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ble imperative of the ecological surrounds which call to us through inhuman modalities. The desert is f... blue. The scale of its unstructured blueness is hallucinatory. So far beyond anything the human eyes c... imperative of desert ecology, my comrades and I called upon our nomadic companions Maja Kuzmanovic and... ssible understanding and drew schema across vast walls only to redraw them like a palimpsest of collect
reserve its natural conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the f... f nature, with the imprint of man’s work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has outstanding opportunities ... through the ages like tumbleweeds. Things don’t really decay here. They shrivel, dry up or slowly rust, yet remain present, as they gradually erode into dust. A thick, dusty atmosphere of th
ane are the concepts themselves, but the plane is all that holds them together...The plane of immanence... through this process, the irruption of one being called “man” transforms into the whole of beings: Man.... , grasped, and revered as the Being through which all other beings come to have meaning: homo sapiens. ... is revealed to be the kind of being that grounds all other beings. Science announces the end of all ot
gy is not just a method of description of any and all relevant phenomena; it is also an ongoing spiritu... d and nature intelligible and livable, both personally and communally. Further, the self now recognizes that some key aspects of its own horizon are arbitra... at cannot be captured by any human horizon nor by all of them in consort. Finally, the self comes to an
n futures, and are thus free of time.
<cite>J.G. Ballard. The Atrocity Exhibition</cite></blockquote>
... olitics in the North American South West, specifically to life in the desert? What are the implications... ronment they live in? What peculiar futures or parallel presents exist in this “Valley of the Sun”? What new worlds can emerge from a region swayed by the u
ward behind the horizons of ordinary experience, calling attention to itself. I cherish such experience... of humility before the unknown, awe has come to challenge us as only "the not yet known". That is fine, but let us never allow the impulse to understand the firmament outshin... , rather than its manager or exploiter. Etymologically, ecology means the study of home. Ecology is not
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Attunement tends to take place at a small scale, usually focusing on subtle differences in intonation. It is only with attention for the smallness in life, the small intertwining movements of the human and non-human, that we are able to properly
en thing which stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these, I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, natur... interesting things in the landscape—a large or small rock, a plant, a leaf, a feather, etc. Rather tha
. Another body may reach out to meet our own and call for a new posture and orientation. The sensation ... h the stone surfaces have breathed air that chemically transforms their coloring. Here in what geologists call the Vishnu layer of planetary sediment, a hand ac... time but in a duration beyond the registers of an all too human thought. With such touch, we are in a n
"]]// by **David Abram**
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For most traditionally oral, indigenous cultures that we know of, any and every phenomenon is potentially animate; everything moves. All things are felt to have their own pulse, their own inner spontaneity o... seemed to respond to their surroundings as though all things were alive and (at least potentially) awar
ockquote>Enlightenment is a dodgy proposition. It all depends how much you want to risk. Not money so m... p be-hind the field, the last you’d’ve expected, tall, shining, inevitable, and passes through them all like a beam of morning sunlight through the spectral... did some farming but many tribes were also seasonally semi-nomadic for hunting, harvesting, and climat
December 8th 2019
A study room, an immersive installation, a portal into a parallel present or a possible future. It is a place shapeshifting between a mis... ration with: Amy Carolyn Watson, Emily Pattni, AJ Allison, Nikka Balcazo, Rigo Berber, Kara Deacon, Kat... ps://goo.gl/maps/oA1hYbeNuR92|North Shore Volley Ball courts]], Tempe Town Lake \\
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Field trip for locals and travellers to experientially attune to the desert environment. Through "durat... We need to spend time in the desert to experientially attune to the environment. Communing rather than... nicate with entities we share the planet with. At all times there are other beings listening. We can he... sonal needs. In other words, given two or more equally valid models of the universe, thalience is the a
d from the current conditions and environmental challenges in the region. We asked, //"What are the (en... t", a speculative urban centre in Arizona in a parallel present or possible future.
<blockquote>Pero a... tives; Risk tolerance; Job creation; "Innovation Valley of the Sun" | Collective incentives; Government... importantly, most wonderfully, their love. Ironically, only by diving deeper can the ice melt.
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son (human or otherwise) or even one's own being calls for an open and receptive state of mind. It is a... ears, prejudices or judgements. This can be especially valuable in moments of crisis or when faced with... ntrol. It can deepen your appreciation of life in all its impermanent shapes and forms, from the scent ... ion to phenomena that are too quiet, too big or small, too quick or slow to notice while going about th
