from the surface of a comet

source:
livescience.com/62394-comet-snow-rosetta-twitter.html

This clip is made up of 25 minutes worth of images from ESA’s Philae lander, and was processed by Twitter user landru79. (Image credit: ESA/landru79)

Look at this amazing GIF. That snowy-looking scene wasn’t captured on Mount Everest, or in some canyon in Antarctica. That’s the view from a lander on the surface of a comet.

Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.

As several astronomers and casual observers pointed out in the replies to landru79’s original tweet, the “snowstorm” depicted almost certainly isn’t a true snowfall of the sort experienced on Earth and other planets. Instead, there are likely two or three different phenomena creating the snowy effect.

Up close to the camera, dust particles backlit by the sun are likely moving around, mimicking the look of snow on Earth. Cosmic rays may also be creating snow-like artifacts on the images. And those dots in the background, that appear to be falling straight down and disappearing behind the cliff? Those appear to be stars, which look like they’re falling because the comet is rotating as it orbits the sun every 6.5 years.

 

“tutto qua”: notilla sul pacchiano e il banale nella poesia italiana contemporanea

antonio syxty incontra “scritture anomale”, saggio di gilda policastro (mimesis, 2021)

“La Finestra di Antonio Syxty” incontra Gilda Policastro e il suo ultimo libro L’ultima poesia. Scritture anomale e mutazioni di genere dal secondo Novecento a oggi (Mimesis edizioni, 2021)

mimesisedizioni.it/libro/9788857563831

 

carlo bordini: english translations (and original italian texts) in “gestures” / “i gesti”

https://www.bookrepublic.it/ebook/9788864384450-gestures-editrice-zona-quintadicopertina/

Questa silloge di testi attraversa la produzione di un autore che sfugge a (ed è in) tutte le categorie note: è un realista, ma saldamente onirico, fa scrittura di ricerca, ma volentieri è lirico, o epigrammatico, ossia classico, citabile memorabile; è un poeta giocoso, un ritrattista, e narratore, un dada, ma quasi confessional. Gli manca l’epica? No, suggeriva Roberto Roversi scrivendo di lui. Bordini appartiene al numero indefinibile ma non amplissimo di autori che con maestria e dolcezza – e con il bizzarro rigore che la dolcezza implica – hanno praticato, specie a Roma, una felice libertà sintattica nel narrare, una modalità/tonalità di – vigile e politica – “loose writing”.

MG
(2013)

This collection of texts explores the production of an author who defies, yet covers, all categories. A realist, yet fully a dreamer, he explores experimental writing, is at times lyrical, epigrammatic, classic and quotable. He is a playful poet, a portrait maker, a storyteller, an almost confessional dada. Is epic missing? Writing of him, Roberto Roversi says not. Bordini belongs to an indefinite but not wide number of mainly Roman authors who have practised complete syntactic freedom – with craftsmanship and gentleness, and the quirky severity that gentleness implies – and a mode/tone of vigilant and political «loose writing».

Marco Giovenale
(2013)

ed. Zona / Quintadicopertina

TEXTS IN ITALIAN & ENGLISH

surrealism beyond borders

Sandro Ricaldone

SURREALISM BEYOND BORDERS
Edited by Stephanie D’Alessandro and Matthew Gale
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021

Challenging conventional narratives of a revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement, this publication traces Surrealism’s influence and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as geographically diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey. The catalogue includes more than 300 works of art in a variety of media by well-known figures—including Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, and Miró—as well as numerous artists who are less widely known.

Contributions from more than forty distinguished international scholars explore the network of Surrealist exchange and collaboration, artists’ responses to the challenges of social and political unrest, and the experience of displacement and exile in the twentieth century. The multiple narratives addressed in this expansive book move beyond the borders of history, geography, and nationality to provocatively redraw the map of Surrealism.

Stephanie D’Alessandro is the Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Senior Research Coordinator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matthew Gale is Senior Curator at Larger at Tate Modern.

26 novembre, un’opera @ macro: giuseppe garrera su jannis kounellis

Jannis Kounellis, Senza Titolo, 12 cavalli
Con Giuseppe Garrera, 26 novembre 2021, ore 18:30

Museo Macro, via Nizza 138, Roma

Un’opera è un formato di AGORÀ sviluppato in collaborazione con Giuseppe Garrera, nel quale il musicologo, storico dell’arte e collezionista analizzerà filologicamente un’opera a sua scelta per ogni incontro.

14 gennaio 1969. All’Attico di Roma Jannis Kounellis espone 12 cavalli vivi. Si parla di atto provocatorio, di gesto dada, di snobismo intellettuale, per i più di una cosa anche disgustosa e nauseante per il puzzo e l’ingombro e il rischio di prendersi un calcio.

12 cavalli vivi in mostra. Questa è l’opera? Si comprano? Ma soprattutto, cosa significano?

Claudio Cintoli, nella sua recensione all’evento, parla, semplicemente, di una liberazione.

Giuseppe Garrera dal 2013 è coordinatore scientifico del Master in Economia e Management dell’Arte e dei Beni culturali della 24ORE Business School di Roma.

L’incontro si svolgerà presso l’auditorium. Ingresso gratuito fino a esaurimento posti.