Nouvelle Science

The Secret of Hanging Rock

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:42:37 +0200

Like many other landmarks in Australia, Hanging Rock had been a sacred ceremonial site for Aboriginals, and thus it carried with it a theme of mysticism. Australian author Joan Lindsay was inspired by the place, and particularly by the juxtaposition of ancient spiritualism and modern colonial immigrants. Using this theme, she invented and wrote a novel, in only a single month, in which sophisticated upper class Europeans became trapped in a fanciful world in which they were, both literally and metaphorically, swallowed up by the ancient Earth. Yes, Picnic at Hanging Rock and the story that it tells are now, and have been ever since they were written, complete fiction. Our task today is to understand how and why a fictional story came to be perceived as fact.

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LO INVISIBLE Y LA INCERTIDUMBRE

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:26:24 +0200

LO INVISIBLE Y LA INCERTIDUMBRE

Video

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:40:14 +0200

laurenkreid: Der Siebente Kontinent (The Seventh...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:35:14 +0200

laurenkreid:

Der Siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent)

Michael Haneke 1989

The omnipotence of chaos

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:07:23 +0100

“No estaba escrito que la ecología fuera un partido”

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:32:47 +0100

La especie humana se las apañará. Nadie piensa que vaya a desaparecer, ¿pero la civilización? No se sabe lo que es una Tierra a seis u ocho grados, no lo hemos conocido. Hay que remontarse centenares de millones de años. El problema no se abordaba con la misma urgencia cuando escribí el libro en 1999, se hablaba aún de las generaciones futuras. Ahora hablamos de nuestros hijos. No hay una sola empresa que haga un cálculo más allá de 2050, es el horizonte más corto que ha habido nunca. La mutación de la historia es increíblemente rápida. Ahora se trata de acontecimientos naturales, mucho más rápidos que los humanos. Es inimaginable para la gente formada en el siglo XX, una novedad total.

Bruno Latour en El País.

THE SINKHOLES // a film by Antoine Barraud

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:20:00 +0100

THE SINKHOLES // a film by Antoine Barraud

Video

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:02:42 +0100

Sommnium

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:01:29 +0100

Somnium (Latin for “The Dream”) is a fantasy written between 1620 and 1630, in Latin, by Johannes Kepler. In the narrative, a student of TychoBrahe is transported to the Moon by occult forces. It presents a detailed imaginative description of how the earth might look when viewed from the moon, and is considered the first serious scientific treatise on lunar astronomy.

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As a result, metaphysical problems are revealed always to have been genuine problems, since they do...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:08:04 +0100

As a result, metaphysical problems are revealed always to have been genuine problems, since they do admit of a solution. But their resolution depends on one precise and highly constraining condition- that we begin to understand that in reply to those metaphysical questions that ask why the world is thus and not otherwise, the response “for no reason” is a genuine answer. Instead of laughing or smiling at questions like “Where de we come from?”, “Why do we exist?, we should ponder instead the remarkable fact that the replies “From nothing” really are answers, thereby realizing that these really were questions- and excellent ones at that. There is no longer a mystery, not because there is no longer a problem, but because there is no longer a reason.

Quentin Meillasoux, After finitude, An essay on the Necessity of contingency.

“Through the intuition of the meaningless sign, I leave the physical world, where everything seems...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:31:37 +0100

“Through the intuition of the meaningless sign, I leave the physical world, where everything seems to have a cause, to penetrate the pure semiotic world – where nothing has a reason to be, where nothing has meaning – and where everything, in consequence, breathes eternity.”

- Quentin Meillassoux, Berlin Lecture

Una nueva cámara astronómica investiga la energía oscura El proyecto DECam, con participación española, rastreará desde Chile 300 millones de galaxias, 100.000 cúmulos de galaxias y 4.000 supernovas

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:56:56 +0200

Los grandes mapas celestes que se obtendrán “dibujan también la historia del cosmos, como una auténtica máquina del tiempo”, señala Enrique Gaztañaga, investigador del CSIC en el ICE. “Podremos comparar el ritmo y la historia de la expansión del universo con el ritmo de crecimiento de sus estructuras, lo que nos permitirá confirmar o refutar el modelo que tenemos sobre el origen del universo y sus leyes fundamentales”, apunta este científico.

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Into the Cosmos

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:12:23 +0200

Into the Cosmos

“Novela de aventuras alpinas no euclidianas y simbólicamente...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:52:07 +0200

“Novela de aventuras alpinas no euclidianas y simbólicamente auténticas”

Pierre Sogol, un estrafalario personaje con amplios conocimientos científicos, reúne un día en su casa a un conjunto de personas de lo más heterogéneas; su propósito es preparar un viaje en barco para buscar una misteriosa montaña inaccesible, cuya materia tiene la curiosa propiedad, según dice, de curvar el espacio que lo rodea; de tal manera, que toda la región en donde se halla esta montaña (que denominan el Monte Análogo), se encuentra encerrada en la cáscara invisible de este espacio curvo en el cual hay un mundo paralelo. La expedición consistirá en cruzar a esa otra dimensión y la novela en explicarnos todo aquello que ven estos personajes durante su viaje. Daumal, que pone a su libro el subtítulo de “aventuras alpinas no euclidianas y simbólicamente auténticas”, logra crear así una obra de carácter único, inspirada en fuentes tan poco frecuentadas en la literatura como son los Vedas, Platón, René Guenon y G. Gurdjieff.
Debido a una aguda tuberculosis, la muerte sorprendió a Daumal en medio de una frase de la novela; circunstancia que antes de haber limitado este relato, ha contribuido a realzar el halo imaginario que siempre tienen todas las grandes obras inacabadas. Pero, gracias a las notas aclaratorias de sus editores franceses de 1952 –y al epílogo de Clara Janés– no nos quedamos en suspenso, y acce-demos tanto al plan literario de la novela como al perfil de su autor.
Con “El Monte Análogo”, Daumal logró hacer con la Metafísica lo que Julio Verne había logrado con la Física.

El monte análogo

Dimensiones y Universos Paralelos

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:49:34 +0200

Dimensiones y Universos Paralelos

Strata, a Geophotographic Fiction

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:08:36 +0200

Strata, a Geophotographic Fiction

Distancing effect

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:50:00 +0200

The distancing effect is achieved by the way the “artist never acts as if there were a fourth wall besides the three surrounding him […] The audience can no longer have the illusion of being the unseen spectator at an event which is really taking place.” The use of direct audience-address is one way of disrupting stage illusion and generating the distancing effect. In performance, as the performer “observes himself,” his objective is “to appear strange and even surprising to the audience. He achieves this by looking strangely at himself and his work.” Whether Brecht intended the distancing effect to refer to the audience or to the actor or to both audience and actor is still controversial among teachers and scholars of “Epic Acting” and Brechtian theatre.

By disclosing and making obvious the manipulative contrivances and “fictive” qualities of the medium, the viewer is alienated from any passive acceptance and enjoyment of the play as mere “entertainment.” Instead, the viewer is forced into a critical, analytical frame of mind that serves to disabuse him of the notion that what he is watching is necessarily an inviolable, self-contained narrative. This effect of making the familiar strange serves a didactic function insofar as it teaches the viewer not to take the style and content for granted, since the medium itself is highly constructed and contingent upon many cultural and economic conditions.

Science is Fiction / The Sounds of Science: The Films of Jean Painleve

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:49:20 +0100

Science is Fiction / The Sounds of Science: The Films of Jean Painleve

ANIMISM

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:21:00 +0100

16.03.2012 - 06.05.2012

Opening 15.03.2012

Animism is a multi-faceted exhibition project that addresses the reevaluation of modernity currently taking place along the lines of Bruno Latour’s “We Have Never Been Modern“. The exhibition’s starting point is the artistic-aesthetic process of animation, best known from cartoons and animation films, and examines its relationship with the categorial definitions and limits of the modern world-view.

The attraction of animation, namely, is that it transcends borders: the difference between life and non-life, stasis and movement, the human and the animal, reality and imagination are systematically destabilized by animation.

The exhibition places these phenomena in the context of the term ‘animism’, which stems from 19th-century ethnology. Animism is generally understood to be a religious practice, which, in contrast to the objectivizing standpoint of modern rationality views objects and nature as living things, which possess different forms of subjectivity. The project asks questions about the borders between objects and subjects, between nature and culture, between the psyche and the material world. The term ‘animism’ becomes that starting point of an inquiry into these borders – not least because they have become more fluid through the global and technological developments of recent years and are therefore being reevaluated. The exhibition, with works by about 30 international artists, creates an Ethnological Museum of Modernity in Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

“Como tienen la memoria corta, los hombres acumulan numerosos...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:31:00 +0100

“Como tienen la memoria corta, los hombres acumulan numerosos recordatorios”.

Toute la mémorie du monde, 1956. Alain Resnais.