The internet, meanwhile, tends to both homogenize art and silo audiences by algorithm. Three years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent George Floyd rebellion, the arts seem stagnant and stubbornly centralized: franchise fare dominates at the box office literary output is hampered by monopolized publishers even the obsession with so-called nepo babies suggests a cultural bloodline without disruption. But today - despite an alleged “polycrisis” - new modes of cultural production don’t seem to be emerging. It’s commonplace to note that sociopolitical upheaval and artistic experimentation often flourish side by side. Leave a comment What Happened to the Avant-Garde? Hawking’s discovery of black-hole evaporation has presented theoretical physicists with a huge conundrum: general relativity says that black holes must destroy information quantum mechanics says it cannot happen because information must live on eternally. The radiation merely carries data for the total mass, charge and angular momentum of the matter that collapsed every other detail about anything that fell into the black hole is irretrievably lost. In this way, black holes slowly evaporate, but the process erases all knowledge about the black hole’s formation. It eventually reemerges in a wind of particles – ‘Hawking radiation’ – that leaks away from the event horizon, the black hole’s outer physical boundary. Whatever falls into a black hole disappears from the rest of the Universe. Forty years ago, Stephen Hawking demonstrated that black holes destroy information for good. There is only one apparent exception to this reassuring concept: according to our current physical understanding, information cannot survive an encounter with a black hole. The relations between the atoms, the uncountable particulars that made you you, will remain forever preserved, albeit in unrecognisably scrambled form – lost in practice, but immortal in principle. But according to the laws of quantum mechanics, all of the information about your body’s build and function will prevail.
Leave a comment TikTok Extends the WastelandĪfter you die, your body’s atoms will disperse and find new venues, making their way into oceans, trees and other bodies. 4, an immersive blend of writerly advice and career retrospective that sets down lessons McPhee has been teaching at Princeton University since the 1970s, will recall the intricate diagrams of his New Yorker essays, and the arduous process by which he arrived at their elegant structures.
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Legions of McPhee fans will need a moment to pick themselves up off the floor. You can always go back to the first thing next week.” And if something distracts you, if it seems more interesting, leave the first thing, and go to the second or the third. It was, however, done according to Twain’s instructions for “how someone ought to do an autobiography-in a totally random miscellaneous way.” McPhee continues, “Twain’s point is just to jump in anywhere, anywhere at all, and start talking. On the phone from his home in Princeton, N.J., on an unseasonably warm day in April, McPhee stresses that Tabula Rasa, which gathers the 92-year-old New Yorker writer’s reflections on projects he once contemplated but never wrote, is not an autobiography.
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