Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files==== Futuring: uncertainties ==== Core question: What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the American South-West? Technique used to probe the question: [[:futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|CLA]] === Heat === | ^ Current ^ Alt ^ ^ Litany | Impact, duration & intensity of heat-waves | Seeking shade & shadows; Daily & yearly rhythms attuned to desert cycles (Saguaro time) | ^ Causes | Climate change; Lifestyle & cities not adapted to desert conditions | Shade-based architecture and transport; Situated learning; Government is the medium; Monastic entities for rethinking time | ^ Worldviews | Man has dominion over Earth; Right to property and prosperity | Long, durational desert abiding (qualitative time); Redesign of the body attuned to the event (alignment, emergence) | ^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); Noble Savage | Desert Attunement; American Gods; Evolutionary architecture; Long temporality of nothingness followed by abrupt change, return to nothingness | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/25203130778/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ === Water === | ^ Current ^ Alt ^ ^ Litany | Distribution, pricing and quality of water | Governance and sharing of a variable water supply as a commons | ^ Causes | Weak public infrastructure and political inaction; growing population; economic valuation; water rights and food sovereignty |Variable abundance & commons management (stewarding, minding); Feasts & festivals (train social commitment) | ^ Worldviews | Individual self-reliance and DIY; libertarian ethos, free market | Sociality of a coven/dionisian feast; Social responsibility, commitment and obligation; A spirit/transformational field| ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Godless (Guns & God); sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world, time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/39069871571/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ === Tech industry === | ^ Current ^ Alt ^ ^ Litany | Impact of the tech industry | Impact of Antennae-centric tech industry; Smart-grid & solar; Ambient & responsive; Rise of new attunement instruments | ^ Causes | Economic incentives; Risk tolerance; Job creation; "Innovation Valley of the Sun" | Collective incentives; Government supports trans-species chanelling, Tech-supported complementary currencies; ecological resource management; Non-representational media and occult/alchemical technologies| ^ Worldviews | Faith in technological progress; American pragmatism; Distrust of educated elites; Protestant work ethic; Importance of tangible, visible and measurable contribution to society; Immortality |Serial monotasking (commitment to the act); Bringing together heterogeneous systems where medium is the catalyst (biomimicry); Attunement to differentials| ^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, John Ford films, Pioneers, Atomism of the isolated subject; Idleness is the devil's playground; Existential quests and transcendence in the desert | City & the city, The Laundry Files, The New Renaissance, dissolving, trance, enthusiasm| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/24209186507/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ === Saguaro Times === //Headlines from "Saguaro Times", daily newspaper in a future/parallel Phoenix// == Commons news == * Government is (still) the medium * New century calendar updates approved * Water tokens fluctuating * Wiccan Goddess elected to government in a landslide victory * The governor reveals the new monument "to honor our heroes, the brave homeless" * Salt River Shade Route: new public transit "Covered protection everywhere you want to be" * Polls suggest that engineering majors at all time low, while ficto-criticism, coven studies and environmental theory at all time high * Shade traversal association conscripts snowbirds for summer cycles == Daily attunement == * Heat attunement classes by Cowboy Missionaries at the Desert Monastery * Saguaro monks lead attunement festival preparation * The water levels have spoken! * Desert attunement center reopens after possession season * Death pilgrims return == Our living environment == * New season shadow patterns emerge * Sounds of meteors this spring * Architectural structures form ecomimetic shade routes * Sprouts cracked Phoenix-Tucson highway creating a new venue the Desert Fest * Landscaping co-ops beautify the buffer zone * How to feed your bats? * Seven Arm Jack still standing after floods * Drought cycles lengthening == Time Out in Phoenix == * Where to see, what to do during this summer migration (with cooking tips) * Festival of Shades at the Occult Shade monastery featuring Ethereal Dead * Pokemon Go - Capture that Heat! * The sweet smell of success: Mesquite * Maple syrup - lemon preserve exchange ~ Again! * 3rd International Conference on Shade Studies to be held in Phoenix * Local native community hosts 12th Annual low-tech cooling festival == Tech Review == * Tech boom or antenna bubble? * Antennae repairs not included in dust tax rewrite * Nomad tech on smart grids * Seasonal drift stresses old infrastructure == True Crime == * Tree-cycle clocks vandalised by property fundamentalists * Gun-range courtyard dispute ongoing * Power execs sentenced to 10 years shade growth * Shadow-world expedition washed away by flash-floods (Expect hermeneuts and invite time intensification; Open your courtyards at siesta time) == Saguaro humor == * In shade we trust! * I throw up my arms in despair * These arms are (not) made for hugging * IRS = Internal Review of Shades * Shade grown coffee (and children) are rich, full and robust * Calling all late bloomers (you're right on time!) {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/39069991301/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. 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