This page is a growing collection of resonant texts, people and works which we make up an eco-system of inspirations and influences for Dust and Shadow.

• Mythologies - Roland Barthes
• Six Memos - Italo Calvino
• Book of Sand - Italo Calvino
• Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
• The Enchantment of Modern Life - Jane Bennett
• The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
• Disturbances (Dust studies) - Jay Owens
• Minutes to Midnight - Trent Parke
• The Dark Mountain Project
• In Praise of Shadows - Tanizaki
• Anthropology in the time of the Anthropocene - Bruno Latour
• The Last Angel of History
• City and the City - China Mieville
• Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
• Humankind - Tim Morton
• The Mushroom at the End of the World - Anna Tsing
• Customs in common - EP Thompson
• Governing the commons - Elinor Ostrom
• Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands - The good-natured feminist: eco-feminism and the quest for democracy
• Trinh Minh-Ha: Writing post-colonialism and feminism
• Staying with the trouble - Donna Haraway
• Xenogenesis - Octavia Butler
• Hope in the dark - Rebecca Solnit
• Freehouse Rotterdam
• Too like the lightning - Ada Palmer
• The Laundry series - Charles Stross
• 2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Anathem - Neal Stephenson
• The word for world is forest - Ursula Leguin
• How forests think - Eduardo Kohn
• Thalience - Karl Schroeder
• Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson
• Gins and Arakawa (architectural body)
• Kengo Kuma
• Olafur Eliasson
• AVL
• The Lightning field
• Microsound
• Crystal Radio
• 100 year roulette
• C14 Clocks
• Organic abstraction
• Romantic Machine - John Tresch
• Geology of media - Jussi Parikka
• Finite media - Sean Cubitt
• Panpsychism (& Noumenautics - Peter Sjöstedt-H)
• Reclaiming Animism - Isabelle Stengers
• Codex Seraphinianus
• Arrival
• Desert Solitaire - Edward Abby
• Solarpunk
• Body rituals among the Nacerima - Horace Miner
• The Wilderness Act
• The Imperative - Alphonso Lingis
• Ecology of Practices - Isabelle Stengers
• 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

(see also bibliography)

• https://www.zotero.org/groups/dust_and_shadow/items
• dark ecology
• http://tinyletter.com/hautepop/letters/disturbances-12-anti-modern
• panpsychism, animism, etc, vegetal mind, human scale systems, non-human technologies
• in the dust of this planet
• Spiritualise, Revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges (RSA report)
• A counsel of resistance and delight
• Why spirituality is key to more visionary politics
• You want it darker
• Sensing nature
• The TAZ
• art and witchcraft (and Adam Nocek's Reclaiming Witchcraft)
• radical ecologies
• The American Wilderness Act of 1964
• etc.
• https://sandsystems.org/
• http://dark-mountain.net/blog/the-devils-door-a-call-for-contributions-to-issue-12/
• http://dark-mountain.net/blog/in-other-tongues-ecologies-of-meaning-and-loss/
• The Spell of the Sensuos
• http://www.decolonize.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/postcolonial-studies-reader.pdf
• http://www.maitres-fous.net/Ungar.html
• http://www.biosferanoosfera.it/scritti/Why%20I%20became%20a%20Panexperientialist.pdf
• http://art.scottpolach.com/Applause-Encouraged
• https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/james-turrell-earthworks-and-monuments-of-deep-time-3a6d95d0ae6f
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/arts/music/john-luther-adams-become-desert-seattle-symphony.html
• https://transitionjoshuatree.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/5-local-mesquite-guild.jpg
• https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2019/07/killer-heat-analysis-full-report.pdf