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Comment on ‘In-the-Last-Humanity’: François Laruelle @ CSM by Angela

Angela — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:26:07 +0000

Thanks for this!

Comment on ‘In-the-Last-Humanity’: François Laruelle @ CSM by Telos Press

Telos Press — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:01:12 +0000

Matthew Paskins
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Michael Marder is speaking on “Plant Thinking: a Philosophical Toolkit” at UCL! Wednesday May 8th,5-6.30, Roberts Building 106. All welcome.

Comment on Anthropocene: The Making Of by This is not the Anthropocene | Rain on Arrakis

This is not the Anthropocene | Rain on Arrakis — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:04:23 +0000

[...] why the detour around a post-political concept like species being? I’m deeply suspicious (I’m not alone). Maybe I’m wrong and the critical re-reading and re-writing the Anthropocene can be as [...]

Comment on Anthropocene: The Making Of by Angela

Angela — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:01:56 +0000

Hi Iben,
You have probably come across the Rioji Ikeda piece: http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=14026
And this poem: http://www.redividerjournal.org/the-superposition-of-the-atom/
It depends on what aspect of superposition you are interested in. Of course, there is superposition in geology, but it means something quite different from superposition in quantum physics. Are you more interested in the limitation of possibility e.g. as in Schroedinger’s Cat, double slit experiment; in superposition and scale; or more in the different meanings of ‘superposition’ in different contexts? You may also want to get in touch with the Arts Catalyst or some of the artists on the MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins. Quite a few of them are working on quantum mechanics. The second year’s have their research interests up here: http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/courses/ma-art-and-science/student-research-profiles/ They might be able to help you. Will let you know if I come across anything.
Good luck!
Angela

Comment on Anthropocene: The Making Of by Iben Elmström

Iben Elmström — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:19:37 +0000

Hi,

I am a MFA curating student at goldsmiths and i am doing research in the idea of super-postion. This is, as you probably know, use in quantum physics to describe how atoms can change their behavior when being observed. I have found some examples of work, but is still looking , maybe you have some suggestions as you seem to have research some artists.
Or maybe there is a similar reaction in geology ? With cells or animals or something ? Just if you have something ?

Best Iben

Comment on Communicating climate change and its invisible effects: Sea Butterflies podcast by aridanielshapiro

aridanielshapiro — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:32:02 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Dr. Last! If your audience is interested in checking out our whole series “One Species at a Time” where each episode is a tribute to a different creature on this planet, check out: education.eol.org/podcast

Yours,
ari daniel shapiro
http://www.aridanielshapiro.com

Comment on Geography and Art – Notes on the RGS/IBG conference 2011 by Mireille Beautiful

Mireille Beautiful — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:36:54 +0000

I like the optimism of your last sentence, but why would those in power have anything to fear from art, if those producing it have surrendered the ‘threatening’ power of their own medium to the last cycle in the pursuit of timeless beauty and the sublime? I mean, no one feared gunpowder until it stopped only serving pyrotechnic spectacles..

Comment on Interactions around Ai WeiWei’s Sunflower Seeds by cityperson

cityperson — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:44:23 +0000

I saw this exhibit back in November, and was disappointed to find the seeds off limits. I couldn’t wait to walk on them, and even pop one or two into my pocket. Something about the prohibition felt “off,” as though the artist’s intention was being compromised by museum officials’ sense of the “worth” of these items.

As soon as I found I could not touch the seeds I was sad. I thought: so what if people take them?! Things in museums are usually off limits, the property of richer and more powerful institutions than most of us. The opportunity to actually touch something, made by regular people, in a fancy museum seemed so special!

I think your response is very thoughtful, and I hope you did go back to record a message for the artist.

–adeola

Comment on Ruins of the far future by Angela

Angela — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:51:58 +0000

The book sounds fascinating – will check it out! Another atomic opera – interesting! There is also ‘Doctor Atomic’ by John Adams & the piece ‘Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima’ by Krzysztof Penderecki.

Comment on Ruins of the far future by nigel

nigel — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:40:01 +0000

Peter van Wyck’s Signs of Danger: Waste Trauma and Nuclear Threat (2005) is a great account of the challenge of leaving beyind a sign to warn future folk about our radioactive excreta. He’s got a new book called Highway of the Atom, which tells the story of the sourcing of the uranium used in the Hiroshima- Nagasaki bombs from a mine in the far north of Canada. I havent read it yet, but apparently the indigenous people from near the mine site eventually went to Japan to make their peace with the victims of the bomb. I also heard a rumour that this story might be being turned into an opera….!