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====Dust & Shadow - Reader vol.1====

notes for the first volume of the [[:dust and shadow]] reader[s]


contents/extracts/fragments
  * FieldNotes #1: https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-1-48e94d02540b
  * material from https://d-u-s-t-and-shadow.tumblr.com/
  * excerpts from...
    * Stengers - animism
    * Tsing - mushroom at the end of the world
    * in the dust of this planet (?) (see: [[/the mushroom at the end of the world]] as counterpoint to [[/in the dust of this planet]])
    * (something on [[/thalience]] (?))
    * Morton - Humankind
    * (romantic machines, panpsychism, animism, etc, vegetal mind, human scale systems, non-human technologies...)
    * [[http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/legisAct#2|The American Wilderness Act of 1964]] / Carta Foresta ([[http://info.sjc.ox.ac.uk/forests/Carta.htm|Charter of the Forest]]) of 1217

misc...

“Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time.” --J.G. Ballard. The Atrocity Exhibition.


“Spectrality, the way a thing keeps exceeding itself, or is displaced from itself, or is ecstatically outside itself (ekstasis, “ex-sistence”), doesn’t just belong to human being […] Humankind is flickering, displaced from itself, ecstatic, rippling and dappled with shadows. Shadows made not only by some other entity interacting with it, like the sun through the trees, but shadows that are an intrinsic part of the thing.” --Timothy Morton. Humankind.

“brushing against, licking or irradiating are also access modes as valid (or as invalid) as thinking.” --Timothy Morton, Humankind.

“nobody has ever been animist because one is never animist “in general,” always in the terms of an assemblage that produces or enhances metamorphic (magic) transformation in our capacity to affect and be affected – that is also to feel, think, and imagine. Animism may, however, be a name for reclaiming these assemblages because it lures us into feeling that their efficacy is not ours to claim. Against the insistent poisoned passion of dismembering and demystifying, it affirms what it is they all require in order not to devour us – that we are not alone in the world.” --Isabelle Stengers. Reclaiming Animism.

“Dust is everywhere because its source is everything. Its most remote origins in time and space are the Big Bang, collapsing stars, and the dark line across the center of the Milky Way, which, according to astronomer Donald Brownlee, “is a line of dirt perhaps 65,200 light years across, and 3.832 X 1017 miles long.” Here on earth, dust comes from everything under the sun: minerals, seeds, pollen, insects, molds, lichens, and even bacteria. Its sources also include bone, hair, hide, feather, skin, blood, and excrement. And things of human fabrication, too numerous to mention, also cover the earth and all the atmosphere with dust.” --Joseph A. Amato. Dust. 

====other====
  * ASU clearance (forms?) & printing?