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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

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

ONE WAY MEMBERSHIP. “Like other kinds of what it is to be social, being a member of the multitude is not something that one can or easily want to leave: attempts to disconnect always end in failure. In some ways, membership of the multitude may feel like being part of traditional collective or crowd.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE MULTITUDE. “It is an essential vehicle for acknowledging the state of digital memory as transcendent of the traditional imaginary, or rather delimitation, of the collective as a usefully distinct and locatable form of memory. “ https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ 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