On 6/11/19 5:27 PM, Jaromil wrote: > dear Bruce and nettimers, > [...] > 3. the "shamanic" value that can be embedded in uses of technologies, > as opposed to the sanitized and rational interpretation given by > designers in the west. Techno-shamanism is something Fabi Borges, > Vicky Sinclair and other good folks in Bricolabs have been busy for > ages!
Thanks for mentioning this, Jaromil! Yes, the maker movement has been largely oblivious to the shamanic and spiritual aspects and uses of technology, which also affects the very definition of "technology" as a concept. We ay have our modern technology, but the indigenous peoples have their ancestral technologies which are in many ways superior to our own when it comes to interacting with this our planet; *and* which combine with modern technologies in many interesting ways. At the moment, we in the technoshamanistm network (myself, Fabi Borges, Rafael Frazão, Raísa Innocêncio and a number of others) have an ongoing collaboration (since 2014) with the Pataxó village of Pará near Monte Pascoal. These indigenous people are, in a way, the original makers: They build their own houses and grow their food themselves - in these modern times, this extends to fixing their own motorbikes and buggys. Our current project is to raise money for a collaborative effort to create a health centre in the village. The purpose is partly to offer facilities for visiting nurses and doctors (so the Pataxó might be attended, at intervals, without travelling too far), partly to create a centre for indigenous healing methods. These structures will be built by a communal effort in November, in which people are invited to participate - to lend a hand, but also to learn from the Pataxó and their ways. If you feel this sounds like a good idea and would like to help it happen, feel free to chip in at the end of this link: https://www.catarse.me/mutirao_da_saude_pataxo_2019 In the meanwhile, if you want to get a sense for who the Pataxó are and what kind of work we do in the technoshamanism network, feel free to check out the pictures from the festival we did with the Pataxó, back in 2016: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22405820@N08/albums/72157673936765924 Best Carsten # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: