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Please share notes, questions, thoughts and comments for presentations on the Photon Track at the Unconference.  What is sticking with you? What are some quotes you want to highlight or resources you want to share? Please feel free to leave your name/website or remain anonymous!

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Maybe we can work with Time and silence to reorganize our worlds in a way offering renewed temporalities conceptually, materially, metaphorically, spatially to destabilize normative time. - The BlkRobot Project

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The secret is the timing of an attack that unsettles colonial time, market time, linear time without offering renewed conditions for their weapons, forever.

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I really liked what Rasheedah Phillips said about Harriet Tubman opening up portals with/by wading in the water. It would be really cool to explore this more. If anyone is interested, maybe we could start off by generating questions? For example, where could we open up these time portals? Can it be in-person and on-online, this protocol or ritual? Where or who might these portals lead to? Is wading in the water an ancestral, temporal technology? What are other ways Black/African/Afro Diasporic peoples waded in the water? Also interested in how songs, sound, voice and music could be connected to this. It's only Day 1!!! - Simone Johnson

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How can sound and light travel through the atmosphere and clouds to repair the effects of global warming.

Can there be something like a “Rain Dance”, “Planet Healing Symphonic Composition and Lightshows” created to harmonize the atmosphere through the use of traveling light and traveling sound created by artists?

The presentation was very exciting. I missed some of it to take a business phone call.

Brilliant Unconference.

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Our ancestors knew how the hegemony works. 

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Our ancestors knew how the hegemony works. 

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Recent Presentation with Dr. Nelson. Several descendants were present. 150+ attendees.

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Recent Presentation with Dr. Nelson. Several descendants were present. 150+ attendees.

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Inequitable ability to participate in the conference today across space and time due to the continued impact of neo-colonial rule in west Africa

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Inequitable ability to participate in the conference today across space and time due to the continued impact of neo-colonial rule in west Africa

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I am here in Cape Coast, Ghana, four hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time in America which is taking into account daylight savings time.  By far, the biggest expense here is DATA which you cannot get in unlimited amounts with a monthly payment. It is pre-paid.  Even with that, the networks can't handle traffic sufficiently.  I have been constantly met with buffering and internet disconnection through the entire first day.  I believe I was able to listen to about 15%, and I attended the full day. Please post clear instructions explaining how to access the recordings from Friday and Saturday.

I hope that in the future you think about communities that don't have the privilege of resources such as high speed connectivity and unlimited quantities of data.  It would have helped greatly to have the OPTION of "voice only" to lower the band width required to attend.  Even a call in number such as Zoom offers as that is a more stable connection and the cost is within my control to manage. Thanks

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Opening Plenary: Rasheedah Phillips

“[Here to] Discuss alternative ways of coordinating our lives” Intro MC  (Karin K.)

2 conversation tracks

Proton track-Ideas travel: Back and forth

Light wave track

Rasheedah Phillips

“This is an experiment” ½ hour before and after each workshop

Agreements

-expect non resolution

(No answer to time)

-speak you truth

-space priority of indigenous/ all isms and black and women and diff bales, etc, lgbtqia

-respect others temporality and our own/ non traditional space/ walk in and out as needed / take breaks

Dr. Andrea Harris will be playing a video (Not in program)

Camae Ayewa reads,

“We must remember our African ancestors who left so much richness in the soil…the blood sweat and tears that our ancestors gave to the land…the unjust laws that continue to…dehumanize our lives. We will worship. We will dance…today and tomorrow.”

Dr. Danielle Purifoy, Dead Line?: On slowing down in Black “spacetime”

“Plantation is an ongoing locust of violence and death.” Katherine McKendrix? (Clarify name)

“The talk about…how we lived and survived as Black folks, how the White folks treated us.” (Bell Hooks)

“Oh the feeling of safety, of arrival…” A paradox that there is safety “between the home place and the white space” (who’s voice?)

Catherine Coleman Flowers, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice

-“Literal conversion” of White space into Black space

Black families could purchase former slave plantations

“ Flowers demonstrates nonlinearity of Black space time” They returned to a space of disorientation and displacement to create home on their own terms, in their own time “setting a firm boundary around the home space”

Dead* line: the latest time by which something can be completed /(Archaic/ historical definition) A space of enclosure, a prison. If prisoners crossed that boundary, they could be shot.

Speakers used Tamina, Tx as space for study, it’s shrinking by way of White power. Defining this place as a dead *line, space of disconnection. “Established infrastructures of care, community/ institution building since 1836” The citizens there have created a safe space boundary around the town even without certain basic necessities like well maintained water ways, etc.

“A space for eternity, where they die, where they are buried, where their legacies continue”

*****Princeville, NC subject to constant catastrophic flooding, first incorporated Black municipality in the US

Started as plantation state and over taken by Union army. Compromise after war: Planters sold land to Turner Prince originally named “Freedom Hill”

Flooded at least 8times wholly since conception but here (we, Black folks) stay and build and rebuild.

Deadline is the boundary of the flood plane. The state tries to take land after every flooding but the citizens refuse to relinquish it.

Pullman, Michigan where speaker’s family (matriarchs) set a deadline for their family who migrated from Memphis to Detroit. “They served on plantation time for most of their lives… but wanted to set a different standard of time for us.” They did this by moving from Detroit to Pullman and began to “teach us to develop relationship to land without being on plantation time.”

Asia Dorsey, Bending SpaceTime with Botanicals

-“Singing is a technology that gives us access to being and performing in a new space”

-“physically a social technology to create a group field, coherence…plants help us to do this”

Focusing on lemon balm and how it can change time

Experimental space

“The nature of time is rooted in our body…time cannot exist without us as observer…our physical bodies are in relation to all bodies around us including those of plants”

“Honor the sacred ‘no’ ”

When we honor the “sacred no” we enrich others’ experiences as well as our own

We can choose to be observer and opt out of participation but we are still participant by default

“Obliterate colonial time” when we share with one another

“The perceived time is the actual time”

“Diversity of time springs out as we experience the byproduct of relationship”

“Connection is an accelerator”

“To emphasize relationship, I don’t mix herbs together…I want to know each herb as a person…this is what the people’s medicine is all about…tell the plant’s story and our story at the same time.” Asia D.

Word of mouth and we rely on each other to learn plants

Asia D. partners w/ urban farms to grow plant medicine (lemon balm, elderberry, mullen, etc)

Cherokee name for Lemon Balm (Wa du li si)

“No decolonization, I cannot extract the white from my bloodlines” lemon balm is a European plant but Cherokee people named it to work with it. The weeds travel to undue to harm that the colonizers cause (paraphrasing of Asia D.)

“Plants have a specific relation to space/time…they use space and time to be of service and access us…they make themselves available.” “Can access the multiplicity of timelines to be in a multiplicity of places.”

[Asia shared an anecdote about a friend whose environment she analyzed and found a “pregnancy garden” of plants. She informed her friend of this, they laughed it off and friend became pregnant 3 weeks later but had a troubled pregnancy and didn’t use the plant medicine. The plants manifested there to help but unfortunately were not usd for their purpose.]

“Reading the lawn can save lives.” Asia D.

“The temporal nature of people is determined by their anxiety.” Simon R./ Pierre Alexander

“People who experience anxiety can often show up in spaces and be perceived as narcissists because they are always in their head, thinking about themselves.”

“Plants are a chart, a cartography of how the body works” Asia D

“Lemon balm pushes out the time horizon and enables the flow state”

Flow: being so happily inside an activity that time contracts and expands (paraphrase)

City push us towards standardized time but nature is a place that we can go to deviate from this (paraphrase)

“The present is a relationship to the herb itself.”

V. Mitch McEwen, Cloud Time

”discuss possibility of shifting from coordinate space to coordinate temperature”

“I feel cloudy to myself”

Math of cloud is the science of individuation “blackness is a universal machine”

Cloud science is a science of collectivity

“Population of individuals are all apart of this cycle of water” “each individual cloud is chaotic but the best way to describe it is to describe their behavior collectively”

Audio clip where a Black man discusses multilayers of time as he is experiencing it

Uijiji Williams, Occupying Vacancy: Looking at Detroit’s Grassroot Activation of Vacant Land and Structures

Jima Studio from Ujima (collective work and responsibility)

What does it mean for Detroit to reclaim land that has been stolen?

“There is a tale of  two Detroits. 1 that is affluent. 1 that is white. Middle place is Black excellence/affluence but the other Detroit…2 blocks from my house…seems sucked dry.”

See Gil Scott-Heron, 1977 from “We almost lost Detroit”

What does Detroit look like in the future?

“Space is the Place” Sun RA says, Black folks aren’t real, we’re a myth because we aren’t acknowledged by the law.

“Working definition of Black space is a place where the construct of racialized oppression is not existent.”

Speaker works to reimagine demoralized and desolate spaces in Detroit. Serves to fill the space in a way that is helpful to the specific community and includes spaces for play and other necessities that are not currently present there in the physical realm.

Speaker looks upon a space and asks, “How can this become an inviting space?”

“A grid is efficiency and living any other way is not.” but Black folks come from ciphers like an opposite to this (paraphrase)

Black space happens in its own speed and time. “Doesn’t rely on the normative structure of efficiency.”

“Even though they are vacant, they have always been vacant.”

“A lot of their vision is a reflection of their memory” “a lot of their memory is a reflection of their vision”

Andrea Robert’s

Prentice’s Joy (Movie)

Modern-day tour of rent houses for black travelers 1930s-60s where Black folks could safely lodge and travel during prominent Jim Crow Era. Interview with Black man who facilitates tours and maintains this property (perhaps owns it?)

Kendra Krueger, Timecasting with Entropy & Lasers

“Indigenous ways of knowing are from these natural patterns that exist.”

“We live in a very fractal universe…”

“Intuitive technology [is] the original pattern”

“Any technology is a way of moving, transforming matter”

“Energy and matter can be transferred back and forth”

“A pattern is a replicated memory transported through time.”

-patterns

-physics

-archetypes

-thermodynamics

“Patterns in nature exist as archetypes and characters and we can utilize them”

Can we explain and explore the internal and external world together? Science and nature and art, etc (multidisciplinary)

Branch sys distribute resources from center in out. Fragility in the sys when branches are cut, because sources can no longer leave the center, system becomes decentralized

Different structures necessitate different structures

“So much breaks down into order v disorder”

“Intoxicated by the untamable…always wanted to be messy” entropy

“”Me and my entropy” “recast my identity in the science of entropy”

“Entropy is the flow of nature to create new options…”

Boltzman’s Contaant is a fundamental constant in nature.

“Omega represents multiplicity. How many constants can exist in a situation? Only one direction that mixture, that entropy goes. Cannot return to what it was before. We perceive time through change.”

“It’s dangerous in the unknown…it’s undifferentiated…so much you can lose your mind on.”

“Gotta get solid on what’s your fundamental frequency then you can open up your boundaries”

Change is both linear and nonlinear steady and instantaneous (paraphrased)

“How much work do we have to do and how much energy do we need to make it happen?”

“Slowing time changes our relationship to power” Asia D.

Reductionism “if we can break it down into smaller pieces then we can understand it and control it”

“Must go into a process of disconnection to chose whether we want to connect or not”

Stochastic Resonance?

Systems are rituals

Systems are patterns stacked atop one another

We created a lazor by way of sound by starting with a Bassline and introducing different elements or both order and chaos over time

“Achieved lazor focus moment when we vibrated at the same frequency”

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Thank you for this Black Space.

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Please share notes, questions, thoughts and comments for presentations on the Photon Track at the Unconference.  What is sticking with you? What are some quotes you want to highlight or resources you want to share? Please feel free to leave your name/website or remain anonymous!