The modern human is a cordless Theseus. We are neither male nor female, and we are within the labyrinth, armed not with weapons or determination, but with cell phones…………We are all within the labyrinth, which is now a crowded place full of humans taking selfies.
Tensions between life as described by the statistical-mechanical view of biochemistry and the human tendency towards theory of mind are explored in prose poetry, and the sublimity of scientific creativity as non-distinct from religious experience is expressed.
The proposal of this paper is that memory and dreams are forms of time reflection and result from a unique property of the brain, which acts as a natural metamaterial.
Dr. Coe’s essay describes the part that trees and landscapes play in her emotional and spiritual wellbeing while acknowledging the practical benefits of trees in protecting our environment. As her narrative moves from the Pacific Northwest to Colorado to Hawaii to the Arizona desert and more, the reader can share her journey to each of these very diverse environments and experience their role in enrichment of life.
#Iconograph is a collection of oil paintings and scriptures which merge the social media Influencer with religious iconography. Devised and created by artist Dita Angeles, her fifteen black and white paintings feature a spectacle of anonymous, democratically interchangeable, & ultimately disposable gods within the limits of social technology, while the rules of the universe are dictated across 20 scriptures. Angeles’ then illuminates the “why?” and “what the…?” with her technically religious experience of contrivance in social culture.
The purpose of this paper is to propose that learning from the behavior of migrating animals in different environments may help to understand the behavior of migrating cancer cells within the different environments of the human body.
“Through its whole life and even after it is dead and decaying, a tree supports the life around it. Through sharing resources and working together in complex and infinite pathways, alliances, and kinship networks, trees reach enormousness and increase their chances of survival and ours as well. These new discoveries of the hidden life of trees suggest new metaphors for our survival and how we should act to protect our home and our species. My ‘Elegy to the Underground’ watercolors and oil paintings are a tribute or memorial to trees whose heartbreaking loss I fear and mourn.”
Rumination takes place within the body and is therefore constrained by the body’s material reality, particularly the material reality of memory. We do not know exactly how memory is contained in the body but there are indications that memories are constantly remodelled on the molecular level. That is, they do not stay static. Kierkegaard’s ideas on despair are in line with this idea of constant change. Kierkegaard’s self strives for a consistency which it cannot achieve and therefore it must despair, but it is also transformed through this process, suggesting that unwelcome mental loops are tentative and changeable.
The contemporary cosmological narrative is linked to a traditional symbolic representation of the whole. The number, in the qualitative sense, allows a link between the physically knowable reality and the imaginary World-Soul. Thus, the quaternary is reflected in four fundamental cosmological events, two of which are of the simple attractor type with the other two characterized by strong emergence. The ternary is revealed through a three-moment dialectic, chiseled into the cosmic becoming by the fundamental forces of physics. The reflections of these two archetypal numbers thus offer another glimpse of the universe and, from a perspective between different orders of reality, may also offer food for thought about certain new relationships between cosmological events.
The Luminous Envelope is a body of contemporary photographic work developed in response to a historic plaster model of Fresnel’s Wave Surface. Created in the 19th century as a teaching aid, the Fresnel model sought to communicate abstract concepts in tangible form. It is drawn from an equation that describes the double refraction of light in a particular type of crystal. The Luminous Envelope is used as a way of reflecting on this process of transcription (from equation to physical object), and on the gap between the world and our representations of it.