@kelli_cain’s live notes:
hello. welcome. thank you.
an assemblage is an open ended entanglement of ways of being.
varied trajectories and indeterminacies.
entanglement
indeterminacy
knots.
mushrooms.
honeybees.
tides.
in terms of scheduled arrivals, the ocean shows up when it wants to.
euclidean geometries calling on heavens. points equidistant to a fixed point extending from a center, into a center. moving in or along a curving path. located or situated on every side.
to surround.
be surrounded.
sound sound.
freedom emerges from open ended play. conflict. potential misunderstandings.
freedom is the negotiation of ghosts on a haunted landscape, it does not exorcise the haunting but works to survive and negotiate it.
the watcher of the gates is the crusher of spontinaety.
I spelled that word wrong and i’m owning it.
also, the watcher crushes fun.
it’s a parasite.
schiller wrote:
in the case of the creative mind the intellect has removed its watcher from the gates.
a dispossession. an expulsion. the old heave ho. kiss off? an eviction. see you later watcher.
brian tours with
jugglers.
on the regular.
they make cool videos
in iceland.
mycellium is the neurological network of nature. interlacing mosaics of mycellium infuse habitats with information sharing membranes. these membranes are
aware.
react to change.
and collectively have long term health of the host environment in mind. (paul stamets)
“and they talked, and new worlds
were born of their talking.
it is of the nature of idea to be
communicated, written, spoken
done.
the idea is like grass. it craves
light.
it likes crowds.
thrives on crossbreeding,
grows better for being stepped on.” ursula k. le guin
encounters are by their nature indeterminate.
we are unpredictably transformed by them.
response takes us to new places.
the important stuff for life on earth happens through encounter. assemblage.
contamination.
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precarity. (precarity is a word right?)
openness
indeterminacy
contamination
visible light.
electromagnetic radiation.
encounter. encountering, encounters.
would you like to see random photos of our farm?
would you like to ask us any questions?
(update:)
notes from and thoughts on:
“ mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins ” by anna lowenhaupt tsing
“ ritual and consciousness monoculture ” by sarah perry
friedrich von schiller’s letter to a friend
“ mycelium running ” by paul stamets
“ book of disquiet ” by fernando pessoa
“ designing design ” by kenya hara
“ infinite jest ” by david foster wallace
“ small is beautiful ” by e.f. shumacher
“ we used to be everywhere ” by craig foltz
“ one straw revolution ” by masanobu fukuoka
“ the dispossessed ” by ursula k. le guin
“ silence ” by john cage
