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| - | ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | + | ===== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ===== |
| - | ... dust trails | + | Nov/Dec 02017 by FoAM.Earth |
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| - | We spent two weeks at the ASU campus, inquiring about existing and potential relationships between people and the desert. We interrogated existing myths underlying contemporary lifestyles and re-imagined counter-myths that could be more attuned to the desert environment. From these myths we created a series of propositions to prototype as embodied experiences and publications in 2018. | + | |
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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, | + | |
| Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | ||
| Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | ||
| + | Read more about this field trip in [[https:// | ||
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| - | === guiding themes === | ||
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| - | __**Desertification**__ | ||
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| - | * 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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| - | __**Probabilistic Future Preparedness**__ | ||
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| - | * Phoenix holding onto permanence | ||
| - | * Civilisations with expiration dates (one moment or slow subsiding) | ||
| - | * Prehearsals of obsolescence | ||
| - | * Urban desert / urban wilderness | ||
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| - | __**Attunement**__ | ||
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| - | * material wonder & wander | ||
| - | * layered time, massive scale | ||
| - | * beyond human relationships | ||
| - | * solitude and indifference | ||
| - | * (i)nertness | ||
| - | * naming | ||
| - | * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | ||
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| - | __**Vampiric and zombie utopias**__ | ||
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| - | * Shadows | ||
| - | * Ghost towns | ||
| - | * Haunted utopias | ||
| - | * Troubled past | ||
| - | * Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | ||
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| - | === core questions === | ||
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| - | * **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? | ||
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| - | * **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? | ||
| - | * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the ' | ||
| - | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? | ||
| - | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? | ||
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| - | * How to turn zombie/ | ||
| - | * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? | ||
| - | * Why attempt to build cities in the desert? | ||
| - | * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like? | ||
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| - | === hypotheses === | ||
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| - | * We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) with a change of mindset/ | ||
| - | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. | ||
| - | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, | ||
| - | * 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 | ||
| - | * We need a new form of geomancy | ||
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| - | * We can become human receptors and listening devices. | ||
| - | * 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. | ||
| - | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. We witness and weave threads of connection with other people and places (FoAM) | ||
| - | * Our language can liquefy | ||
| - | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | ||
| - | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries through our work | ||
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| - | * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, | ||
| - | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | ||
| - | * Objectives obscure progress | ||
| - | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts | ||
| - | * 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 === | ||
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| - | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, | ||
| - | * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | ||
| - | * walking | ||
| - | * fieldwork | ||
| - | * inquiry (critical, embodied...) | ||
| - | * experiential futures and speculative design | ||
| - | * action research | ||
| - | * contemporary rituals and peak experiences | ||
| - | * contemplative practices and attunement | ||
| - | * writing | ||
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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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| - | === 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 ==== | ||
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| - | === 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 === | ||
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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 === | ||
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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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| - | === Book === | ||
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| - | ==== reading, seeing, experiencing ==== | + | ---- |
| + | We spent two weeks at the ASU campus, inquiring about existing and potential relationships between people and the desert. We interrogated existing myths underlying contemporary lifestyles and re-imagined counter-myths that could be more attuned to the desert environment. From these myths we created a series of propositions to prototype as embodied experiences and publications in 2018. | ||
| - | {{ :dust_and_shadow:resonances.png |}} | + | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix, specifically ASU's [[http:// |
| + | Occasionally we would venture beyond campus, sometimes guided other times not. We wandered in [[https:// | ||
| - | * Mythologies - Roland Barthes | + | Along with the various activities on campus, we were temporarily adopted into our collaborators' |
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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 | + | |
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| - | * Anthropology in the time of the Anthropocene - Bruno Latour | + | |
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| - | * 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 | + | |
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| - | * Crystal Radio | + | |
| - | * 100 year roulette | + | |
| - | * C14 Clocks | + | |
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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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