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THE NEW AND THE OLD. “Whereas traditional forms of memory developed from ideas of the crowd, the social and the collective, as non-archival entities, and traditional audience relations with media similarly so, in contrast, the multitude is inherently archival -- entangled and distributed through uncertain times and spaces, forms of times and decay and emergences.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE SINGULARITY OF MAN AND MACHINE. “The broader revolutionary change here is the ‘connective turn’: a heady cocktail of immediacy, volume and pervasiveness of the digital, which shape a new knowledge base -- ‘the information infrastructure’ -- that brings people and machines into new relations with one another.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

SHATTERING NEW MEMORY. “Twentieth century media forged new types of mass imaginaries, collectives championed or feared for their capacity to consume and act and think in concert. And this new mass media was also said to remember, to hold a vision of a shared past, to make and remake collective memory...digital technologies and media have transformed remembering and forgetting to such an extent that it should have shattered the cannon.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend features excerpts from ‘Memory of the Multitude, the End of Collective Memory’, by Professor Andrew Hoskins at the University of Glasgow UK, Chair in Global Security (Sociology). This is a remarkable 40,000 foot view of our culture’s immersion into social media, ultimately, a biological phenomenon, since we are part of biology. While it is tightly written, it is really worth the work. Humans, it seems are on the cusp of a significant transformation. https://lnkd.in/dEytMV7 View in LinkedIn

Girona wall showing volcanic basal with bubbles from the mountains and dramatic Rosa Gerona limestone, lying together in state far from home. View in LinkedIn

RUBBISH OR BRILLIANCE. “The wavelengths of light emitted in the glow could be explained, Planck deduced, only by assuming that energy was emitted or absorbed in packets. He worked out the math and showed that the expectations based on his quantum assumption were accurately fulfilled by the light observed in careful experiments. By some accounts, Planck privately suggested that what he had found was either nonsense or one of the greatest discoveries in physics since Newton.” https://lnkd.in/g-p9M-4 View in LinkedIn

SCRATCHING THE SURFACE. “We review here the equation of state of matter in neutron stars from the solid crust through the liquid nuclear matter interior to the quark regime at higher densities. We focus in detail on the question of how quark matter appears in neutron stars, and how it affects the equation of state.” https://lnkd.in/dk9qX6w View in LinkedIn

NEW PHYSICS NEEDED. “The clean identification of several heavy neutron stars, of order two solar masses, challenges our current understanding of how dense matter can be sufficiently stiff to support such a mass against gravitational collapse.” https://lnkd.in/dk9qX6w View in LinkedIn

NEUTRON STARS. “In recent years our understanding of neutron stars has advanced remarkably, thanks to research converging from many directions. The importance of understanding neutron star behavior and structure has been underlined by the recent direct detection of gravitational radiation from merging neutron stars.” https://lnkd.in/dk9qX6w View in LinkedIn

BEYOND OUR GRASP. “A number of years ago we stumbled on the present minimal viscosity explanation for the linear resistivity, playing with the black holes. The qualitative nature of the physics at work is however stunningly different from anything in the condensed matter textbooks. At first encounter, the claims may sound outrageous. The electron fluid in the strange metal is claimed to be governed by hydrodynamics, it flows like water.” https://lnkd.in/dqysHFG View in LinkedIn