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EXTRAORDINARY PHYSICS. “The interior of a neutron star, endowed with the highest magnetic fields known and with densities spanning about ten orders of magnitude from the surface to the centre, is predicted to exhibit various phases of dense strongly interacting matter, whose physics is reviewed in this chapter.” https://lnkd.in/dm-4wAJ View in LinkedIn

COSMIC LABS. “Formed in the aftermath of gravitational core-collapse supernova explosions, neutron stars are unique cosmic laboratories for probing the properties of matter under extreme conditions that cannot be reproduced in terrestrial laboratories.” https://lnkd.in/dm-4wAJ View in LinkedIn

THE NEW MULTITUDE. “In this formulation, I draw upon the work of Pablo Virno, who states: “the contemporary multitude is composed neither of “citizens” nor “producers”; it occupies a middle region between individual and collective, for the multitude, then, the distinction between “public” and “private” is no way validated.” The multitude then offers a powerful vision that smashes the exhausted but endemic individual-collective binary that haunts the study of memory.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

A rare luxury in Lockdown World to go to a real concert (Jupiter and Pathétique, both the last symphonies of Mozart and Tchaikovsky. View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION DEMOCRACY. “And these new parameters at least may appear as liberating. For example, the ‘miscellanizing” of information not only breaks it out of its traditional organizational categories but also removes the implicit authority granted by being published in the paper world, and the fluidity, reproducibility and transferability of digital data overnight smash the spatial and artifactual constraints of the twentieth century memory booms.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

ETHERIAL ARCHIVE. “The archive is no longer only collected, organized, managed, walled and kept in an array of institutional memory keepers, but is also diffused through a new ‘memory ecology’. This is the current digital environment’s (re)ordering of the past by and through multiple connectivities of times, actors and events, which also shifts the very parameters of memory and memory studies.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE NEW SHADOW ARCHIVES. “Yet the medial gathering and splintering of the individual, social and cultural imaginaries, increasingly networked through portal and pervasive digital media and communication devices, attach shadow archives to much of everyday life, that also blend and complicate that which once was considered distinctly public and private.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

TRADITIONAL ARCHIVES. “The archive has been traditionally seen (like other media) as separate and external to the self, as something with institutional status, as variously a place and space for the storage of artifacts of the past that give rise to remembering.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE NEW LANDSCAPE. “The digital’s affordance of movement, liveliness and control, of being connected, actually obfuscates the multitude’s archival dimensions. The multitude forges a non-sociable social or a sharing without sharing precisely because its digitally connected memory is both humanly and algorithmically archived, mixing up and blurring the conscious and the unconscious, the discriminate and the indiscriminate.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn