#aesthetics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aesthetics, aggregated by home.social.
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From the studio: acrylic and collage on cartridge, including fabric, 21 x 30cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic and collage on cartridge, including fabric, 21 x 30cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic and collage on cartridge, including fabric, 21 x 30cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic and collage on cartridge, including fabric, 21 x 30cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic and collage on cartridge, including fabric, 21 x 30cm, 2026
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I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568162
#HackerNews #aesthetics #puzzle #design #jigsaw #creativity #art
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I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568162
#HackerNews #aesthetics #puzzle #design #jigsaw #creativity #art
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I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568162
#HackerNews #aesthetics #puzzle #design #jigsaw #creativity #art
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I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568162
#HackerNews #aesthetics #puzzle #design #jigsaw #creativity #art
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I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568162
#HackerNews #aesthetics #puzzle #design #jigsaw #creativity #art
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A quote from Kiyosi Itô, mathematician and 1998 Kyoto laureate, born #OnThisDay in in 1915:
‘In precisely built mathematical structures, mathematicians find the same sort of beauty others find in enchanting pieces of music, or in magnificent architecture.’
— Itô, 'My Sixty Years along the Path of Probability Theory'. 1998 Kyoto Prize lecture abstract [https://www.kyotoprize.org/en/speech/the-1998-kyoto-prize/]
(One of innumerable testimonies indicating that the subjective experience of #MathematicalBeauty parallels that of visual or auditory beauty.)
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A quote from Kiyosi Itô, mathematician and 1998 Kyoto laureate, born #OnThisDay in in 1915:
‘In precisely built mathematical structures, mathematicians find the same sort of beauty others find in enchanting pieces of music, or in magnificent architecture.’
— Itô, 'My Sixty Years along the Path of Probability Theory'. 1998 Kyoto Prize lecture abstract [https://www.kyotoprize.org/en/speech/the-1998-kyoto-prize/]
(One of innumerable testimonies indicating that the subjective experience of #MathematicalBeauty parallels that of visual or auditory beauty.)
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A quote from Kiyosi Itô, mathematician and 1998 Kyoto laureate, born #OnThisDay in in 1915:
‘In precisely built mathematical structures, mathematicians find the same sort of beauty others find in enchanting pieces of music, or in magnificent architecture.’
— Itô, 'My Sixty Years along the Path of Probability Theory'. 1998 Kyoto Prize lecture abstract [https://www.kyotoprize.org/en/speech/the-1998-kyoto-prize/]
(One of innumerable testimonies indicating that the subjective experience of #MathematicalBeauty parallels that of visual or auditory beauty.)
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A quote from Kiyosi Itô, mathematician and 1998 Kyoto laureate, born #OnThisDay in in 1915:
‘In precisely built mathematical structures, mathematicians find the same sort of beauty others find in enchanting pieces of music, or in magnificent architecture.’
— Itô, 'My Sixty Years along the Path of Probability Theory'. 1998 Kyoto Prize lecture abstract [https://www.kyotoprize.org/en/speech/the-1998-kyoto-prize/]
(One of innumerable testimonies indicating that the subjective experience of #MathematicalBeauty parallels that of visual or auditory beauty.)
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From the studio: acrylic on board, 43 x 42.5cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic on board, 43 x 42.5cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic on board, 43 x 42.5cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic on board, 43 x 42.5cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic on board, 43 x 42.5cm, 2026
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Album Songbooks
Альбоми піснярів, Альбомы песенников, песенники
#Songbooks #песенники
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/429Ноты, notes, нота
#Ноты, #notes, #нота
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/428Средневековая бытовая музыка, Фольклор, Джаз, Рок
Середньовічна побутова музика, Фольклор, Джаз, Рок
Medieval household music, Folklore, Jazz, Rock
#Фольклор, #Джаз, #Рок #Folklore, #Jazz, #Rock
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/425О композиторах, About composers, Про композиторів
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/424Книги композиторов и книги о дирижёрах и исполнителях
Книги композиторів і книги про диригентів і виконавців
Books by composers and books about conductors and performers
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/423История музыки, размышления
Music history, reflections
Історія музики, роздуми
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/422Анализ творчества композиторов
Аналіз творчості композиторів
Analysis of composers' creativity
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/419Эстетика, психология музыки, медицина и др
Aesthetics, psychology of music, medicine, etc.
Естетика, психологія музики, медицина та ін
#Эстетика, #психологиямузыки, #медицина и др
#Aesthetics, #psychology of music, #medicine, etc.
#Естетика, #психологіямузики, #медицина та ін
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/415Статьи, очерки о музыке, эссе
Статті, нариси про музику, есе
Articles, essays about music, essays
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/414Словари, справочники, документы, музыкальные программы
Словники, довідники, документи, музичні програми
Dictionaries, reference books, documents, music programs музыка
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/412Оркестровка, инструментовка, чтение партитур
Orchestration, instrumentation, reading scores
Оркестровка, інструментування, читання партитур музыка
#Оркестровка, #инструментовка, #чтениепартитур
#Orchestration, #instrumentation, #reading scores
#Оркестровка, #інструментування, #читанняпартитур_музыка
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/411Народное творчество, фольклор, декоративно-прикладное искусство
Народна творчість, фольклор
Folk art, folklore
#Народноетворчество, #фольклор, #декоративноприкладноеискусство
#Народнатворчість, #фольклор
#Folk art, #folklore
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/410Методика, руководства, обучающие материалы
Methodology, manuals, training materials
Методика, керівництва, навчальні матеріали музыка
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/409История музыки и монографии
Історія музики та монографії
Music History and monographs
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/408Гармония, теория, полифония, композиция
Harmony, theory, polyphony, composition
Гармонія, теорія, поліфонія, композиція музыка
#Гармония, #теория, #полифония, #композиция
#Harmony, #theory, #polyphony, #composition
#Гармонія, #теорія, #поліфонія, #композиція #музыка
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/407Автобиографии, воспоминания, письма, мемуары
Autobiographies, memoirs, letters, memoirs
Автобіографії, спогади, листи, мемуари музыка
#Автобиографии, #воспоминания, #письма, #мемуары
#Autobiographies, #memoirs, #letters, #memoirs
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Big update to ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’: the PDFs are now *tagged* (plus various minor improvements).
A #TaggedPDF contains hidden extra semantic information to assist screen-reading software etc., including alt text for diagrams+images (in the case of ‘F&N’, 552 pieces of alt text were required, some quite lengthy).
The new version is available (#OpenAccess as always) at: https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
Feedback from users of screen readers would be very welcome!
Creating this version has been possible because of the ongoing LaTeX tagging project [https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/] (thank you to the LaTeX team and other contributors!). I have been adapting my own #LuaLaTeX styles [https://codeberg.org/ajcain/minos] to use the new interfaces.
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#accessibility #a11y #MathArt #HistMath #HistSci #MathematicalBeauty #aesthetics #typography #TeXLaTeX
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Hollywood Reporter: Social Media Face-Off: What’s Keeping Plastic Surgery Influencers Up at Night. “Educated speculation made these plastic surgeons and aesthetics experts niche stars in their own right. And since they’ve infiltrated my algorithm, I’ve noticed that many are starting to use their platforms for more than analyzing actresses and posting before-and-after shots of their own […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/16/social-media-face-off-whats-keeping-plastic-surgery-influencers-up-at-night-hollywood-reporter/ -
Hollywood Reporter: Social Media Face-Off: What’s Keeping Plastic Surgery Influencers Up at Night. “Educated speculation made these plastic surgeons and aesthetics experts niche stars in their own right. And since they’ve infiltrated my algorithm, I’ve noticed that many are starting to use their platforms for more than analyzing actresses and posting before-and-after shots of their own […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/16/social-media-face-off-whats-keeping-plastic-surgery-influencers-up-at-night-hollywood-reporter/ -
Hollywood Reporter: Social Media Face-Off: What’s Keeping Plastic Surgery Influencers Up at Night. “Educated speculation made these plastic surgeons and aesthetics experts niche stars in their own right. And since they’ve infiltrated my algorithm, I’ve noticed that many are starting to use their platforms for more than analyzing actresses and posting before-and-after shots of their own […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/16/social-media-face-off-whats-keeping-plastic-surgery-influencers-up-at-night-hollywood-reporter/ -
Another example from the second part of the art commission for Cyber FKN Goats.
#ps1 #y2k #cybercore #aesthetics #wallpaper #commission_art #commissions #commissionart #commission_open #y2k #nostalgia
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One of the examples of art commission for Cyber FKN Goats.
I really enjoyed it.
#ps1 #y2k #cybercore #aesthetics #commission_art #commissions #commissionart #commission_open #y2k #nostalgia #guncon #namco
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Yves-Marie André's (1675–1764) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Marie_André] ‘Essay on Beauty’ (‘Essai sur le beau’, 1741) was an important work of 18th-century aesthetics. In the article on beauty in the 2nd volume (1752) of the ‘Encylopédie’, Denis Diderot praised André's system as the best he knew, elevating it above the work of Plato, Augustine, Wolff, Crousaz, Shaftesbury.
In 2010, I released a #CreativeCommons-licensed annotated English translation [https://archive.org/details/EssayOnBeauty]. I have just made an update: the PDF is now an accessible #TaggedPDF.
(The LaTeX tagging system is still under development [https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/], but I have been adapting my LaTeX styles to be tagging-compatible.)
Although I was a much less practised typographer 16 years ago, I have left the overall design of ‘Essay on Beauty’ unchanged, contenting myself with minor improvements offered by an updated version of the Baskervald font, ensuring that line-end hyphenations follow the OUP standard, and a few other localized improvements.
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It is no coincidence that the mandorla — the almond-shaped halo around Christ or the Virgin Mary — mirrors the vulva’s form. Named after the Italian for “almond,” it symbolises the threshold between worlds, the sacred gateway through which divine light and incarnation enter the human realm.
#catholicism #ArtHistory #iconography
#symbolism #ReligiousArt #medievalArt
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any recommendations for modernist depictions of agriculture and food production?
i've included some example images below.
some keywords:
* mechanized agriculture
* industrial farming
* industrial food production
* farm as factory
* farm modernization
* chemical agriculture
* green revolutioni've got the following materials on my to-read list:
* "every farm a factory: the industrial ideal in american agriculture" by deborah fitzgerald
* Ch. 8 of "seeing like a state": "Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity" by james c. scott
* "Farming according to 'the laws of beauty': Aesthetics and agriculture" by david cooper (https://www.academia.edu/14380031/Farming_according_to_the_laws_of_beauty_Aesthetics_and_agriculture)
* "the american technological sublime" by david nye (not sure if it has anything about agriculture specifically)
* "the machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral" by leo marx (update: i've now skimmed this work and it seems to be concerned with an earlier era, not the high modernist period)if you're familiar with any written works looking at this kind of aesthetic specifically, i'd love to hear about it.
also, if you have suggestions for archives (online or irl) that might have more materials like this, i'm all ears.
#sundaylibrarian #history #art #ArtHistory #agriculture #GreenRevolution #food #aesthetics #modernism #industrialization #ResearchLibrarian
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Following my earlier posts on historical aesthetic judgements of Euler's identity, I just found another one, in Constance Reid's popular mathematics book ‘From Zero to Infinity’ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Zero_to_Infinity], where it is called ‘elegant’. This appears on p.165 of the 1964 third edition. Can anyone confirm if it appears in the first or second editions? (1955, 1960)
I am still interested in other aesthetic judgements of Euler's identity before 1988 (I know of few, although one more than I knew of yesterday), and especially before 1940 (I currently know of none).
Incidentally, as printed in the third edition of Reid's book, the equation would evoke a shudder from any typographer (see attached image).
#EulersIdentity #EulersEquation #MathHist #MathematcalElegance #aesthetics #MathArt #Mathematics #typography
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Today's post from @paysmaths @Theoremoftheday was on #EulersIdentity or #EulersEquation \(e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\) (also given in various equivalent forms), which prompts me to talk about a little historical mystery.
Euler's identity is often held up as as exemplar of mathematical beauty, or called the most beautiful or most elegant equation in mathematics.
But when I was researching my book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large], I was unable to find *any* aesthetic judgement of the equation before the 1940 book ‘Mathematics and the Imagination’ by Kasner & Newman [https://archive.org/details/mathematicsimagi0000edwa_l2s0], where it is called ‘elegant’ (p.103). The earliest explicit judgements of it as *beautiful* that I found are in essays by Le Lionnais in the late 1940s.
Does anyone know of any aesthetic judgements of Euler's equations before 1940? (I know of earlier non-aesthetic judgements like ‘mysterious’ or ‘paradoxical’.)
(The history of aesthetic judgements of Euler's equation is on pp.835–9 of ‘Form & Number’, #OpenAccess at the link above.)
#MathematicalBeauty #MathHist #aesthetics #MathArt #Mathematics
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Liminal bath
#sigma #sigmadp1 #sigmadp1quattro #quattro #foveonsensor #foveon #landscape #landscapephotography #travel #travelphotography #light #stuttgart #dark #travelblogger #color #colorful #nature #natur #camera #cinematic #mood #urban #city #aesthetic #aesthetics #streetphotography #beautiful #relax #follow #followformore
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...Chris Brown -- Back to Sleep
https://youtu.be/OQLuhelCaDQ?si=xdbJNEJ2rT_Aqbx7The songs do differ, so it's not a case of plagiarism, but it's quite clear that "Crash" draws on the older song.
Three lines of thought came to mind.
In the first place, I wondered - not for the first time - how my feelings about Kpop would change if I listened to more western popular music.
A quick look at the Wikipedia entry on "Back to Sleep" made it clear to me how well known the song had been on its release in 2015. I felt taken aback; am I the only "Crash" listener not to have been aware of the songs' similarities? What would have been my initial reaction to "Crash" had I heard the Chris Brown song first?
Of course Kpop recycles western popular music, just as western popular music in the past (certainly) and in the present (probably) recycles both its own products and music from other sources. Consequently, my feelings are not those of the viewer abashed when the painting one has admired turns out to be a forgery, but rather those of a reader who, on turning from a mass market paperback version of a beloved text to the annotated scholarly edition, discovers all the sources and allusions previously unnoticed.
These thoughts on background knowledge reminded me of a consideration about our responses to music and art in general: just as perception is never simply an impression via the senses on a tabula rasa, so we never look at the visual arts with an "innocent eye" or listen to music without pre-existing concepts, sensibilities, and memories. That tabula full of ideas, far from being an obstacle to our disinterested appreciation, is what what makes our aesthetic experience possible. Without the tabula plena, we would be hard put to recognize the art and the music within our visual and aural experience.
My final thought concerned the lyrics and visuals of the Chris Brown MV. "Crash" was a B side for which no MV was made, but even so one can see from the stage how it differed in feel from the erotically charged American video. In addition, the Korean lyrics have nothing like the explicit sexual language of "Back to Sleep". As such, a comparison reveals a striking difference between South Korea and the USA with regard to the representation of sex in popular culture. Whether one is "better" than the other is a question that interests me less than why these two cultures differ so much in this respect.
#Kpop #RandB #RnB #ChrisBrown #BackToSleep #Crash #Aesthetics #PopularCulture #AmericanCulture #USCulture #SouthKoreanCulture #Korea #Sex
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Pragmatic Cosmos • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09/21/pragmatic-cosmos-1-a/Re: Michael Harris • Not About Fibonacci
• https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/about-the-author/
• https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/not-about-fibonacci/I have often reflected on the interminglings of the main three normative sciences. In one of my earliest meditations I saw Beauty, Goodness, and Truth as the intersecting circles of a Venn diagram, with the “summum bonum” the central cell.
As far as our ability to approach our object from our origin without, perfect knowledge of the Good would require us to know all the consequences of our contemplated actions while perfect knowledge of the True would require us to know all the axiom sets which never beget a contradiction.
As far as I could tell, and as far as I could see deciding with the empirical tests and theorem provers I could morally and mathematically envision devising, the above two tasks exceed the talents of mortal humans and all their technological extensions.
But when it comes to Beauty, our form of being appears to have an inborn sense to guide us on our quest to the highest good. That way through beauty to our ultimate goal I called the “human‑hearted path”.
#Aesthetics #Ethics #Logic #Beauty #Arete #Goodness #Virtue #Truth
#NormativeScience #Peirce #Pragmata #PragmaticCosmos #SummumBonum -
#VerticalBlinds, I hate them, specifically the vertical strips.
Anyone seen mods/hacks that use the rails and the hooks to make something quite different that function as #Blinds?
Please share.
#ReUseRecycle #FirstWorldProblem #Aesthetics #IndoorDecoration #WindowTreatment #DisturbingHashtags
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Sources On Ai Ai Gasa (Love Umbrella)
https://thenewleafjournal.com/sources-on-ai-ai-gasa-love-umbrella/
I consult original English sources to get to the bottom of the meaning and history of Japan’s ai ai gasa (“love umbrella”).
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!!BONUS CHAT ALERT!!
@arielkroon & @xtinadlr are trying a new thing out this year, where they record a bonus podcast chat from a topic decided on by Patrons each month, and post it up on YouTube for all to hear.
The very first topic of 2024 is LUNARPUNK - because, what even is it, exactly? How does it relate to solarpunk? Can it be described as a movement, or an aesthetic stance, or more of a vibe? What's going on with this nascent genre? Tune in to the discussion now and join the conversation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH548fNSAB8
#lunarpunk #solarpunk #podcasting #podcasting #solarpunkpodcast #aesthetics #vibecheck #activism #ClimateAction #YouTube #LikeAndShare #patreon #patronsaint #content #bonus #Discussion
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!!BONUS CHAT ALERT!!
@arielkroon & @xtinadlr are trying a new thing out this year, where they record a bonus podcast chat from a topic decided on by Patrons each month, and post it up on YouTube for all to hear.
The very first topic of 2024 is LUNARPUNK - because, what even is it, exactly? How does it relate to solarpunk? Can it be described as a movement, or an aesthetic stance, or more of a vibe? What's going on with this nascent genre? Tune in to the discussion now and join the conversation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH548fNSAB8
#lunarpunk #solarpunk #podcasting #podcasting #solarpunkpodcast #aesthetics #vibecheck #activism #ClimateAction #YouTube #LikeAndShare #patreon #patronsaint #content #bonus #Discussion
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!!BONUS CHAT ALERT!!
@arielkroon & @xtinadlr are trying a new thing out this year, where they record a bonus podcast chat from a topic decided on by Patrons each month, and post it up on YouTube for all to hear.
The very first topic of 2024 is LUNARPUNK - because, what even is it, exactly? How does it relate to solarpunk? Can it be described as a movement, or an aesthetic stance, or more of a vibe? What's going on with this nascent genre? Tune in to the discussion now and join the conversation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH548fNSAB8
#lunarpunk #solarpunk #podcasting #podcasting #solarpunkpodcast #aesthetics #vibecheck #activism #ClimateAction #YouTube #LikeAndShare #patreon #patronsaint #content #bonus #Discussion
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!!BONUS CHAT ALERT!!
@arielkroon & @xtinadlr are trying a new thing out this year, where they record a bonus podcast chat from a topic decided on by Patrons each month, and post it up on YouTube for all to hear.
The very first topic of 2024 is LUNARPUNK - because, what even is it, exactly? How does it relate to solarpunk? Can it be described as a movement, or an aesthetic stance, or more of a vibe? What's going on with this nascent genre? Tune in to the discussion now and join the conversation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH548fNSAB8
#lunarpunk #solarpunk #podcasting #podcasting #solarpunkpodcast #aesthetics #vibecheck #activism #ClimateAction #YouTube #LikeAndShare #patreon #patronsaint #content #bonus #Discussion
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Cover image: sleeping whales.
Other things: #family #altcountry #americana #bebop #carribeanmusic #hardbop #folkmusic #jazz #jazzfusion #latinjazz #R&B #rnb #Rock #rnr #R&R #russianhistory #russianliterature #comedy #disasterfilms #seriousfilms #film #demography #ethnography #archeology #asianfood #politicalphilosophy #highfidelity #coffee #whiskey #darkbeer #aperitifs #jujugum #deescalation #comparativereligion #historyofreligion #ancestry #lettingpeoplealone #nature #aesthetics
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In some ways — at least with pop culture and art — it feels like the future is foreclosed now, that we exist in a permanent present. We can draw on the past to remix the present but never imagine a future. Stay with me here.
#Retro #Future #NoFuture #PopCulture #Subculture #Internet #Art #80s #90s #Aesthetics #KPunk #MarkFisher #Neoliberalism #Hauntology #Vaporwave #AcidCommunism
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"The corollary of being trapped in the past is not having a future."
#Retro #Future #NoFuture #PopCulture #Subculture #Internet #Art #80s #90s #Aesthetics #KPunk #MarkFisher #Neoliberalism #Hauntology #Vaporwave #AcidCommunism
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Hello! This is my #introduction.
I have a maths brain & an #anthropological heart. #polymath #interdisciplinary
I research #peace, #disarmament, #nuclear, #bodies, #aesthetics, #medicine, #cardiology, #digital, #death, #history, #activism, #anthropology, #geography, #theory, #philosophy.
My research praxis coalesces around a nexus of STS, social justice & human rights, and feminist & decolonial discourse.
I'm in the #Peaks & enjoy #photography, #hiking, #cello, #chess & #painting. ♿✡️
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So, I wrote a bio and #introduction that was accurate but vanilla. Here’s some detail: #Family,#AltCountry,#Americana,#Bebop,#CarribeanMusic,#HardBop,#FolkMusic,#JazzFusion,#LatinJazz,#RnB,#RnR,#RussianHistory,#RussianLiterature,#Comedy,#DisasterFilms,#SeriousFilms,#Demography,#Ethnography,#Archeology,#AsianFood,#PoliticalPhilosophy,#HighFidelity,#Coffee,#Whiskey,#DarkBeer,#Aperitifs,#JujuGum,#Deescalation,#ComparativeReligion,#HistoryOfReligion,#Ancestry,#LettingPeopleAlone,#Nature,#Aesthetics
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So, I wrote a bio and #introduction that was accurate but vanilla. Here’s some detail: #family,#altcountry,#americana,#bebop,#carribeanmusic,#hardbop,#folkmusic,#jazzfusion,#latinjazz,#RnB,#RnR,#russianhistory,#russianliterature,#comedy,#disasterfilms,#seriousfilms,#demography,#ethnography,#archeology,#asianfood,#politicalphilosophy,#highfidelity,#coffee,#whiskey,#darkbeer,#aperitifs,#jujugum,#deescalation,#comparativereligion,#historyofreligion,#ancestry,#lettingpeoplealone,#nature,#aesthetics