | * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias | + | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts |
| - | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | + | * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias |
| + | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | ||
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| === methods === | === methods === | ||
| - | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, | + | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, |
| * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | ||
| * walking | * walking | ||
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