Tagged: philosophy
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On Seeing the Planet
What does it mean to see a planet? A philosophical perspective on planetary visualisation, in conversation with Demos, Latour, Morton and Haraway: against every effect of zoom, for details in context and for many ways of seeing.
We Have Pierced the Dark
A revised edition of a 2007 essay on black holes — from Thales fallen down his well to the telescopes that finally photographed the dark — on the gravitational well as both the commandment and the commencement of nature.