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| | =====Dust & Shadow - Reader #1===== |
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| | The first volume of the [[:dust and shadow]] reader[s] (a [[publication]]) in the form of a [[:/commonplace book]] (also available in [[https://fo.am/documents/40/dust__shadow_reader_no.1.pdf|pdf]] format). |
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| ====Dust & Shadow - Reader vol.1==== | <blockquote>You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and yet everyone refuses to believe in magic. |
| | <cite>Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland</cite></blockquote> |
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| notes for the first volume of the [[:dust and shadow]] reader[s] | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34886018801/}}\\ |
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| | ==== About ==== |
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| contents/extracts/fragments | <blockquote>**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. |
| * FieldNotes #1: https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-1-48e94d02540b | <cite>Joseph A. Amato, Dust</cite></blockquote> |
| * 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 | |
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| misc... | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/zzkt/35367178905/ ?maxwidth=1000}}\\ |
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| “Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time.” --J.G. Ballard. The Atrocity Exhibition. | <blockquote>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. |
| | <cite>Tim Morton, Humankind</cite></blockquote> |
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| | ==== Contents ==== |
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| “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. | [[fieldnotes 1]]\\ |
| | [[awareness exercise]]\\ |
| | [[ways of listening]]\\ |
| | [[objects and cairns]]\\ |
| | [[designing bridges]]\\ |
| | [[walking exercises]]\\ |
| | [[recipes]]\\ |
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| “brushing against, licking or irradiating are also access modes as valid (or as invalid) as thinking.” --Timothy Morton, Humankind. | ==== Format ==== |
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| “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. | <blockquote>The chapters build an open-ended assemblage, not a logical machine; they gesture to the so-much-more out there. They tangle with and interrupt each other—mimicking the patchiness of the world I am trying to describe. Adding another thread, the photographs tell a story alongside the text but do not illustrate it directly. I use images to present the spirit of my argument rather than the scenes I discuss. |
| | <cite>Anna Tsing, Mushroom at the end of the World</cite></blockquote> |
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| “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. | <blockquote>[L]et us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible hand-writing. Here we have written down the names of great writers in their order of merit; here we have copied out fine passages from the classics; here are lists of books to be read; and here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink. |
| | <cite>Virginia Woolf, Hours in a Library</cite></blockquote> |
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| | ==== Bibliography ==== |
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| | Sources of quotes and citations can be found on the [[bibliography]] page. |
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| | ==== Colophon ==== |
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| | **Dust & Shadow Reader #1** |
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| | CC-BY-SA March 02018\\ |
| | Design and Photography FoAM (Earth) http://fo.am\\ |
| | Authors and editors Maja Kuzmanovic, Nik Gaffney, Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek and Stacey Moran Nocek\\ |
| | Supported by ASU, Global Institute of Sustainability |
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| “How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things. If jaguars also represent us—in ways that can matter vitally to us—then anthropology cannot limit itself just to exploring how people from different societies might happen to represent them as doing so. Such encounters with other kinds of beings force us to recognize the fact that seeing, representing, and perhaps knowing, even thinking, are not exclusively human affairs.” --Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think (2013) | |
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| ====images==== | |
| * https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/35016586125/in/album-72157681429258454/ | |
| * https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34853367232/in/album-72157681429258454/ | |
| * https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34173550774/in/album-72157681429258454/ | |
| * https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/35017499615/in/album-72157681429258454/ | |
| * https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34886025231/in/album-72157681429258454/ | |
| * https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34174155404/in/album-72157681429258454/ | |
| * https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34207083223/in/album-72157681429258454/ | |
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| ====other==== | |
| * ASU clearance (forms?) & printing? | |
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