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transdisciplinary, interstitial, resilient...

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FoAM, to random

"In the gloaming, amidst liquid shadows, the liminal shimmers." 🌌 A shimmering mid-year sonic transit with Lowdjo's latest mix for FoAM's Anarchive.

https://fo.am/blog/2023/06/30/in-the-gloaming/

FoAM, to random

Streaming now: https://fo.am/events/reveil-2023/

FoAM, to random

Hot off the press: The Infinite Table – a deck of cards for growing worlds at the scale of the dinner table.

A toy, storytelling game, and construction kit, with 22 picture cards that can be connected in an almost infinite number of combinations.

Now available in the FoAM Shop.
https://shop.fo.am/product/the-infinite-table/

Cards connected together to form a structure. on a table.
The infinite table. open. on a table.
One of the tables found in infinite table.
One of the tables found in infinite table.
One of the tables found in infinite table.

FoAM, to random

A guide to FoAM's crystal route, probing different approaches to navigating uncertainty ⬖ Gather together and engage with whatever crosses your path, seed new realities and grow your own worlds

🛠️ 🌿

https://fo.am/blog/2023/04/29/a-crystal-guide/

FoAM,

A Gonzo Futurish Manifesto: Opening the door to a futurist who seeks randomness, collapses linear thought, and ups their game

https://anarchive.fo.am/crystal/gonzo-futurish-manifesto/

FoAM,

With all Caveats: Manifesto Writing in an Age of Uncertainty

https://anarchive.fo.am/crystal/with-all-caveats/

FoAM,

These Uncertain Times: Collective taming of uncertainty are effortful achievements, requiring maintenance and upkeep

https://anarchive.fo.am/crystal/these-uncertain-times/

FoAM,

Hip Deep in the Thick Present: Using the tools of science fiction and social theory to explore infrastructural reconfigurations for Anthropocene futures

https://anarchive.fo.am/crystal/hip-deep-in-thick-present/

FoAM,

Skirting the Adjacent Possible: From anticipation as an instrument for effective decision making, to anticipation as a metamorphic craft of selection, uncovering, re-connecting, and re-animating things already present

https://anarchive.fo.am/crystal/skirting-adjacent-possible/

FoAM,

Words Which Matter to People: Considering the necessity of living language and its implementation

https://anarchive.fo.am/crystal/words-which-matter-to-people/

FoAM, to random

To mark the transition into the second half of the solar year, we tend to things transient, unfinished, and overlooked. Some experiments and impressions of being with the world-at-large, foreshadowing the 'wabi sabi' reader from the @_foam Anarchive.

An invitation to wander, to watch and wait, noticing and letting things unfold. 🍂

#anarchive #wabisabi #transience #noticing #overlooked #unfinished #侘び寂び

[Caligraphy by Maki Ueda]

FoAM,

The House is Haunted by Itself. Moving, Still. A call to partake in the radical act of noticing.

#groundstate #shimmering #haunting #meditation #stillness

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/house-haunted-by-itself/

FoAM,

Where the Fireflies Glowed and Flickered Behind the Big Wooden Buddha Temple in a Summer Long Ago, and Other Lights in Other Years Blinked in the Liquid Darkness.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/where-the-fireflies-glowed-and-flickered/

FoAM,

Times Like These...

A spotlight on alternative temporal orders, where the hold of gridded time loosens or breaks; spaces and situations beyond the reach of the clock.
— @jcalpickard

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/times-like-these/

FoAM,

Stillness. Stills from a world in motion. Seeking out that which hides in shadows and flickers in refractions.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/stillness/

FoAM,

Navigating the liminal and the in-between.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/transitions/

FoAM,

The exquisite & the liminal. 侘び寂び moods & textures, where matter records its own weathering. Worlds abide in the humble and mundane, with hints of worlds becoming otherwise.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/the-exquisite-and-the-liminal/

FoAM,

The dance of not-knowing. Cultivating beginner’s mind in a thickening present.

#beginnersmind #notknowing #presence #meditation #play #improv

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/not-knowing/

FoAM,

Lying Flat

Tangpingism, a movement encouraging its proponents to lay flat.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/lying-flat/

FoAM,

Fallowing as a regenerative practice, of benefit to fields, bodies and networks.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/fallowing/

FoAM,

Warping time frames. Arrows and circles, warps and whorls; instances of movement from linear time to something else.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/warping-time-frames/

FoAM,

Planning with the Seasons: an experiment in de-homogenising working time.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/seasons/

FoAM,

"Time did not so much elapse as grow less relevant."
—Thomas Pynchon

An impressionistic collage on timelessness, time unbinding, and the experience of being outside time.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/timelessness/

FoAM,

Honing our skills in the Crafts of Noticing, we've collated immersive, multisensory practices for being-in-the-world. Tried and tested in various situations and surroundings by FoAM & friends across multiple timezones.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/crafts-of-noticing/

FoAM,

"Such is our way of thinking – we find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the pattern of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates."
—Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/in-shadow/

FoAM,

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