Nouvelle Science

VAGUE FICTION Conexiones entre situaciones de análisis y percepción científica en cuanto conocimiento objetivo (escalas de verosimilitud), aprendizaje no experiencial derivado del imaginario tecnológico (extrañamiento y proyección), y grados de formación de consciencia ideal y crítica (nuevas formas de orientación). Un proyecto de Regina de Miguel.

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Maria Callas as Medea MEDEA (1969) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

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“I think self-care gets dismissed too quickly as neo-liberalism and individualism. In the hands of Lorde, caring for one’s self is about how we inhabit our fragile bodies that have capacities that can be exhausted; it is about finding ways to exist in a world that is diminishing. Caring for oneself is also about caring for others, that important work, often painful, that practical and domestic work, of maintaining the conditions for each other’s existence. I am not fond of the word repair: in race politics it can be used to imply recovery in a way that re-covers or covers over injuries and injustices. But I think it does help to think of repair as an ordinary activity, as what we need to do to keep things going, given the wear and tear that is part of living a life. Words can be worn, bodies too, from how much they are asked to do. I might even say that one way that feminism can help us to reimagine the division between work and rest is the profound emphasis many feminists have given to the ordinary, not on transcendence, being above and beyond, but on being immersed in ordinary life. The work of care is that.”

— Sara Ahmed, “Once We Find Each Other, So Much Else Becomes Possible”

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NO PONDRÁS NOMBRE AL FUEGO No medirás la llama con palabras dictadas por la tribu, no pondrás nombre al fuego, no medirás su alcance. Todas las llamas son el mismo fuego. Mi cuerpo es una antorcha que alumbra los espantos que la razón construye en sus tinieblas. Hay que bajar al cuerpo, muy adentro, tocar el centro ardiente, abrirlo y propagar el gozo de la lava. No importa en qué caderas, en qué pecho resbale, no importa la estatura, el sexo o la materia pues todos caminamos sobre la misma pira. No medirás la llama con palabras que encubren los viejos sentimientos de los hombres.

Chantal Maillard

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Isabelle Adjani in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), dir. by Werner Herzog.

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Attenberg | Athina Rachel Tsangari | 2010

Evangelia Randou, Ariane Labed

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Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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René-Antoine Houasse. Apollo pursuing Daphne (detail), 1677. Source

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Clavis Artis (17th century), a manuscript of alchemy and is attributed to the Persian Zoroaster.

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Gamma-ray Bursts: Black Hole Birth Announcements

Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest, most violent explosions in the universe, but they can be surprisingly tricky to detect. Our eyes can’t see them because they are tuned to just a limited portion of the types of light that exist, but thanks to technology, we can even see the highest-energy form of light in the cosmos — gamma rays.

So how did we discover gamma-ray bursts? 

Accidentally!

We didn’t actually develop gamma-ray detectors to peer at the universe — we were keeping an eye on our neighbors! During the Cold War, the United States and the former Soviet Union both signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 that stated neither nation would test nuclear weapons in space. Just one week later, the US launched the first Vela satellite to ensure the treaty wasn’t being violated. What they saw instead were gamma-ray events happening out in the cosmos!

Things Going Bump in the Cosmos

Each of these gamma-ray events, dubbed “gamma-ray bursts” or GRBs, lasted such a short time that information was very difficult to gather. For decades their origins, locations and causes remained a cosmic mystery, but in recent years we’ve been able to figure out a lot about GRBs. They come in two flavors: short-duration (less than two seconds) and long-duration (two seconds or more). Short and long bursts seem to be caused by different cosmic events, but the end result is thought to be the birth of a black hole.

Short GRBs are created by binary neutron star mergers. Neutron stars are the superdense leftover cores of really massive stars that have gone supernova. When two of them crash together (long after they’ve gone supernova) the collision releases a spectacular amount of energy before producing a black hole. Astronomers suspect something similar may occur in a merger between a neutron star and an already-existing black hole.

Long GRBs account for most of the bursts we see and can be created when an extremely massive star goes supernova and launches jets of material at nearly the speed of light (though not every supernova will produce a GRB). They can last just a few seconds or several minutes, though some extremely long GRBs have been known to last for hours!

A Gamma-Ray Burst a Day Sends Waves of Light Our Way!

Our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detects a GRB nearly every day, but there are actually many more happening — we just can’t see them! In a GRB, the gamma rays are shot out in a narrow beam. We have to be lined up just right in order to detect them, because not all bursts are beamed toward us — when we see one it’s because we’re looking right down the barrel of the gamma-ray gun. Scientists estimate that there are at least 50 times more GRBs happening each day than we detect!

So what’s left after a GRB — just a solitary black hole? Since GRBs usually last only a matter of seconds, it’s very difficult to study them in-depth. Fortunately, each one leaves an afterglow that can last for hours or even years in extreme cases. Afterglows are created when the GRB jets run into material surrounding the star. Because that material slows the jets down, we see lower-energy light, like X-rays and radio waves, that can take a while to fade. Afterglows are so important in helping us understand more about GRBs that our Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was specifically designed to study them!

Last fall, we had the opportunity to learn even more from a gamma-ray burst than usual! From 130 million light-years away, Fermi witnessed a pair of neutron stars collide, creating a spectacular short GRB. What made this burst extra special was the fact that ground-based gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo caught the same event, linking light and gravitational waves to the same source for the first time ever!

For over 10 years now, Fermi has been exploring the gamma-ray universe. Thanks to Fermi, scientists are learning more about the fundamental physics of the cosmos, from dark matter to the nature of space-time and beyond. Discover more about how we’ll be celebrating Fermi’s achievements all year!

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Silver steel flexible double bladed snake rapier, made during the 19th century in Toledo, Spain. 

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THIS IS SO BOMB

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it’s for hardcore Indiana Jones cosplayers

you think it’s a whip and end up getting stabbed

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Y’all can’t tell me that this ain’t slytherin as fuck

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Network Nebula in Cygnus

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Conceptual Drawing of spatial connections between Reality I, II, and II in “Solaris”, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972

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R.I.P. Donatas Banionis (28 April, 1924 – 4 September, 2014)

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Zizek on Tarkovsky´s Solaris

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A contraluz. Pynchon. Forever ether and fuckyeahbrutalism

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Artículo de Alfredo Aracil sobre las relaciones arte y ciencia, entre la exposición Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, el trabajo de Roc Jiménez, EVOL y algunos de mis últimos proyectos.