Ships Not Shelters_POI_Shopwork by ultimogrito

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Dedicated to the leavers.

Published in 2011 by Shopwork www.shopwork.net

"Re-s e a r c h m e a n s l o o k a g a i n , d o n ' t it? Means t h e y ' r e l o o k i n g f o r s o m e t h i ng they f o u n d o n c e a n d i t g o t a w a y someh o w , a n d n o w t h e y g o t t o r e s e arch for i t ! " Lyman Enders Knowles Kurt Vonnegut â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cat's Cradle Consi d e r i n g L . K n o w l e s s t a t e m e n t a bove feel f r e e t o r e f e r t o u s a s a S e a rch & Devel o p m e n t / D e s i g n ( S & D / D ) p l a t f o rm. Our t o p i c s a r e m a n y a n d p o t e n t i a l ly any. T o p i c s t h a t a r e v e n t u r e d a n d there f o r e c h o s e n d u r i n g o u r r e g u l ar and n u m e r o u s d i a l o g u e s . S o m e a r e / were o f t h e m o m e n t b e l o n g i n g t o t he zeitg e i s t s , b u t m o s t a r e m o r e e n d uring and c o n s i s t e n t t h e m e s t h a t w e s h a re and c a n n o t r e s i s t t o b r i n g u p a t any given o p p o r t u n i t y . Shopw o r k

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Figure 1: Map of Space (taken from The Definitive Book of Space)

"2001 (A Space Odyssey) came out in sixty eight. That's a whole year before man landed on the moon, and so the first generation of Exo-Earth humans that went out into space, landed on a foreign, untouched, unexplored world, already had in their minds such a definitive piece of simulacra as a reference. I'm not going to go as far as to say it dictated certain behaviour, like the way they documented and rationalised their journey, but it must have been an influence. An influence that early explorers of, say, the Antarctic wouldn't have been subjected to."

Background books "These need not accompany us physically; the point is that we travel with preconceived notions of the world, derived from our cultural tradition. In a very curious sense we travel knowing in advance what we are on the verge of discovering, because past reading has told us what we are supposed to discover." Umberto Eco - From Marco Polo to Leibniz

Blue-sky, No-sky, Dark-sky.

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Pupil and Socrates

This place is surely not your studio, the office, your house, my house, the pub, a cafe, "The Academy", a movement, lunch, bed, a game, a school, your car, a holiday, a train or a field. I remarked. I accept this to be so. It is none of those places and more. So you will not have seen, read or heard of its kind, so how will you know what is acceptable or what part you are expected to assume? It is a place and so I am aware of its inherent place-hood, and I being myself will assume a familiar role to the one I have always played. Even if this proves over time to be unbecoming I surely will learn and adapt? Learn from who and adapt to what? I asked. Of course you will borrow from your former self but this new environment is not so forgiving or responsive to anything that once was. Your learning will be of your own invention, and your surroundings will in time be a product of that learning. What will you make of yourself in a place that demands nothing of you?

Q.:Who invented gravity? A.:Sir Isaac Newton

Q.:W h o f o u n d e d P O I ? A.:W e d i d n ' t f o u n d i t ; we found it.

The H a c i e n d a M u s t B e B u i l t Ivan Chtcheglov The B a t - M o b i l e M u s t B e B u i l t Anvil "A seemingly naive or simple minded narrator who finds everything encountered somewhat surprising, notable and potentially amazing. The aim is perhaps to be the most interested and productive person in the room."

Sidereal time is a time-keeping system astronomers use to keep track of the direction at which to point their telescopes to view a given star in the night sky.

"Everybody hates a tourist. Especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh." – Pulp

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We ad v o c a t e t h e f i g u r e o f t h e p o s tdisci p l i n a r y , a k i n d o f ' a p p r e n t i ce of ev e r y t h i n g a n d m a s t e r o f n o t h i ng', an ac t i v e p a r t i c i p a n t i n t h e const r u c t i o n o f o u r s h a r e d i m a g e of ourse l v e s , t h e w o r l d , t h e u n i v e r s e… let’s c l a i m a p l a c e f o r t h e 'desi g n e r - e c c e n t r i c s ' .

To be a n o u t s i d e r i s n o t a b o u t b e ing outsi d e t h e s y s t e m b u t a b o u t b e i n g able t o l o o k a t t h e s y s t e m f r o m a s near t o t h e o u t s i d e a s y o u c a n . The o u t s i d e r s a r e a b l e t o a s s e s s the syste m i n a n e w l i g h t b e c a u s e t h e y do not s h a r e ( o r c h o o s e t o i g n o r e ) t he speci f i c s e t o f c u l t u r a l r u l e s t h at apply t o t h e s p e c i f i c s i t u a t i o n . Our i n t e r e s t l i e s o n t h e s e e d g e s , which w e t r y t o e x p l o r e , a n d i n v i te other s t o c o m e a n d e n j o y t h e v i e w s from h e r e . . .

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No Gallery? No Reference? No Money? Adjective belonging to a foreign country or nation • unfamiliar and disturbing or distasteful • relating to or denoting beings supposedly from other worlds • (of a plant or animal species) introduced from another country and later naturalized

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This b o o k i s t o b e c o n s i d e r e d as a h e r m e n e u t i c o f P O I a n d n o t of it s w o r k s . C o n t a i n e d w i t h i n this, a r e a d i n g o f i t s b e i n g , a r e some o r i g i n a l p i e c e s o f p r o s e , reali s e d & u n - r e a l i s e d p r o p o s a l s , inter p r e t a t i o n s , i m a g e s , r e f e r e n c es and q u o t e s . T h e n a r r a t i v e s , s h i f t ing voice , a u t h o r i t y a n d e v e n r e a l i t y is in d i c a t i v e o f t h e i n i t i a t i v e s missi o n a n d b e h a v i o u r s . I t s e r v e s as a bri e f f o r w o r k s t h a t a r e y e t t o be and r e t r o a c t i v e l y f o r t h a t w h i c h was alrea d y i n m o t i o n p r i o r t o f o r m a t ion. The c o n t e n t h a s b e e n g r o u p e d i n t o three l o o s e c h a p t e r s w h i c h a r e b a sed on a p r o p o s e d t h r e e s t a g e m i s s i o n . These s e c t i o n s a r e f u r t h e r e x p l a i ned via t h e u s e o f t h e ' 3 L ' s ' . T h e L 's are o u r R ' s ( t h e t h r e e R ' s b e i n g Readi n g , W r i t i n g a n d a R i t h m e t i c * ) and i s j u s t a s f l a w e d a s y s t e m f o r label l i n g o u r o u t p u t a s t h e R ' s a re for p r o p e r l y s u m m a r i s i n g a m a n i f e sto for b a s i c e d u c a t i o n , b u t t h e y a r e to be n o t e d a n d i n c l u d e d a s t h e ' 3 L's' w e r e a n d a r e c r i t i c a l d u r i n g the e a r l y s t a g e s o f P O I ' s w o r k a s well a s t h e c o m p i l a t i o n o f S n S ( S hips not S h e l t e r s ) . I t i s a l s o t h o u g h t to enhan c e t h e w a y f i n d i n g t h r o u g h t h e infor m a t i o n , h i g h l i g h t i n g t h e t e n sion betwe e n t h e n o n - l i n e a r a s p e c t s o f the work a n d t h e l i n e a r n a t u r e o f b o o ks.

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*The three Rs (as in the letter R) are the foundations of a basic skillsoriented education program within schools: Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic. The phrase was attributed to Sir William Curtis around 1825.

Leaving

Landing

POI â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Peckham Outer-Space Initi a t i v e i s a t t h e f o r e f r o n t o f searc h & d e v e l o p m e n t , a n d t a s k s i tself with t h e u t i l i s a t i o n o f s p a c e f o r not simpl y t h e p r e s e r v a t i o n b u t e v o l u tion of th e h u m a n s p e c i e s a n d i t s c u l t ure. A pri m a r y o b j e c t i v e f o r P O I i s t o devel o p a n d e s t a b l i s h i n - t r a n s i t non-E a r t h l i v i n g s i t u a t i o n s . T h e s e situa t i o n s a r e p r o p o s e d a s s o l u t i ons to cu r r e n t f o r m s o f p l a n e t a r y b a s ed socie t y a n d l i v i n g , a n d a s s u c h P OI emplo y s t h e m a n i f e s t o / s l o g a n : p. 1

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"In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates." Michel Foucault

The ship is the hetero -topia par excellence.

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Sermon On The Mound The foolish man built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. The wise man built his house on props and boosters: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew but his house was nowhere to be seen, for it was founded on props and boosters. As the rains lessened, the floods waned, and the winds quietened, the foolish man looked out from his home that had stood fast through the storm. The new day greeted him with devastation and despair, the life his house had fought so hard to preserve was now meaningless. Everything he once had considered true, just and real was now gone, and so to was the wise man. Gone.

It would seem that for the majority of [humanity's] existence a crude recurring theme has emerged when dealing with the prospect of great turmoil. We get down on our bellies, crawl into a ball and wait. We have of course developed more comfortable and sophisticated places from which to cower, but the situation we now face demands that we get into craft and look spaceward.

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"I wouldn't say Up & Out was an essential read as much of the thinking discussed is now so common. Although it remains a staple read due to its historic importance, I can't help but feel we are more than a little beyond this now."

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Me-topias vs Micro "Fuck your grand narratives." – Hennessy Youngman (on Post-structuralism)

"He liked this sort of old world atmosphere(…) and he liked the wall space. For one thing he felt in the other building that he had that it was all glass."

– Visions Of Space Mies van der Rohe: Less is More

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"You are responsible for what you are and, as well, you are responsible for everyone since you choose for mankind." p. 48

You-topias Macro

"He [Mies van der Rohe] designed those apartments for other people to live in."

"Anguish is what we feel when we recognize that we must choose for everyone, not just for ourselves, but cannot have any proof of being right." Paraphrase of Jean-Paul Sartre (on Existential Ethics)

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ANCIENT GREECE IN SPACE

An accuracy flouting, history ignoring, idealised…

"You should have this note of suspicion. And that’s largely it was the 19th century German scholarship which, as it were, invented the Greeks for us." Rick Roderick

Establishing an autonomous space complex, an overview: The project's success is reliant on understanding and establishing the balance between a state of the art adaptive and responsive environment, and a carefully considered occupant. Three of the major steps needed to achieve this are outlined here. The Orbita itself and the preceding two test simulations ‘L’ (land) and ‘S’ (submerged).

1. Land Simulation: Heygate Estate A true model of modern urban living, simulation ‘L’ is a much desired place to live, offering light and spacious living conditions with parts of the estate connected via walkways and bridges, reducing the need to stand on the surface. Designed to replicate isolated-complex-living, data collected will inform many new developments such as simulation ‘S’ and ‘Lunar Base Alpha’. Some residents have been vetted or invited but are mainly there by choice, free to come and go as they please. The complex provides shopping, education and recreational areas, making leaving the estate for anything but employment redundant.

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LAND SIMULATION: HEYGATE ESTATE

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2. Submerged Simulation: Phoenix The first pure example of a gated community is finally achieved in this offshore underwater platform, housing and sustaining a large community with no external contact for months at a time. The aquatic platform is the transition stage from a landlocked inter-dependant community to a truly autonomous island. Unlike in simulation â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the residents not only live and socialise but work in the complex, given roles involving the upkeep of the platform, farming, research, development and observation.

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Photo: U.S. Navy Built by The Electric Boat devision General Dynamics Corporation. The USS Phoenix (SSN-702) was extensively used during the population phase of the project, ferrying residence, supplies and some materials (bullets & beans). Its main function is to patrol the parameter of the complex ensuring the safety and comfort of its residents.

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3. Space Probe: The Orbita A self-contained society located in LEO (Low Earth orbit) is the home of perhaps the most envied, inspirational and respected humans of our age. Inhabitants have little need or want to be in contact with Earth, as everything needed to sustain a healthy and fulfilling life is to be found within the complex. During the early 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, three years into construction a steady population period commences, occupants are introduced and acclimatised to their new surroundings, settling into their homes. Operational in time for the advent of the new millenium, The Orbita begins its journey around the Earth serving as a life raft for humanity and its future endeavours. A modern celestial icon, one to rival the Sun & Moon, coasting triumphantly in the skies, a constant reminder of humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential.

AUTONOMOUS SPAC E PROBE TH E DE PARTMENT FO R THE MODERN UTIL IS ATION OF SPACE

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SPACE PROBE: THE ORBITA

Photo: NASA Langley Research Center

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The cost of constructing an interstellar spacecraft would be huge and for the society that made it there would be little payback, they would never see it again. So constructing such a machine will either be the greatest act of generosity in history or it will have to be funded by the travellers themselves.â&#x20AC;? Stephen Hawking 38

â&#x20AC;&#x153;From stone pusher 39 to priest, every worker would likely have recognized his or her role in continuing the life-and-death cycle of the pharaohs, and thereby in perpetuating the glory of Egypt.â&#x20AC;? National Geographic

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Escape Velocity

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Escape Velocity is the speed needed to 'break free' from a gravitational field without further propulsion. The term 'escape velocity' is a misnomer.

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Our discourse is focused in the struggle to escape from our own set ways of seeing, analyzing and understanding the world we live in and this permeates to all aspects and products of culture: aesthetics, science, politics, religion, industry, etc. Design is the underwriter of reality, it is what tells us what is real and what is not, what is hot or cold, long or short. Design therefore acts as mediator between the world and humans. We explore and analyze the world through design and we no longer have an experience of it that is not mediated by what design has taught us to be ‘true’ about it. Plato’s cave is still providing us the shadows of what we see, the shadows lit by the fire of culture. What if we moved the fire? Would the shadows change perspective? What if we were ready to do without the fire, even if it was for a few seconds? Would we be able to see past it or would we be subdued by the effects of phosphenes into what is called ‘prisoner's cinema’? Moreover, what if we were to do without the fire altogether and become accustomed to the dark and explore it with other senses? Design is then both the source of all our knowledge and pit of all our ignorance. Therefore we find it paramount for our work to keep trying to move the boundaries of what design practice is and could be. If as a byproduct of this activity we are contributing to generating new sets of realities, opening alternative routes, then...

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The mission: Never come back “Are we safe to talk here?” “No, let's go some place quiet so we can talk things over.” “We are grown up (enough) and leaving home.” The time has come for us to say goodbye, goodbye to all our inherited comforts and safety. An emotional, anticipated farewell is in motion, it now dawns that the countdown is irreversibly underway. With moist eyes, thank yous and hugs, we exchange heartfelt, hard to keep slogan'd promises of 'take care', 'keep safe' and 'look after'. Embarrassingly, we clutch with nervous palms and roaming fingers a lovingly wrapped parcel, contained within its thin shell are the last examples of our once accustomed comforts, an already decomposing symbol of generosity, affection and pride. We express our thanks as best we might, with messages that fall short of their meanings, meanings that are lost to our words, words that fight to be heard over the occasion's noisy significance.

"Saying Goodbye To Your Home" D. Rodgers

We are handed a final communique, enveloped & ceremonially sealed. We have no need to read it. We kiss them goodbye. They kiss us goodbye. “Are you about to change your mind?” we ask ourselves, “Not yet!” we reply. There will be no phone calls, no visits at weekends or during the holidays. “The Mission: will not be televised.” There will be no audience, no updates, no interstellar publications for our fans to subscribe to.

"The definitive guide to a self induced exodus, a first and last epic journey away from home." "Don Quixote for the space age." "Imagine the story of the prodigal son, but this time the son gets into a rocket and never returns."

1 out of 5 stars by RadioRose “I am very openminded when it comes to literature (I even read through Dead Planet without any objection) but I just hated this book! If it wasn’t required reading, I would have stopped on the fourth page! I think the writter could have done much better!”

We were your friends, we were once of you, but we turned a bridge, fired a rocket, blasted an allegory. We won't have to be popular when we've gone. We won't have to be popular when we don't get there. No one will know when to care, when we don't get there. We will be busy making timesakes of our references, references that will become originals, originals that are destroyed by our references. You will be busy doing the same, and not doing the same. “Don't wait up” we joke, “Oh, but we will” they lie. We wave goodbye. They wave (a little longer) goodbye. In time, they are likely to remark, “It's important for humanity that these people exist. They remind us it's possible to live in a different way.” and we shall say something identical of them. On our dash sits a picture of Mum (or Dad). On their mantle sits a picture of us.

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“Where can we be human?” “Here we can be human.” We have no need to read their last communique to us, as we're the ones who wrote it. It reads: “The mission: Never come back.”

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T h e O u t e r Space Treaty provides the b a s i c f r a mework on international space l a w , i n c l uding the following principles: * t h e exploration and use of outer s p a c e s h a ll be carried out for the b e n e f i t a nd in the interests of all c o u n t r i e s and shall be the province of a l l m a n k i nd; * o u t er space shall be free for e x p l o r a t i on and use by all States; * o u t er space is not subject to n a t i o n a l appropriation by claim of s o v e r e i g n ty, b y m e a n s of use or occupation, or by any o t h e r m e a ns; * S t a tes shall not place nuclear w e a p o n s o r other weapons of mass d e s t r u c t i on in orbit or on celestial b o d i e s o r station them in outer space in a n y o t h e r manner; * t h e Moon and other celestial b o d i e s s h all be used exclusively for p e a c e f u l purposes; * a s t ronauts shall be regarded as t h e e n v o y s of mankind; * S t a tes shall be responsible for n a t i o n a l space activities whether c a r r i e d o ut by governmental or nong o v e r n m e n tal bodies; * S t a tes shall be liable for damage c a u s e d b y their space objects; and * S t a tes shall avoid harmful c o n t a m i n a tion of space and c e l e s t i a l bodies. h t t p : / / w w w.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/ S p a c e L a w / outerspt.html

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"What better display of doublethinking/doing/existence than to be in the relentless pursuit of constructing a utopia. Each day adding to its noncompletion, and yet constantly remarking on the unprecedented progress being made. What other state would you wish to be in?"

Why we are (and not) leaving: 2+2=5, 5&3 or 'sour grapes' "Doublethink" George Orwell

“Two plus two equals five”– Winston Smith

“Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once” O’Brien

"I am sure they are sour"

"It is easy to despise what you cannot get" – Aesop’s The Fox and the Grapes

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Prior To The President's Statement: The President should telephone each of the widows-to-be. After The President's Statement, At The Point When Nasa Ends Communications With The Men: A clergyman should adopt the same procedure as a burial at sea, commending their souls to "the deepest of the deep," concluding with the Lord's Prayer.

These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice. These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding. They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown. In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man. In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood. Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts. For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In_Event_of_Moon_Disaster

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Tomorrow is the best place to be With our (Western) fascination of three part narratives told 'originally' in works such as 'The Odessey' and 'The Bible' that go from "an absolute original beginning, a redemptive middle and then a final and glorious end"6 is it any wonder that we find ourselves stuck with a fanatic relationship with progress? Is it really such a puzzler that it was a Human with 'Western-Christian tendencies who first stepped on the moon? "There once was a speedy who bragged about how fast he could run. Tired of hearing him boast, equally fast & boastful, another challenged him to a race. All the animals in the forest gathered to watch(…)"7 Through a most expensive and time consuming duel of one-upmanship with 'an-other', we would see whose technological and presumably therefore whose cultural chest could stick out furthest. History tells that it was a and not a chest that did so, but that race was won simply by a 'linear-thinker', for both 'sides' believed: "Yesterday was worse than today and tomorrow is the best place to be."8 In the end it came †down to who believed in‡ progress the most and how long they had previously done so. "[…]After that, always reminded himself, 'Don't brag about your lightning pace, drive and aspiration, for someone else with equal pace, drive and aspiration but greater technology and underwriters won the race!"7

Toward & Ideology – Michael Kranz "Are we there yet?"

6 Rick Roderick "The Self Under Siege" Foucault and the Disappearance of the Human 1993 7 Anon "The Hare and the Hare" 8 Unknown "The rhyme of the progressionists" 9 Leonidas Donskis, "End of Utopia", Ground Control, technology and utopia, European Union, 1997, p. 163 10 Shad, J. A., Jr., "Globilisation and Islamic Resurgence", Comparative Civilisations Review, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall 1988, p. 76 † American Capitalist ‡ Soviet (Russian) Communist

It is hard for me to imagine in the 60's a or walking on the Moon, not because of technological ability, finanical backing or historic accuracy but because of their traditional understanding of time and its consequential importance for developing an idea of progress. As is noted by Leonidas Donskis via Jeffrey A. Shadd, Jr. through Seyyed Hossien Nasr, utopian aspiration is tied directly to concepts of time. "Utopianism is most deeply concerned with two fundamental anthological dimensions–space and time.p. 157 As such, it reflects the most basic categories of the ontology and worldview. For this reason, as Jeffrey A. Shadd, Jr. notes, it is difficult to find similar ontological constituents of utopian consciousness in non-Western civilisations."9 'That rejects the Western ideology of progress is affirmed by Seyyed Hossien Nasr [who] notes that there is no word for utopia in Arabic or Persian because believe that paradise exists only in heaven. This is reflected in the conception of time which, according to Nasr, is not linear, as in the West, but based essentially on the cyclic rejuvenation of human history though the appearance of various prophets and ending finally in the eschatological events identified with the appearance of the Mahdi"…. "This", says Nasr, "re-establishes harmony and peace in the world through direct intervention and not through the secular changes brought about by means of mere human agency.'10

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We have designed: Clocks, Calendars, Watches, Cardiographs, GMT, Globes, Maps, GPS, Thermometers, Speedometers, Scales, Tuning Forks, Money, HRMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Light Meters, Anemometers, DB Meters, Alphabets, Languages... (TBC)

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Zeitgeber Zeitgeber (from German for "time giver," or "synchronizer") is any exogenous (external cue that synchronizes an organism's endogenous (internal) time-keeping system (clock) to the earth's 24-hour light/dark cycle. http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Zeitgeber

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"You're rocking on ready, you're in the burn position, you're ready to go. Then you look and there it is. It's 2001 type stuff, that old moon is just growing magnificently…" S. Roosa Command module pilot – Apollo 14

"Whether it's 2001, Star Wars or Star Trek, type on walls or on screens always looked like it was designed in early 1960s Torino Italy: square with rounded corners and the occasional oblique protrusion." Erik Spiekermann

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sausage |sôsij|

E: (Looking inside the Dictionary) I think you'll find he left `sausage' out of his Dictionary, Baldrick. (Shuts the Dictionary, but notices something on the first page) Oh, and `aardvark'...

ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old Northern French saussiche, from medieval Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus ‘salted’ (see sauce )

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noun a short cylindrical tube of minced pork, beef, or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled, boiled, or fried before eating. • a cylindrical tube of minced pork, beef, or other meat seasoned and cooked or preserved, sold mainly to be eaten cold in slices: smoked German sausage. • [usu. as adj. ] used in references to the characteristic cylindrical shape of sausages: mold into a sausage shape.

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adjective clearly stated or decided; not vague or doubtful: we had no definite plans. • clearly true or real; unambiguous: no definite proof has emerged. • [ predic. ] (of a person) certain or sure about something: you're very definite about that! • clear or undeniable (used for emphasis): video is a definite asset in the classroom. • having exact and discernible physical limits or form.

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noun a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not: a native of Montreal | an eighteen-year-old Brooklyn native. • a local inhabitant: New York in the summer was too hot even for the natives. • dated often offensive one of the original inhabitants of a country, esp. a nonwhite as regarded by European colonists or travelers. • an animal or plant indigenous to a place: the marigold is a native of southern Europe. adjective 1 associated with the country, region, or circumstances of a person's birth: he's a native New Yorker | her native country. • of the indigenous inhabitants of a place: a ceremonial native dance from Fiji. 2 (of a plant or animal) of indigenous origin or growth: pigs are native to China | America's native black bear. 3 (of a quality) belonging to a person's character from birth rather than acquired; innate: some last vestige of native wit prompted Guy to say nothing | a jealousy and rage native to him. • Computing designed for or built into a given system, esp. denoting the language associated with a given processor, computer, or compiler, and programs written in it. 4 (of a metal or other mineral) found in a pure or uncombined state.

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"Grubby space suits are a real good look"

"Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go--and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there."

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The Moon Monetization Programme Any gravity locked society built on a landmass, with understood notions of space and matter will inevitably be limited by our existing ideas of governance and order. Borders, divisions, definitions and understandings will be re-established far to quickly and easily, we will soon reconstruct a micro, re-hash of Earth much like Disney Land or a kitchen sales room, with all that hyper-reality.

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Corporations are all about landing, because they are earth bound structures, condemned to reproduce the architectures they once abandoned. Travelling in their spaceship-buildings, they scan the cosmos in search of riches. Their ships are packed with their workforces and armies, living in consented slavery, for the good of the company. 144

They have come together on some planet, referred to as ‘Tortuga’, where they gang up and assess their opposition. Sands Casino opens its connection shafts and very soon all tables are full with gamblers and good timers coming from as far as Lloyds of London, Shell or McDonalds. Disney’s Castle is the last one to arrive bringing some well needed nostalgia for their remodelled memories of earth. In the high spheres deals are being struck amongst the ‘Pirate Lords’, fuels, food, entertainment, materials, weapons, workers, children, money and drugs are exchanged, they call it business. This spectacle of wealth and power will remain a necessary ritual, to reinforce the status quo and ensure their own survival… for as long as no other species can threaten their oligarchy… or everybody abandons ship.

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"â&#x20AC;ŚSaved on 'wet matter'stored in the suitcases, tucked in , trapped in inclinations. All this might have to be confiscated, eroded, and distilled... and then we might be ready to inform and build culture once more."

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Knave of Spades Jack of Spades Jack of Trades – A jack of all trades (and master of none) Someone who can do several different kinds of role (but does not do any of them especially) and so crafts a being and not a job.

–apprentice of everything And master of nothing. Someone who participates in the construction of our shared image of ourselves, the world, the universe etc.

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"When you have instant access to all information simultaneously, you can't have subjectsâ&#x20AC;Ś You can't have jobs. You can only have roles. A job is a specialist activity with a fixed boundary, and in a resonant, simultaneous world of auditory space, you cannot retain these fixed boundaries. So, jobs are out. People prefer roleplaying." Marshall McLuhan (1971)

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"Today was no different than many, but similar in many respects to those that were not so different, as today I stirred another memory that I had not had for many years, and it revolves around another

I have forgotten to bring the of the many things

with me. A bright sugary lolly Pop that had been given to me by

my aunt, she had visited some city in desert like Las Vegas, but it wasn't that one. It had a blue logo on one side and some ribbons and text, I don't recall it so well as I didn't much look at that side, I felt it spoiled it. She had brought it back as

This only becomes stirred of mind now as many of the plant have taken to boil sugar into sweets, I think I will go ask some of them to make me a new one. Maybe they will be kind enough as to make me two, one for eating and one for putting on my shelf once more. I will try and get them to make it exactly like my old one, I might even include that ugly blue logo, just so I can choose not to look at it again."

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of that I am fairly whole certain. Mum or Dad had convinced me I shouldn't rip it open there and then, with what initial reasoning eludes me but it was successful. On subsequent days I remember remarks about how it was simply too arbitrary a time or day, or I had eaten far too much already, and so on. But I cannot pin the blame as to why it didn't get eaten entirely on my parents. I had grown fond of it on my shelf, I thought it amusing for many reasons, one that it collected dust on its plastic wrapper, I enjoyed wiping away the dust in the motion of the spiral to reveal the bright colours underneath once more. I never ate that lolly Pop. I don't even remember what actually happened to it or to my aunt for that matter, but I surely do wish I had it right

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I have taken to considering all of those forgotten things in a state of preservation of some kind, some most likely sit in grand halls whilst others on sideboards or in dinning cabinets, for remark and reflection.

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The ‘Freezer’ A time capsule, database, archive, safe, vault, tomb, trove, cache, specimen jar, repository, library, treasury, museum, material store, hoard, reservoir, pile, culmination, log, stash, accumulation, inventory, of Earth’s natural and cultural works.

These layers manipulate the cells’ contents to keep it in a perfect state of preservation termed ‘Dark-Static’.

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Preservation Cells 9 Independent preservation cells' are housed in the main unit. Maintenance and monitoring of contents is primarily controlled from the deck and hub, but additional tools, monitors and controls are found in the cells themselves as to maintain the cells independence from the rest of the Freezer.

Stabilising support beams surround the inner shell of the preservation cell.

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The more of us who departed from ourselves the more leaving we would achieve in our living. This was to be our only message, our leaving note: 'We are gone and so are you, we too now live differently.' We owed it to give them a chance of escape, not just to follow but to stay, and in their staying become leavers. Not for the creation of new or old, pure or deviant as some would inevitably speak, but simply different, someplace else human. Lists of shopping, reading and transactions, embedded genetics, the souvenirs of days shared and unshared, histories and photo-tropes. All this viscid residue, oblique clues of our minds trajectories, laid out on the programmer's slab awaiting recital. All of this or as much as we could, should have been disposed of. We had feared for the compilation of some canon, a 'guide to', 'only' or 'definitive' or worse a religion. Like an asinine Q&A compiled with the premise 'to fill up', to crowd, to content any data sacks left hollow, it would mock my mode by association, it would violently fill my absence.

All this noisy pseudo-being would compromise any project we had hoped to construct.

We told not enough silence in that first leaving. We absorbed not enough of ourselves, we left a mark and not a ghost in your sands. It was doomed at that time because humans still birthed children and ideas into realms that were not theirs to be in. Humans still maintained meanings as if they were lives. This had not been an initial imperative of our material conquests and creations but instantaneously became coupled so. It simply was no longer to preserve a language so that our works could be understood and therefore act as a form of progeny, it was a defect and disease demanded by our endeavours.

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Systems of trade, of law, of vanity, of ego, of silent sinister materials, strewn on our battle fields, in our homes and under our continents, and even the very systems of your birth and death demanded the formation of an imperative comprehension: 'The basics', which incessantly spiralled into 'The complexes' and the 'meta complexes'. A fatal crash course in why any essence, instinct and rationality that might have onced played out was robbed by the only existence left available.

If there was to be a human in that place we had risen to a 'native status', we needed to ensure we continued to understand what we had done, what we had left, and so we sought to devise a preservable, a faxable self.

A 'self', tooled up with a diseased but consistent cognition, so that we might 'say sorry through the ages and hope to mean it. The leak is in the language'. A card is in the post. Is this still your address? Do you have a letter box? This time will be different. I will leave this place as well, like you. You must try to wherever you are, and anything left by chance should not be yours. No signatures, no names, no rights or claims to a fabbed and fading before-ness. "Better of Before" "Just because it's the best thing you've ever done, doesn't mean you should go writing your name on it." "Hand it to yourself. Hand it in. You can't handle this. Hold my hand. Give me your hand. Hands up. Hand it over."

"Esta Revolucion es Eterna" (this revolution is eternal) "Ships not Shelters"

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a rocket blasting off -- forever.

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He paused to feed more papers to the fire. ‘Now we’re alone. We and a handful of others who’ll land in a few days. Enough to start over. Enough to turn away from it all back on Earth and strike out on a new line—‘ 170

The fire leaped up to emphasize his talking. And then all the papers were gone except one. All the laws and beliefs of Earth were burnt into a small, hot ashes, which soon would be carried off in a wind. Timothy looked at the last thing that Dad tossed in the fire. It was a map of the World, and it wrinkled and distorted itself hotly and went – flimpf – and was gone like a warm, black butterfly. Timothy turned away. ‘Now I am going to show you the Martians’, said Dad. ‘Come on, all of you. Here, Alice.’ He took her hand. (…) The night came down around them, and there were stars. But Timothy couldn’t find Earth. It had already set. That was something to think about. (…) ‘I’ve always wanted to see a Martian,’ said Michael. ‘Where are they, Dad? You promised.’ ‘There they are,’ said Dad, and he shifted Michael on his shoulder and pointed straight down.The Martians were there. Timothy began to shiver. The Martians were there – in the canal – reflected in the water. Timothy and Michael and Robert and Mom and Dad. The Martians stared back at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water… Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury. p. 80 1 NU

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