CELLINI, Benvenuto

Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150712

From Laughing Squid, 3D-Printed Paintings of Nanomolecular Structures by Shane Hope.

Shane has a pretty interesting website:

Q: Is your work deliberately trying to be opaque, and if so, what are the benefits of hyper-complexity (both conceptual and aesthetic)?

A: Many have been too hypnotized by technocratic solutionism to see that not all clarity is benevolently about accuracy and not all lack thereof should be immediately suspect. Getting obsessive-compulsive about the future can be counterproductive inasmuch as it often precludes a greater gamut of adaptability. Ambiguity, opacity, allusion, metaphor and semantic slippage can all serve as really important tools when making artwork, or realities for that matter. From the butterfly flap you choose, emerges the superstorm you deserve.

Hm.

Estonian Art And Literature: Big Ideas In A Small Country

Hips Liberated Because the Feet Have Been Shackled

Hips Liberated Because the Feet Have Been Shackled

Originally posted on COOLIE WOMAN:

Michael Goldberg Collection, U.W.I., Trinidad. http://www.cooliewoman.com

For the new Indian site Scroll.in, I wrote about my affection for chutney music. Here’s the piece:

Bollywood and my mother’s bhajans were the background music of my childhood. Growing up in New Jersey in the 1980s, any and all yearning for lost homelands was set to the score of…

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कौतुक के पर्वत का सैलानी

कौतुक के पर्वत का सैलानी लुडविग विट्गेन्स्टाइन की दुनिया प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी 1. व्यक्ति और कृति संसार और जीवन एक हैं । मैं ही अपना संसार हूँ । लुडविग विट्गेन्स्टाइन (‘ट्रैक्टेटस लॉजिको-फ़िलोसॉफ़िकस’, 5.621, 5.63) । निश्चय ही यह अब तक प्रकाशित दार्शनिक कृतियों में सबसे पहेलीनुमा रचनाओं में से है : तर्कशास्त्रियों के लिए कुछ ज्यादा ही रहस्यात्मक, रहस्यवादियों के लिए कुछ ज्यादा ही तकनीकी,…

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“Two centuries ago, a former European colony took it into its head to catch up with Europe. It has been so successful that the United States of America has become a monster where the flaws, sickness, and inhumanity of Europe have reached frightening proportions.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

The Pivot to Class

The Pivot to Class

King articulated an anti-capitalist analysis of the U.S.

Source: The Pivot to Class

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A time to engage

A time to engage

A week is truly a long time in politics. On Saturday, March 11, when the assembly election results of five states were declared, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s legions of supporters were awash in euphoria. Journalists and commentators ran out of superlatives to describe the party’s victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand: stupendous, stunning, spectacular, magnificent, monumental, and, of course,…

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Martin Luther Kings last day on earth.