Here we develop the complementarity of landscapes and zones, as the basic elements of a materialist frame for mapping patterns of activist practice.
The intro to the weave - The foprop weave - spoke of affiliating and resonating.
**Affiliating . .** refers to connections between patterns in one or other of three landscapes of material organisation:
- §1 ** Material landscape** - Engaging and transforming the de facto material organisation of material means of subsistence and wellbeing, and their provision and access.
- §2 **Cultural landscape** - Cultivating and mobilising conscious, intentional knowing and capability (‘organising’), in the (re)production of cultural and economic formations; and
- §3 **Aesthetic landscape** - Skilful, informed, intentional responding to preconsciously-arisen perception and intention, identification and affiliation, emotional force and aesthetic impulse, in the person and in the collective.
>NOTE: Here and throughout foprop, § is pronounced 'landscape'.
The three landscapes are described further here Making a living economy, in three landscapes Weft - Three landscapes of material existence In-here and out-there. Structure & agency
All three landscapes are **material**. But each implies quite distinct modes of perception and of skilled engagement with that kind of material organisation, and each landscape comprises **forces of production** of quite distinct kinds - material, cultural, affiliative - each under their own characteristic **relations of production**.
The material **location** of an activist and their practices (and the practices of the activist formations in which they contribute), within the totality of FoPs, is mapped via the threefold §landscapes perspective.
**Resonating . .** refers to an activist’s sense of their situation: their own participation and intention, their own present scope for contribution, and the intrinsic connections - in their own present experience, memory and vision - between what arises and passes in four zones of proximity . .
- ¿1** In-here** - ¿2 **Here** - ¿3 **We** - ¿4 **Region** >NOTE: Here and throughout foprop, ¿ is pronounced 'zone'.
The four zones are described further here Warp - Four zones of proximity and reach
Each zone has a different kind of ‘reach’ for the participant, and a particular quality and depth of movement in time. The four zones are a way of being specific about the **life-situation(s)** of the activist, and the courses of action and scale and scope of formations in which they may engage.