Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks to him about twelve key points in his career from early tape experiments to recording at Chernobyl, via a founding stint in Cabaret Voltaire Strange World Of…
This is the fifth in a series of articles exploring the birth of quantum physics. This is how the great mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead expressed his frustration with the onslaught of weirdness coming from the emerging quantum physics. Our language is inadequate to describe quantum reality
Voici quelques résultats inattendus d’une expérience que j’ai menée sur l’intelligence artificielle Midjourney. Je lui ai simplement demandé d’imaginer “la meilleure oeuvre d’art de tous les temps” selon différents critères, et surtout selon son point de vue d’à l’Intelligence Artificielle. Artificial intelligence
From 2001 to 2021, Nigeria lost 1.14 million hectares of forest, equivalent to a 11% decrease in tree cover and equal to 587 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to Global Forest Watch, a platform that provides data and monitors forests. Cutting down trees for logging, opening up farmland or to feed energy demand …
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The heavy sound of vehicles trundling overhead is impossible to ignore from beneath one of the UK’s best-known concrete structures, which turns 50 on Tuesday. Thousands of motorists travel through the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the outskirts of Birmingham at every hour of every day. Spaghetti Junction at 50: What lies beneath?
Le périurbain fait historiquement l’objet d’une certaine stigmatisation. Pourtant, ces territoires entre villes et champs recèlent un potentiel écologique méconnu en plus de favoriser l’émergence de sociabilités locales, comme nous l’explique Anne-Laure, lectrice d’Usbek & Rica. Et si on changeait de regard sur les banlieues résidentielles ?
I’ve always been drawn to photography because of its inability to tell the full story…It remains unresolved. (Gregory Crewdson) The experience of epiphany is paradoxical: both fleeting, like a bolt of lightning, and transcendent, with the power to alter the course of an entire lifetime. THE VISIONARY ART OF GREGORY CREWDSON
On the morning of 21 October 1966, a dark, glistening wave of coal waste burst out of the hillside above the Welsh village of Aberfan and poured down. People later compared the roar of the collapsing mine tip to a low-flying jet aircraft or thunder or a runaway train. The vision collector: the man who …
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In the vast underground office of Lumon, the megacorporation at the heart of Apple TV Plus’ thriller Severance, the computers are downright bizarre. At first they look a bit like an old Mac, but the closer you look, the more strange they become. The CRT display is somehow a touchscreen. https://ift.tt/MECcWiw The weird computers and …
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Entre les constructions modernes, si mal conçues qu’elles ne deviendront jamais des ruines et les constructions écologiques qui se réinventent ou disparaissent, nous pourrions ne plus léguer à nos descendants de ruines de notre temps. « L’écologie radicale et le capitalisme font des ruines des objets honteux, désuets, impossibles »