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future_fabulators:annbonny_s_ark [2014-06-27 09:59] – alkan | future_fabulators:annbonny_s_ark [2014-06-27 10:18] – [Our trajectories] 87.196.113.253 | ||
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Tina: The context in my earlier days (being with Time's Up) gave me the opportunity to develop a broad spectrum of interests. One of them, amongst others, has been into migration and nomadism of all sorts, triggering smaller and bigger social changes and impacts. I have been aware and interested in the formation of "the raft", slowly growing and turning into floating villages, populated with all kinds of people with different educational and cultural backgrounds, | Tina: The context in my earlier days (being with Time's Up) gave me the opportunity to develop a broad spectrum of interests. One of them, amongst others, has been into migration and nomadism of all sorts, triggering smaller and bigger social changes and impacts. I have been aware and interested in the formation of "the raft", slowly growing and turning into floating villages, populated with all kinds of people with different educational and cultural backgrounds, | ||
- | The moment the first Ark was about to leave I decided to join. Credible rumors said, that the " | + | The moment the first Ark was about to leave I decided to join. Credible rumors said, that the " |
Shortly after I arrived at the Ark, I developed an - to my own surprise - interest in food-supply which was/is a big issue at the Ark, due to restricted space and resources. There was a growing group of mixed experts and non-experts, | Shortly after I arrived at the Ark, I developed an - to my own surprise - interest in food-supply which was/is a big issue at the Ark, due to restricted space and resources. There was a growing group of mixed experts and non-experts, | ||
- | Due to the recent glitch we lost a huge amount of both, our knowledge | + | Due to the recent glitch we lost a huge amount of both, our knowledge |
Apart from finding people who help regaining this knowledge I'm also here at this cocktail party to find people helping our chefs to collect ideas for dishes mainly consisting of our momentary staples, being loads of algae and mushrooms, tiny pumpkins and rice-extract which through heat gains its known texture and form. We still have a varied stock of herbal and spice essences left. | Apart from finding people who help regaining this knowledge I'm also here at this cocktail party to find people helping our chefs to collect ideas for dishes mainly consisting of our momentary staples, being loads of algae and mushrooms, tiny pumpkins and rice-extract which through heat gains its known texture and form. We still have a varied stock of herbal and spice essences left. | ||
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It was Ann Bonny who convinced me that I should join the crew as an ambassador of Earth-bound Third Culture, a living example of intertwingularity and an early warning sign in unproductive (or dangerous) conflict situations. Since then I have been training in connecting everything (and everyone) with everything (and everyone) else, often working with [[:/ | It was Ann Bonny who convinced me that I should join the crew as an ambassador of Earth-bound Third Culture, a living example of intertwingularity and an early warning sign in unproductive (or dangerous) conflict situations. Since then I have been training in connecting everything (and everyone) with everything (and everyone) else, often working with [[:/ | ||
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+ | Ladies and gentlemen, | ||
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+ | welcome here tonight | ||
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+ | It seems that I have been elected as some form of ambassador to speak. This is, as you might imagine, an embarrassment to me and possibly to you. I am a doddery old man. I have enjoyed the past three or more weeks in a hermitage, meditating on all sorts of things. Speech is strange. | ||
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+ | Please excuse me if I mix or miss my religious or metaphysical metaphors. I seem to have forgotten | ||
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+ | We, a few people, have ended up in your exhibition closing cocktails. We have wanted to talk to you because you, the practitioners of the X factor, seem closest to the place that most of us came from. What you call the X factor, we call the third culture. Not the third world, but a place beyond this art-science disjunction. Our world seems strange to you because, as an anomaly of sorts, we come from the future. Unfortunately our present, i.e. your future, is as every bit and mundane as your everyday is to your grandparents. Boring, huh. | ||
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+ | We would also like to apologise, because it seems that our arriving here had some strange effects on air traffic in France. Our algorithms were a bit off. We hope your delays were not too severe. | ||
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+ | Just as a form of explanation, | ||
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+ | If you cannot change it, don't worry about it. | ||
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+ | Keep calm and Carry on. We felt like English royalty. On the open ocean. We all began to. As the floating villages formed, we all felt special. We applied our skills in technology and the arts to survival and surviving well. We recycled everything, we shared our skills. We had to keep notes and open source everything, to keep our world afloat. One of the most sought after skills was plumbing, so we all became plumbers, managing the fresh and not so fresh water, composting our shit and growing veges. As the land became too hard to live on, with overpopulation and climate stress, the rafts became our new home and we were one of the first. | ||
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+ | Today is a special day. Anne Bonny, while not our leader, was an inspiration for us all. Four years ago she passed away, or at least passed into cryogenic suspension. The woman who said that a person should be able to write a sonnet and an instruction manual, who made cold fusion reproducable and open source, has given her name to our ark. The ark is the logical extension of the rafts, a spaceship the size of Madeira, slowly getting ready to unfurl her solar sail and depart this planet for the greatest adventure. | ||
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+ | Which is why we are here with you. Please mingle with us, see whether you would like to join us in this future of the X factor, this third culture that is preparing to depart for good. There are no fixed roles on the ark, we ask you to join and to change. | ||
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+ | While we would like to toast Anna Bonny, our reluctant and humble hero, we would also like to propose a toast. A toast to the third culture and to you, dear xCoAxers, for watering the seeds of it in these strange times that you live in. | ||
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