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| A [[transition town]] group that searches and manages vagrant urban zones that for some reason have been left to fallow. | A [[transition town]] group that searches and manages vagrant urban zones that for some reason have been left to fallow. |
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| We go around by bike and we scrutinize google.earth for local outburst of weed, crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects in all stages of sucession. see: http://socialfiction.org/?tag=ttnomad | We go around by bike and we scrutinize google.earth for local crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects. see: http://socialfiction.org/?tag=ttnomad |
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| We are in Utrecht, the Netherlands, but we could be anywhere. We are a Transition Town group taking part in local activities and initiatives but we are also psychogeographers on a rampage, Ethno-Eco-Primate-Poetic librarians retweeting language without end, Tupi-Surrealists on a desire-war-path, fighting the google-jugend! | http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ is one inspiration with street-cred and currency but the real motivation for us is the rich field of Amazonian anthropology from classic ethnography to modern ethnobotany to future excavations of the lost garden cities of Xingu. |
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| | Our manifesto is called "Fight the Google-Jugend", which is in art-academic peer-review right now but far from finished. |
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| http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ is one inspiration with street-cred and currency but the real motivation for us is the rich field of Amazonian anthropology from classic ethnography to modern ethnobotany to future excavations of the lost garden cities of Xingu. | We will hook-up with the local TT people but the Nomad-principle is applicable everywhere and should appeal to a mindset that is open to less literal more psychogeographically informed vision of what a city can look after the great ecological, population and resource crash. |
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| Nomadic people, contrary to popular misconception, do not roam free. The Yanomami, the Waorani, the Koruba are not surrealists navigators, they are not tossing a coin at every turn to decide where to go next. Trails are not desire paths, they are not deviations. The nomad instead follows cyclic paths. These paths are their 'home' for as long as the their trek reaffirms them as part of their collective heritage. Over time the nomad can create or amplify (actively, accidentally, serendipitously) useful resources along the trail, aka [[Nomadic Agriculture]]. | Nomadic people, contrary to popular misconception, do not roam free. The Yanomami, the Waorani, the Koruba are not surrealists navigators, they are not tossing a coin at every turn to decide where to go next. Trails are not desire paths, they are not deviations. The nomad instead follows cyclic paths. These paths are their 'home' for as long as the their trek reaffirms them as part of their collective heritage. Over time the nomad can create or amplify (actively, accidentally, serendipitously) useful resources along the trail, aka [[Nomadic Agriculture]]. |
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