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open.spotify.comJoscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212
youtube.comDebunking new-age spirituality | Slavoj Žižek, Rupert Sheldrake, John Vervaeke and more
youtube.comSam Harris | #338 - The Sin of Moral Equivalence
samharris.orgJohn Pawson - Wooden Chapel
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A small path leads to the chapel’s entrance, located at the transitional point between woodland and open ground. The architecture is framed as the simplest of gestures. From certain perspectives its mass appears as a pile of logs stacked up to dry; from others the considered placement of the elements on a concrete plinth creates a more formal impression of a piece of sculpture emerging from the forest. The purposefully narrow entry maintains the sense of physical proximity encountered as one moves through the dense trees, adding visceral and visual theatre to the exhilarating experience of passing into an attenuated space over seven metres high and nearly nine metres long.
Presenting the US-debut of Jon Rafman’s “Punctured Sky” (2021) 🌟🐷❤️🩹 @jonrafman Jon Rafman’s artistic practice spans film, sculpture, photography and installation, incorporating the rich vocabulary of virtual worlds to create poetic narratives that critically engage with the present. His work has been featured in prominent international exhibitions, including the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), and many more. The gallery is open until 6pm Saturday and Sunday. “Poets, Gamblers, Fools” is on view through the end of the year 🤍 #JonRafman
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Wrapped Armchair by Christo and Jean-Claude, 1964 #ChairOnly
instagram.comDecomposing the experience of feeling intimidated.
Mystery.
Admiration.
Fear.
Respect.
Wonder.
Danger.
Unpredictable.
Adrenaline.
Disempowered.
Movement.
Mirada (no suitable word in English).
Pudor (also, no English word).
Intimidate me, please.
What is a cloud? How are humans affecting the air, the weather, and the conditions of the skies? How can climate be designed? Who owns an artificial storm? Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation. Through the artificial creation of ice crystals, weather modification can occur. Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft and seeding them with silver iodide. The hypothesis was that the silver iodide would cause supercooled water in the storm to freeze, disrupting the inner structure of the hurricane, and this led to seeding several Atlantic hurricanes. However, it was later shown that this hypothesis was incorrect. It was determined that most hurricanes do not contain enough supercooled water for cloud seeding to be effective. Such experiments are problematic, as several changes of environmental legislation had to be made to enable these trials. From a postnatural perspective, weather conditions have turned into economic and political negotiations, unveiling the complexity of a new climatic environment in which the movements of storms, clouds, and air currents are modified according to specific interests. A geopolitical story of invisible particles that reshapes the way of understanding climatology. This and many more complex situations will be discussed during the “New Ecologies: De-centralizing the human through contemporary art” seminar, starting October 17th. All info on our website www.instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org
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