Things to come

 

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Billedmanipulation: Google Deep Dream.

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Pythia

 

Præstinden i Delfi. Af John Maler Collier (1850-1934).

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Teknoshamanisme: Samarbejde med Pataxó-indianerne

 

En vigtig del af festivalen for teknoshamanisme (som jeg tidligere har dækket bl.a. her, her og her) var samarbejdet med de lokale Pataxó-indianere.

Jeg har ikke energi til at skrive det hele en gang til, så jeg vil begynde med at citere, hvad jeg skrev om pataxóerne på min engelsksprogede blog:

The Pataxó is an indigenous people of about 12,000 people who live in the extreme south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, mainly in the area between Porto Seguro and Caraíva. Traditionally, the Pataxó have lived near Monte Pascoal, in the aldeia or settlement (or “village”) called Barra Velha. In 1951, they suffered a devastating massacre at the hands of the Brazilian military police, who basically burned down the settlement and dispersed the Pataxó, who for many years hereafter often had to be discreet about their heritage. In the 1980′s and 90′s the Pataxó started fighting for their lands and succesfully reclaimed several of their old settlements, among them the Aldeia Velha located in Arraial d’Ajuda and the area around Monte Pascoal near Caraíva. A retelling of the struggle of the Pataxó for their lands can be found here (in Portuguese).

Today, the Pataxó live in 29 aldeias mainly located in the area between Monte Pascoal and Porto Seguro. Their main source of income is agriculture and tradional craftmanship, and though they have made great advances, their claim to their lands is by no means secure. The area is home to vast financial interests in agrobusiness, who would love to be able to clear what remains of the Atlantic rain forest and plant high-yielding eucalyptus everywhere, and their relationship with the rest of society is still precarious, as craftmanship and tourism are a somewhat insecure financial foundation.

After the massacre, the Pataxó might have opted to simply integrate into Brazilian society, abandon their culture and adopt a more assimilated lifestyle as workers and farm hands. But many of them also recognize that if they fail to conserve their culture, they will disappear and become nothing more than a few thousand urban and rural poor – while if the do conserve their culture and remember who they are, they may yet conserve an incredibly rich historical and cultural heritage.

The collaboration between the Pataxó and the participants in the festival was natural because the concept of technoshamanism is, as has been discussed, all about reconnecting with ancestral knowledge and a connection to nature. In fact, one of the reasons for selecting Arraial d’Ajuda as the location of the festival was that several of the activists behind the festival already had good relations with the Pataxó. One of those people is Regis “Bailux”, who lives in Arraial and founded the hacklab called “Bailux”. At the festival’s opening (pictured above) Regis explained how his life changed completely ten years ago, when he discovered free software. His passion for free software led him to create Bailux with weekly meetings around free software, and for years he has been working to bring free software and free technology to the Pataxó to enable them to connect to the new digital world. For the Pataxó, collaboration with and solidarity from social movements as well as from other independent people are important, as they may yet need all the support they can get in the struggle for their culture and their land.

As a European and a person from a very different culture, I was honoured to be invited as a friend and a guest of these wonderful people.

Det sidste vil jeg gerne have lov til at gentage, det var en glæde og en ære at få lov til at møde disse mennesker som en gæst og en ven. Herunder nogle udvalgte billeder fra denne del af festivalen.

Landsbyens pajé (medicinkvinde) eller shaman:

Scener fra et bryllup og sportsstævne i Aldeia Velha den 29. april 2014:

 

Forskellige billeder fra landsbyen Aldeia Velha:

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Teknoshamanisme: Sælsomme ritualer

 
Der deltog mange kunstnere og teaterfolk i den ikke længere så nyligt overståede festival for teknoshamanisme, og dette førte sammen med festivalens tema til en lang række fascinerende værker, performances og happenings. Jeg vil herunder forsøge at give et indtryk af blot nogle få af disse initiativer, hvoraf jeg i parantes bemærket slet ikke nåede at se dem alle under selve begivenheden.

Samtidig er dette det første af en række indlæg, hvor jeg vil forsøge at systematisere de mange fascinerende billeder, der blev taget i løbet af festivalen, og præsentere dem tematisk her på siden. Bemærk dog, at der overhovedet ikke er plads til alle relevante billeder i hverken dette eller de følgende indlæg.














Link: Tecnoxamanismo på Flickr.

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Ubuntu gange tre

 


Så smukt kan det se ud, når man kører to forskellige Ubuntu-systemer i virtuelle maskiner inde i en større (ikke-virtuel) Ubuntu-maskine og bruger forskellige baggrundsbilleder, så maskinerne er lettere at kende fra hinanden.

De to virtuelle maskiner kører BibOS, et særligt Ubuntu-system, der forhåbentlig snart skal leveres til flere biblioteker i Danmark. Den store er bare min udviklingsmaskine.

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Naraka, det hinduistiske helvede

 


Den centrale figur på tronen er dødsguden Yama. Jeg forestiller mig, at de mange djævle med horn er udtryk for kristen påvirkning (hvis du ved noget om dette, er du velkommen til at skrive en kommentar om det). Selve ideen om en sådan underverden går dog tilbage til længe før kristendommens opståen.

Kilde: Wikimedia Commons.

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Dansk kultur anno 1946

 

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Elverfolk på marken

 

Ängsälvor, af Nils Blommér (1816-1853).

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Trækstien, Langå til Randers

 














Trækstien er en sti langs den rute, hvor pramdragerne i sin tid trak deres last. Pramfarten på Gudenåen overlevede fra det 15. århundrede indtil anden halvdel af det 19. århundrede, hvor det med opførelsen af jernbanen endelig blev nemmere at transportere gods over land.

I dag er det omkring 100 år siden, pramfarten på Gudenåen havde nogen økonomisk betydning. Til gengæld går Trækstien stadig gennem noget af Danmarks flotteste natur, og det er muligt at følge den hele vejen fra Randers til Silkeborg, hvis man har kræfter til at gå alle 75 kilometer.

Man kan selvfølgelig også nøjes med mindre strækninger, som her mellem Randers og Langå.

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Maja

 

Af Fransisco de Goya (1746-1828).

Hvad sker der, når du fører musen hen over? Klik for at se billedet i høj opløsning.

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