Great organization, met Coolidge I think in Utah, not quite remembering.
People don't realize that the thin several-millimeter crust of the
'desert' is an integral part of the biome; footprints destroy everything.
You have to be tuned to these things - everything reverberates, resonates
across and through organisms, minerals, etc. -
- Alan
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, John Hopkins wrote:
Hei Alan -
Where are you located exactly? I'm interested in the intrusions you talk
about.
I'm based in Prescott, Arizona, a small town at 6000' in the central
highlands
of the state. Politically it's conservative (very!), there are a lot of
veterans
here as there is a VA hospital, lots of conservative retirees. Few
minorities. But, easy access to the Grand Canyon and many other more subtle
but very classic western landscapes and ecosystems.
One of the reasons I became disillusioned with Baudrillard had to do with
his
take on the American wilderness, as if the wild, instead of the grace of
life-forms in somewhat balance, was just lawless -
I don't know, but I suspect that Baudrillard never walked (alone) in these
landscapes or spent much time, had no familiarity with them, their wide
variations, rich organismic life (despite the massive human interruptions!
and quite exotic ('empty' upon first look)...
I'd point to the Center for Land Use Interpretation (http://clui.org) for
some absolutely superb research and creative work surrounding the military
use of western land (among some other fine research interests). Matt
Coolidge, one of the principles there has on-the-ground experience around
this, along with the histories.
I did a residency with them in Wendover, UT/NV a few years back, in their
compound that sits 50 yards from the Enola Gay hangar at the former Army
Airbase right on the Bonneville Salt Flat ... (documentation
http://tinyurl.com/krnj8ru) -- from that location within, say, 300 miles,
there are huge numbers of 'secret' military-industrial installations
including the new NSA data center, nerve-agent research/testing facilities,
and on and on...
It's a strange phenomena, the proliferation of sites starting in WWII and
continuing extensively into the Cold War, Space Race, nuclear weapon
development, and on and on.
so it goes...
jh
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