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Cosimo Galluzzi
Not today Justin
cherry valley forever
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Game of Thrones Daily
trying on a metaphor
taylor price
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Origami Around
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
$LAYYYTER
Jules of Nature
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
if i look back, i am lost
almost home
Love Begins
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Blog welcome [soft reboot]
This is a blog where I post my art and writing — boty mostly from my fictional world, tentatively titled "The Soft and Echoing Vortices"
I also post and reblog on stuff broadly relating to themes of emergence and complexity as manifested in art, literature, history, philosophy, political and economic theory, and loads of other random things that pique my interest.
Feel free to get in touch with me to ask about anything I post!
Master and Commander vibes with the Bark Europa - Floreana Island, Galapagos - 📸 @joshuavelaf
From out of the ruin of the Great War, and from the cries of an Ireland starved and dismembered by empire, Joyce created a new Trinity: the liberated woman, the compassionate stranger, and the questing and visionary poet. It is the only one I believe in.
View of Paris from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic (1887) by Vincent van Gogh
Three artworks on the same theme, by Hiroo Isono, likely from the 70s or early 80s.
Thanks to @jca-archive for the third scan - the others are from this insta and this company.
Las Lajas Cathedral, Colombia 🇨🇴
100 years ago:
The Victory returning from Trafalgar, in three positions, ca. 1806 (detail), by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
experimenting
It's the same with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Two blokes sharing a flat. Sometimes there's months between cases. What do they get up to in the meantime? 😏
Heron Ritual Hand Pulled Serigraph, 22.5"h x 22.5"w
Brian Perry
Akseli Gallen-Kallela – "Spring" (1900)
"how do you feel about labels as a queer person?"
道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。
🌟✨☀️ Lumen ☀️✨🌟
I’ve reprinted this drawing for the first time in years for Pride month, if you’d like one they’re here!
[T]he American militarization of science would usher in a new era of ecological thought […]. Western colonizers had long configured tropical islands into the contained spaces of a laboratory, which is to say a suppression of island history and Indigenous presence. This generation of AEC [Atomic Energy Commission] ecologists embraced nuclear testing as creating a novel opportunity […]. [T]he Pacific Islands have long been fashioned as laboratories for western colonial interests, from the botanical collecting of James Cook’s voyages to […] structural anthropology. […]
The declassification of a 1957 memo from Brookhaven National Laboratory’s medical researcher Dr [R.C.], the doctor in charge of testing and caring for the hundreds of Marshallese exposed to radiation, has confirmed suspicious that it was the islanders as much as the environment that were subject to an AEC experiment. To his colleagues he wrote, ‘The habitation of these people on the island will afford most valuable ecological radiation data on human beings.’ Arguments like this appear elsewhere in AEC records. For instance, the director of the AEC Health and Safely Laboratory described neighboring Utirik Atoll in 1956 as ‘by far the most contaminated place in the world’ but that it will be ‘very interesting’ to get data from the environment and islanders when they are returned there. Referring to genetic tests about the impact of radiation on fruit flies and mice, he observed of the Marshall Islanders:
‘While it is true that these people do not live, I would say, the way Westerners do, civilized people, it is nevertheless also true that these people are more like us than mice.’ […]
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In claiming Micronesia and expanding the American exclusive economic zone, Truman tripled the territorial size of the United States. […] [T]he oceanic territory, vital to US naval and airforce transit, represents three million square miles. […] With the advent of the far more powerful hydrogen weapons, the AEC in 1954 cordoned off an enormous area of the Pacific, banning the passage of ships or planes for 400,000 square miles. […] Estimated at one thousand times the force of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki […] [in] addition to spreading lethal levels of radiation over 5000 miles of the Pacific, Bravo’s fallout was detected in the rain over Japan, in lubricating oil of Indian aircraft, in winds over Australia, and in the sky over the United States and Europe. It caused the radiogenic illness of the crew of a Japanese freighter 1200 miles away. […]
When Rongelapese women began giving birth to babies without skulls and without skeletons […], infants with severe brain damage and missing limbs, scientists informed them that these miscarriages and defects were ‘to be expected in a small island population.’
Although scientists from the AEC Division of Biology and Medicine had ample evidence of the extensive radiological contamination of Rongelap, they allowed the islanders to return in order to deflect criticism of the AEC’s atmospheric testing program, and thus exposed the islanders to another 22 nuclear tests on Enewetak […].
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The US military films of Micronesia [from 1951] […] juxtapose the modernity of America […] to ‘distant and primitive’ yet vitally important ‘test islands … a giant lab in the middle of an ocean.’ To quote this Hollywood-produced film: […] [A]n outdoor laboratory: Entewak Atoll in the Pacific. […] [T]hree years have passed, three years to bring new and improved atomic weapons to this secluded equatorial land […]. [Image of an American man with suitcase entering his car and waving goodbye to son and dog]. Now the proving grounds come alive like a university campus […] individual test islands, seemingly like so many science buildings on college grounds. […]
Even the foilage has been bulldozed ‘for elbow room’ as one AEC film declares […].
[T]he narrator declares, ‘the islanders are a nomadic group, and are well pleased that the Yanks are going to add a little variety to their lives.’
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All text above by: Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey. “The myth of isolates: ecosystem ecologies in the nuclear Pacific". Cultural Geographies, Volume 20, Number 2, Special Issue: Islanding cultural geographies (April 2013), pages 167-184. First published 31 October 2012. At: doi dot org slash 10.1177/1474474012463664 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]
so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!
