If I understand correctly, these are ceramic bowls floating in a pool of water, possibly in a cave because it’s echo-y, and the clinking sound is them bumping into one another. Like wind chimes, but … water chimes?
yo, i saw this in person over the summer! it’s an art installation!
the piece is called clinamen v.2, created by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot and included as a part of the Soundtracks exhibit in the moma – i saw it in san fran, and this photo is from a showing in new york:
the exhibit is a large shallow pool filled with white ceramic bowls in varying sizes. the bowls are pushed around the pool by a gentle current, and the sound created as they hit each other is somewhere between a wind chime and a haunted bell.
i sat there for a solid ten minutes just watching the bowls move around while listening to the sounds they made. it was absolutely hypnotic…
Soundtracks runs in the san fran moma until january 1st 2018, and i absolutely recommend going if you can. many of the exhibits play with sound in 3D spaces, and there are some truly wild contraptions on display.
The main contradiction of liberal democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures. Such civil disobedience is (retrospectively) seen as justified, and the people committing it are (retrospectively) seen as heroes…but each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.
each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.
My mother in law is 64 and is still being forced to work 12 hour shifts sometimes 8 shifts in a row (I was also subjected to the same until my health declined) because they don’t want to have to pay extra to get bank staff, and if you don’t do the shifts they’ll sack you. Despite working the hours, our household is still relatively poor, but the boss can afford a second house because she gets whatever money saved for the company as a Christmas bonus
In the space of a year the Foreign and Commonwealth Office loses 40% of its budget!?
That doesn’t sound like a UK that’s going to be able to project its voice around the world and secure trade deals after Brexit.
Very bizarre move. If I believed in the UK as an institution, this is not what I’d want to be seeing.
This is also quite worrying from a safety and protection of citizens abroad standpoint. As EU citizens we can utilise any EU member state embassy for assistance while abroad.
With Brexit UK, you can’t use EU countries’ embassy service and you’re also going to have reduced services due to FCO cuts.
Just astonishing.
This will also impact visas. The UK still doesn’t have an electronic visa system. Reduced staff will mean slower visa processing times so will result in massive backlog or reduced tourism.
Can’t complain about Johnny Foreigner coming here if you slash the FCO budget, am I right?!
Who would have thought “take control of our borders” actually meant “we don’t give a fuck about our citizens abroad and we don’t give a fuck about people coming here either so we’re going to do our best to make the UK a nightmare to deal with and discourse any form of migration”..?
Artist Uses 100,000 Banned Books To Build A Full-Size Parthenon At Historic Nazi Book Burning Site
Further cool fact that the linked article doesn’t mention: the books will be given away to visitors at the end of the installation, so this is not only displaying works that were banned, but also spreading them among a new audience.
Uh, I presume they are going to debunk that claim in the article, but… who would even start to think that?
Like, if you could even have an apolitical and socially neutral story (you really can’t, *at most* you might have a story where you don’t notice it for “fish in water” type reasons)…. it certainly wouldn’t be I, Robot.
If you can’t get it from Hugo Freakin’ Gernsback himself, where is this non-political, non-social-commentary science fiction the Puppies keep remembering?
The answer is simple: it does not exist, and it never has existed. The very notion of it is no more than a piece of socially and politically charged fiction.
so, me, my brother and my mother had to physically fight my dad back in september and have him arrested. he’s out of the house now, but he lost his job as a result of being charged with 2nd degree assault, and he’s also an abusive asshole, so we can’t depend on him for any help.
me and my brother are both on workstudy, so we’re only making enough cash to cover the basics. we found out that my dad hadn’t paid utilities (electricity, water) in awhile, and we have mortgage payments coming up at the end of the month. the car also refused to turn on until we got a jump, and we know that the engine already has problems, (and i’m praying that it’s not both, bc i’m already paying for the diagnostic). my mother is looking for work, but hasn’t found anything yet.
honestly, i could really, really, use the help. me and my brother are trying to support my mom and sister the best we can.
…adding to this, Isaac Asimov was Jewish. ISTR he was an atheist and not particularly invested in his identity, but he was, culturally, Jewish.
You can’t read his robot stories ignoring that, particularly in light of the golem tradition and so on. A lot of his robot stories are about the humanity in something considered inhuman.
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