A5001567732- Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
- Art, Politics, and Modernism
- Visual Culture and Art Theory
- History and Developments in Astronomy
- Anarchism and Radical Politics
- Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
- Art, Technology, and Culture
- Islamic Studies and History
- Artistic and Creative Research
- Photography and Visual Culture
- French Literature and Poetry
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
- Engineering Education and Pedagogy
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- Digital Games and Media
- Historical and Architectural Studies
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Communism, Protests, Social Movements
- Byzantine Studies and History
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
Bucknell University
2007-2020
Royal Observatory in Greenwich
1841
This project, INGE – The Earth’s Interior Through Geophysics, introduces students to the Earth's internal structure, fostering curiosity and providing a foundation for understanding geophysical concepts across educational stages. Initially designed younger before they reach upper secondary education, project highlights scalable approach ensure its future relevance diverse age groups.The project’s core objective is deliver engaging lessons about...
Fluxus, or the Work of Art in Age Information Roger Rothman (bio) Fluxus Over past two decades, critical and historical understanding has shifted dramatically. Upon its emergence early sixties, it confronted criticism as little more than a belated rehabilitation Dadaist provocation.1 In time, however, reception changed to such degree that is now widely hailed crucial precursor conceptual performative practices late sixties seventies.2 Indeed, today typically presented most politically...
Against Critique: Fluxus and the Hacker Aesthetic Roger Rothman (bio) Imagine a gallery with four works on display. On one side of room, television, turned its side, sits plinth. From outside, it looks like an ordinary TV, but internal components have been transformed wires manipulated so that, when plugged into active electrical socket, all that produces is single, vertical white line down middle screen (see figure 1). Near second, wider plinth, rests set three ping-pong paddles. Each has...
This essay examines Surrealism in light of the realist turn contemporary philosophy. Drawing on Graham Harman's writings object-oriented ontology, argues that Surrealist interest objects (articulated most famously by Walter Benjamin) is best apprehended not through André Breton and Georges Bataille, but rather those Salvador Dalí. The demonstrates despite their long-catalogued differences, are united adhering to an anti-realist ontology which world only ever comprehended relation subject's...
Dalí's Inauthenticity Roger Rothman (bio) Having been the only essay primarily devoted to visual arts, my paper was something of an outlier. Nonetheless, conversation came around a few times practice and more generally question how integrate historical accounts literary visual. The that follows does not attempt this difficult work, but it seems me place begin is with evaluation determinative properties canonization. In seminar, I proposed that, despite evident reality multiple modernisms...
Abstract For much of his life, André Breton was deeply ambivalent about what to make Paul Valéry. Early in career, he drawn Valéry's symbolist poetics and went so far as dedicate a poem him 1913. The two became friends the younger poet looked older mentor critic. Even more than poetry, however, it prose piece, An Evening with Monsieur Teste (1896), that most fascinated early years (he practically knew by heart, once remarked). And continued fascinate for rest life. Decades later, remarked:...
Anarchism and the Hermeneutics of Faith Roger Rothman (bio) M. Proudhon has misfortune being peculiarly misunderstood in Europe. In France, he right to be a bad economist, because is reputed good German philosopher. Germany, philosopher, one ablest French economists. Being both economist at same time, we desire protest against this double error. —Karl Marx, foreword The Poverty Philosophy, 1847 Even more than attacks on it from right, been left that have relegated anarchism margins academic...
The binary opposition that is said to hold between an enthusiastic, future-oriented avant-garde and a melancholic, past-oriented traditionalism deserves be re-examined. This essay aims complicate this binarism by highlighting moment within the history of modernism when enthusiasm regarding future fused with melancholy past. Both Guillaume Apollinaire Francis Picabia were deeply committed discourse new, yet number their works in years after 1912 harbour ambivalence compels us rethink simple...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. 1. Maurice Denis, »Définition du néo-traditionnisme«, Art et critique (Paris 23 August 1890). Reprinted in Théories; 1890–1910, Rouart Watelin, Paris, 1920. 2. James Thrall Soby, René Magritte, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 7–8. In a letter Magritte wrote: »It was 1922 when I first came know the works de Chirico. A friend then showed me reproduction his painting, The Song...
Reviewed by: The Ideas, Identity and Art of Daniel Spoerri: Contingencies Encounters an ‘Artistic Animator’ by Leda Cempellin Roger Rothman Animator’. Cempellin. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $58.00 (cloth). I suspect that Spoerri is not a household name among readers Modernism/modernity. This shame because he was artist especially attuned to the sorts interdisciplinarity this journal takes as its core concern. He began his career dancer, then turned poetry, object production....