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1. Re: yasmin thinking aloud provocations for the post-pandemic
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:38:52 -0400
From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
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Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] yasmin thinking aloud provocations
for the post-pandemic
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Dear Roger and All,
I would like to offer to the group a recently-completed project that, I believe, specifically addresses your questions regarding catalysts for alternative imaginaries?Romantic Naturalists, Dadaists, Surrealists, anarchists, radical biologists, social ecologists, and improvising musicians provide the clues. In a nutshell, I suggest practices and frameworks that emphasize and enhance collaboration, spontaneity, care, the ludic, and the dialectical, in defying convention, contain the potential to subvert it.
Provocations:
1. I suggest that in the post-pandemic world, creative practices (ones that arouse the imagination, senses, and emotions??the marvelous? as sought by both the Romantic Naturalists and the Surrealists) must be embraced as essential forms of knowledge production in and of themselves. These can be constructively applied?not simply as embellishment or in a support capacity?but in concert with science?s rigorous and dispassionate methods.
2. The objective stance we are obliged to take as good scientists in fact reinforces the notion that humans are autonomous entities/outside observers, separate from one another and the biosphere?the virus, however, powerfully demonstrates the ways in which humanity is interwoven with and inseparable from the vast milieu of planetary systems and forces. Can dualism be applied when due, while undue dualism is undone?
?An Intricate Ensemble: The Art-Science of An Ecological Imaginary for the Anthropocene Epoch" is available for download in its entirety at RISD Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/415/ <https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/415/>. Feedback, comments, and critique welcome.
I am grateful to you, Nina, and Joel for bringing this topic to the list, and look forward to the ensuing discussion!
With best regards,
Alyce Santoro
alycesantoro.com <http://www.alycesantoro.com/>
> On Mar 30, 2020, at 2:34 PM, YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr> wrote:
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> colleagues
>
> we know your email boxes are full of email gonorrhea-- this email is
> not infectious-trust us
> hah
> thank you jack ox for sharing your on line course materials- open
> access sharing is
> what we need in the gift exchange culture of the yasmin villages
>
> Nina Czegledy, Joel Slayton and I have started thinking privately about how
> to enable post pandemic ideas which we are calling 'provocations'
> (which art/sci/tech
> hybrids are expert in)
>
> But Joel insists that rather than by yet another futurist attempt to
> predict what the world might look like, the focus would look to
> ?provoke ? alternative solutions to immediate challenges in the post pandemic
>
> we build on the success of the anarchists, futurism, dada, E.A.T, in
> seeding generative ideas that took root
>
> we will moderate the yasmin lists carefully so that we dont contribute
> to the e-pandemic that is spreading
> quicker on the internet than the biological one in the ecosystems of
> our home planet
>
> Roger Malina
>
>
>
> Roger in Dallas, please phone/txt/ +15108532007 if urgent
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