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Feb 10
The Fall of Casablanca
Music for a dance piece (5 min)
I composed this piece in 1997 for the dancer Thomas Körtvélyessy (Reàl Dance Company – Rotterdam)
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10
Aug 10
from LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB- A. RIMBAUD & R. Maplethorpe A Season in Hell. 1986
It is recovered.
What? – Eternity.
In the whirling light
Of the sun in the sea.
O my eternal soul,
Hold fast to desire
In spite of the night
And the day on fire.
You must set yourself free
From the striving of Man
And the applause of the World
You must fly as you can…
- No hope forever
No orietur.
Science and patience,
The torment is sure.
The fire within you,
Soft silken embers,
Is our whole duty
But no one remembers.
It is recovered.
What? Eternity.
In the whirling light
Of the sun in the sea.
from LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB- A. RIMBAUD & R. Maplethorpe A Season in Hell. 1986
03
Jun 10
The Pulp Reality of the Jobbik
The left-wing Hungarian government (MSZP-SZDSZ)*, which ruled Hungary in the past eight years, had a claim to be antifascist. How could it happen that the far right is more popular than in the darkest days of the country, during the Nazi occupation in 1944?
Borrowed from the Cats Looks Like Hitler website
26
May 10
Valentin Turchin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the 1960s, Turchin became politically active. In 1968 he authored “The Inertia of Fear and the Scientific Worldview”,[1] a scathing critique of totalitarianism supported by an emerging cybernetic social theory. Following its publication in the underground press, he lost his research laboratory.[citation needed] In 1970 he authored “The Phenomenon of Science”,[2] a grand cybernetic meta-theory of universal evolution, which broadened and deepened the earlier book. By 1973, Turchin had founded the Moscow chapter of Amnesty International and was working closely with the well-known physicist and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov. In 1974 he lost his position at the Institute, and was persecuted by the KGB. Facing almost certain imprisonment, he and his family were forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1977.
02
May 10
A quantum calculation (found)
Information theory
A quantum calculation
A physicist argues that information is at the root of everything
Apr 22nd 2010 | From The Economist print edition
Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information. By Vlatko Vedral. Oxford University Press; 256 pages; $29.95 and £16.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
ONE of the most elusive goals in modern physics has turned out to be the creation of a grand unified theory combining general relativity and quantum mechanics, the two pillars of 20th-century physics. General relativity deals with gravity and time and space; quantum mechanics with the microscopic workings of matter. Both are incredibly successful in their own domains, but they are inconsistent with one another.
For decades physicists have tried to put the two together. At the heart of the quest lies the question, of what is the universe made? Is it atoms of matter, as most people learned in school? Or some sort of energy? String theory, currently a popular idea, holds that the universe is made up of tiny vibrating strings. Other equally esoteric candidates abound. Indeed, cynics claim that there are as many grand unified theories as there are theoretical physicists attempting unification.
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