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+ | Humans as a species operate within a framework of symbolic representation that enables us to articulate ideas, share ideas, plan, design, make decisions, and reflect. We associate this with literacy, but for the majority of human evolution, we used very different frameworks, sometimes even the landscape itself to organise thought. All over the world cultures associated knowledge to features in the landscape; the Aboriginal songlines of Australia, the Native American pilgrimage trails, and the Neolithic causeways and henges of Europe. This is landscape as mind-palace. Bringing practices together from a wide range of sources I’ve been experimenting in my area of Amsterdam with these almost entirely forgotten ‘techniques’ of ‘applied animism' | ||
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==== Monster Code ==== | ==== Monster Code ==== | ||
- | //Monster// refers to imagination. //Code// refers to encoding things geographically. The name is an adaptation of [[memory_code]] the title of the book by Lynne Kelley, on ways of encoding environmental, | + | //Monster// refers to imagination. //Code// refers to encoding things geographically. The name is an adaptation of [[memory_code]] the title of the book by Lynne Kelley, on ways of encoding environmental, |
* monster: **our memory of character**: | * monster: **our memory of character**: | ||
* code: **our memory for geography**: | * code: **our memory for geography**: | ||
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=== current walks: === | === current walks: === | ||
- | * timeline of US presidents encoded into shopping street (Jan Evertsenstraat, | + | * timeline of **US presidents** encoded into shopping street (Jan Evertsenstraat, |
- | * timeline of hominids encoded into opposite side of shopping street (each block 1 million years) (Jan Evertsenstraat, | + | * timeline of **hominids** and **European Proboscidea** |
- | * mindpalace of damselflies (into branch structure of tree at FoAM's MidWest garden) | + | * mindpalace of Dutch **damselflies** (into branch structure of tree at FoAM's MidWest garden) |
=== structures: === | === structures: === | ||
- | * areas: to encode important instances, moments, ideas, entities | + | |
- | * places: to encode important instances, moments, ideas, entities | + | |
- | * entities (monsters): help embody important details when there is little in terms of features available on location | + | |
- | * lines (of places or areas): to encode a sequence of any kind | + | |
- | * cycles: anything that has no beginning or end, but does have an order | + | |
- | * branches: lines that fork, for example for related plant-families, | + | |
* combinations of the above | * combinations of the above | ||
=== examples === | === examples === | ||
- | * Aboriginal songlines of Australia | + | * [[https:// |
* Native American pilgrimage trails | * Native American pilgrimage trails | ||
* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
* ceremonial roads of the Pacific Islands | * ceremonial roads of the Pacific Islands | ||
- | * neolithic causeways of Europe | + | * neolithic causeways, processional avenues and henges |
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* pg 127 the soul passes from one chariot to another and this gives creation order, it moves through a particular set of things created by the same ancestor in the Dreaming. | * pg 127 the soul passes from one chariot to another and this gives creation order, it moves through a particular set of things created by the same ancestor in the Dreaming. | ||
+ | === Run like hell === | ||
American poet Ruth Stone works as a farmer in rural Virginia. She describes the creation of a poem as something she feels and hears emanating from the landscape. A poem is like a thundering train of air coming towards her, shaking the earth beneath her feet. In that moment, there is only one thing left for her to do, and that is "//run like hell// | American poet Ruth Stone works as a farmer in rural Virginia. She describes the creation of a poem as something she feels and hears emanating from the landscape. A poem is like a thundering train of air coming towards her, shaking the earth beneath her feet. In that moment, there is only one thing left for her to do, and that is "//run like hell// | ||
+ | === How things shape the mind === | ||
+ | Working with Renfrew, Malafouris developed an approach to the study of the human mind, past and present, known as **Material Engagement Theory** (MET) which has three central tenets:\\ | ||
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+ | * Cognition is extended and enacted because material forms are part of the mind and cognition is the interaction between brains, bodies, and material forms. | ||
+ | * Materiality has agency because it is able to influence change in brains and behaviors. | ||
+ | * Meaning (signification) emerges through the active engagement of material forms. | ||
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+ | These tenets provide an archaeological framework that " | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | Important concepts developed by Malafouris include:\\ | ||
+ | * metaplasticity, | ||
+ | * thinging, the idea that humans think with and through material things[6] | ||
+ | * neuroarchaeology, | ||
+ | * see also [[https:// | ||
==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ==== | ==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ==== |