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…)
  • The American Wilderness Act of 1964 / Carta Foresta (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.

• ASU clearance (forms?) & printing?