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| ==== Dust and Shadow ==== | ==== Dust and Shadow ==== |
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| //Pulvis et umbra sumus. We are but dust and shadow. –Horace// | <blockquote>Pulvis et umbra sumus. We are but dust and shadow. <cite>Horace</cite></blockquote> |
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| ==== Dust and Shadow ==== | ---- |
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| Dust and shadow is FoAM's contribution to a transdisciplinary research and residency programme at the ASU (Arizona State University), exploring environmental issues specific to the desert of the North-American Southwest. We combine philosophical inquiry with speculative design and action research to explore divergent approaches to desertification (both ecological and cultural), zombie-utopias, panpsychism, beyond-human relationships and probabilistic future preparedness. | Dust and Shadow is FoAM's contribution to a transdisciplinary research and residency programme at the ASU (Arizona State University) focused on environmental issues specific to the North-American Southwest. We combine philosophical inquiry with experiential futures and technological arts to explore existing and potential relationships between people and the desert. By addressing the mythical and experiential underpinnings of contemporary life in the desert, we invite emotional engagement with abstract concepts, such as desertification, climate weirding or attunement. We design participatory experiences and experimental publications, as evocative propositions for re-alignment of urban and desert ecosystems. |
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| In collaboration with The Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), Laboratory of Critical Technics (LCT) and the Synthesis Lab of the Arizona State University (ASU). | |
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| | * photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157681429258454 |
| | * Dust & shadow on FoAM's website: https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow/ |
| * fragments https://d-u-s-t-and-shadow.tumblr.com | * fragments https://d-u-s-t-and-shadow.tumblr.com |
| * photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157681429258454 | |
| * FoAM activity page: https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow/ | |
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| ==== Field trips / Field notes ==== | |
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| * [[dust and shadow/fieldtrip 1]] / FieldNotes #1: https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-1-48e94d02540b | |
| * [[dust and shadow/fieldtrip 2]] ... | |
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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/zzkt/25435689083/}}\\ | |
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| ==== timecycles ==== | |
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| How all of this might unfold (TBC and subject to change without notice) | |
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| * Spring 2017 (may/june): fieldtrip, observations, questions, travelogue, etc. \\ | |
| * Summer 2017 (july/august): articulating research questions, literature research, mapping, etc.\\ | |
| * Fall 2017 (end november -> ~15th december): FoAM presentation/talk at LCT, research retreat, formulating hypotheses/propositions for experiments, commonplace publication pt1\\ | |
| * Spring 2018: temporary FoAM lab @ ASU: prototyping, experiments (first iteration), FoAM's 'injections' in (graduate) courses (?), commonplace publication pt2 (fieldguide for further experiments)\\ | |
| * Fall 2018 (or spring 2019): Second action research cycle, ending in a public experiment, printed publication (and possibly an 'exploded publication' in the form of an exhibition)\\ | |
| * (+ continuous online documentation)\\ | |
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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34924661822/}}\\ | |
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| ====publication(s)==== | |
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| ==== Reader vol.I ==== | |
| * in progress -> [[dust_and_shadow/reader_1]] | |
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| ====Bibliographic==== | |
| * https://www.zotero.org/groups/dust_and_shadow/items | |
| * [[dark_ecology_morton|dark ecology]] | |
| * http://tinyletter.com/hautepop/letters/disturbances-12-anti-modern | |
| * romantic machines, [[panpsychism]], animism, etc, vegetal mind, human scale systems, non-human technologies | |
| * [[the mushroom at the end of the world]] as counterpoint to [[in the dust of this planet]] | |
| * [[https://www.thersa.org/globalassets/pdfs/reports/spiritualise-report.pdf|Spiritualise]], Revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges (RSA report) | |
| * [[https://medium.com/@schoolofmyth/a-counsel-of-resistance-and-delight-in-the-face-of-fear-91ddb91dc415|A counsel of resistance and delight]] | |
| * [[https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/ronan-harrington/why-spirituality-is-key-to-more-visionary-politics|Why spirituality is key to more visionary politics]] | |
| * [[http://dark-mountain.net/blog/2016-you-want-it-darker/|You want it darker]] | |
| * [[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7310/full/4661046a.html|Sensing nature]] | |
| * [[https://medium.com/@bruces/the-temporary-autonomous-zone-1991-ffdc0f6cfe31|The TAZ]] | |
| * [[https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-why-witchcraft-is-making-a-comeback-in-art|art and witchcraft]] (and Adam Nocek's Reclaiming Witchcraft) | |
| * [[http://pica.org.au/show/radical-ecologies/|radical ecologies]] | |
| * [[http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/legisAct#2|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/ | |
| * reading notes for [[humankind_notes|Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People]] | |
| * [[https://blog.faridrener.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/abrams-the-spell-of-the-sensuous.pdf|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 | |
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| | //In collaboration with The Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), Desert Humanities Initiative, Center for Philosophical Technologies (CPT), Laboratory of Critical Technics (LCT) and the Synthesis Lab of the Arizona State University (ASU).// |
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| We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals. –McKenzie Wark | |
| </blockquote> | |
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