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-A futurecrafting experiment conducted in November 2017. We started from the current conditions and environmental challenges in the region. We asked, //"What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the American South-West?"// and used the [[:futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|Causal Layered Analysis]] to probe this question. The result was a backstory of "Shadow Belmont", a speculative urban centre in Arizona in a parallel present or possible future. +A futurecrafting experiment conducted in November 2017. We started from the current conditions and environmental challenges in the region. We asked, //"What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the American Southwest?"// and used the [[:futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|Causal Layered Analysis]] to probe this question. The result was a backstory of "Shadow Belmont", a speculative urban centre in Arizona in a parallel present or possible future.
  
 +<blockquote>Pero a nosotros no nos dan miedo las ruinas, porque llevamos un mundo nuevo en nuestros corazones. Ese mundo está creciendo en este instante.
 +<cite> Buenaventura Durruti </cite></blockquote>
 ==== Layered uncertainties ==== ==== Layered uncertainties ====
  
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 ^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); Noble Savage | Desert Attunement; American Gods; Evolutionary architecture; Long temporality of nothingness followed by abrupt change, return to nothingness | ^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); Noble Savage | Desert Attunement; American Gods; Evolutionary architecture; Long temporality of nothingness followed by abrupt change, return to nothingness |
  
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 === Water === === Water ===
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 ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Godless (Guns & God); sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world, time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy|  ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Godless (Guns & God); sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world, time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy| 
  
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 === Tech industry === === Tech industry ===
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 ^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, John Ford films, Pioneers, Atomism of the isolated subject; Idleness is the devil's playground; Existential quests and transcendence in the desert | City & the city, The Laundry Files, The New Renaissance, dissolving, trance, enthusiasm|  ^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, John Ford films, Pioneers, Atomism of the isolated subject; Idleness is the devil's playground; Existential quests and transcendence in the desert | City & the city, The Laundry Files, The New Renaissance, dissolving, trance, enthusiasm| 
  
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 ==== Shadow Belmont ==== ==== Shadow Belmont ====
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 ... backstory of the shadow belmont world (...) ... backstory of the shadow belmont world (...)
  
-<blockquote> +<blockquote>When we are frightened it can feel like we are trapped under water, under ice. The mythic directive in such a moment is unusual. It says this: go deeper. Attend to the Goddess underneath the unfoldingThere’s no restoration without courtship. Don’t smash your knuckles raw on the icebut dive down further — seemingly the opposite of what everyone on the surface wants you to do. But of course, the diver swims down not just with their terror, but with their stories, their artfulness, their skill. Most importantly, most wonderfully, their love. Ironically, only by diving deeper can the ice melt.  
-We no longer have roots, we have aerialsWe no longer have originswe have terminals–McKenzie Wark +<cite>[[https://medium.com/@schoolofmyth/a-counsel-of-resistance-and-delight-in-the-face-of-fear-91ddb91dc415|Martin Shaw]]</cite></blockquote>
-</blockquote> +
  
 === Saguaro Times === === Saguaro Times ===
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   * Shade grown coffee (and children) are rich, full and robust   * Shade grown coffee (and children) are rich, full and robust
   * Calling all late bloomers (you're right on time!)   * Calling all late bloomers (you're right on time!)
 +  * Sand of the Free, Sprawl of the Brave!
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 +We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals. 
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 +<cite>McKenzie Wark</cite>
 +</blockquote>
  
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