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QUASI ARCHIVES. “As Van House and Churchill observe: “Archives sit in the boundary between public and private. Current archives extend well beyond a person, a space, an institution, a nation state. They are socio-technical systems, neither entirely social nor technical.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

HYPERCONNECTED ARCHIVES. “The archives of a broadcast era mass media, once trapped in the archival space of a vault or library subject to the material conditions of order, classification, and retrieval, are rendered fluid through their hyperconnectivity.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE ARCHIVE AS MEDIA. “Indeed, today, the archive can be seen as a medium in its own right, as it has been liberated from ‘archival space into archival time’. The notion of the archive as static is replaced by the much more fluid temporalities and dynamics of ‘permanent data transfer’, defining the new memory ecology.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this small sampling of a much larger chapter by Professor Andrew Hoskins. In my view, it is a remarkably insightful portrayal of the wrenching social changes the digital age is foisting at breakneck speed on us, our children, and (sadly) our politics. Personally, I find it is all happening too quickly with too little wise commentary to wrap my arms around these events, from flash mobs to the ubiquitous screen. This author is a great start to figuring it out a bit better. View in LinkedIn

WITHOUT END. “The multitude appears as stronger than previous collectives as it is afforded carte blanche to keep the ‘conversation’ going: there is literally no ending.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

NEUTRON STAR MERGERS. “Its contents form a spiral shape surrounding the merger while the larger star continues to get heavier. It grows, becoming more massive, soaking in the superdense material of the erupted star until it can no longer hold itself up against gravity. The star wavers, but finally succumbs into a black hole.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

SHITSTORM. “In one of the most violent events in the universe, two neutron stars are gravitationally latched onto one another. They perform a cosmic dance where immense forces draw them together and deform their once neat, round bodies into gnarled and oblong shapes. It takes only a few milliseconds — less than the blink of an eye — for their crusts to shatter open and the less massive star to burst in a gory mess of material.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

THE POND. “By looking for ripples in the fabric of space-time, scientists could soon detect "strange stars" — objects made of stuff radically different from the particles that make up ordinary matter.” https://lnkd.in/dtC2gzg View in LinkedIn

STRANGE QUARK DWARFS, (no really). “The researchers noted that strange planets might also orbit what appear to be white dwarfs — the remnants of normal stars that have burned all the hydrogen fuel in their cores — but are actually strange quark dwarfs. They found five exoplanets around white dwarfs orbiting suspiciously close to these stellar remnants, suggesting that they might also be strange planets.” https://lnkd.in/dhCeUnA View in LinkedIn

The toe-nibbler pretending to be serene. View in LinkedIn