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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. (Claude Monet)
The model placed outside the Jane Austen Centre at 40 Gay Street in Bath. It had been raining quite heavily when I took this.
Photo shows D.Psych student Lidija Balaz with Dr Mitchell Byrne. The two have presented at the Aspect’s Autism in Education Conference.
TEDxStuttgart 2017 "New Understanding" am 23. September 2017 in der Phoenixhalle im Römerkastell.
Foto: Martin Naujocks
This photograph was taken at the Understanding Clifford's Tower event which took place at Clifford's Tower and the Hilton Hotel, York, on Sunday 25th January 2015.
Photograph taken by Sam Johnson.
I chose pages I found interesting from the family's collection of ephemera left over as souvenirs from the New York World's Fair 1964-1965 in case you've been away from my photostream for awhile!
Zika was first identified in 1947 in Uganda, and outbreaks have occurred in parts of the world such as Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. The virus, carried by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito (pictured above), has stayed in the tropics and subtropics—but recently; Zika was recorded as being transmitted sexually in the United States. Like most mosquitoes, the Aedes Aegypti mosquito can be found near stagnant water including water found in shower stalls. Blood banks are asking people who have traveled in areas where the Zika virus is present to not donate blood for 28 days. There is no vaccine or medication to treat the Zika virus.
About one in five people exposed to Zika become symptomatic. The symptoms are fever, maculopapular rash (a flat red area on the skin with bumps), arthralgia and sometimes, conjunctivitis. There have also been reported cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Symptoms can be treated by ensuring that our patients get plenty of rest, drink fluids and take Tylenol for fever and pain (do not give aspirin or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to pregnant women).
If you suspect a pregnant female has contracted the Zika virus, let your site medical director (SMD) know immediately so he/she can decide on the next steps, as there has been an increase in the number of babies born with microcephaly to mothers who have contracted the Zika virus. It is a notifiable condition, so the local health department must be informed.
If you have questions, please send your inquiries and questions to AskNursingDepartment@corizonhealth.com.
14 May 2018, Rome Italy - (From Left to Right) Bruno Roelants, ICA Director-General, Ariel Guarco, President International Co-operative Alliance (ICA). Signing Ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU), between FAO and International Co-operative Alliance (ICA).
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
The ACU Respect residential school took place from 18-21 December 2017 at Heriot-Watt University
Malaysia.
Building on the ACU's Respect campaign, the residential school brought together 30 student leaders
from over 20 Commonwealth countries, to help them develop tools to promote and support respect and
understanding in their institutions and beyond.
Read more here: www.acu.ac.uk/events/residential-school-2017/
Hoofprint Workshop is pleased to present UNDERSTANDING OBLIVION, a solo show featuring new work by Aaron Coleman. In a departure from his more traditional printmaking practice, Coleman uses collage and unorthodox materials to assemble a monumental triptych, returning the space to its former state: a chapel. But this is no sanctuary! Hand-painted elements, direct application of rust, and repurposed proofs all coalesce to give the viewer a sense of visual overload: the stuff of existence is tearing apart at the seams.
Aaron S. Coleman is an artist and educator living in Dekalb, Illinois. He makes mixed media prints using mezzotint, lithography, intaglio, relief and serigraphy. He combines imagery from comic books and stained glass windows to raise questions concerning misconstrued belief systems and twisted moral values in our society.
He has exhibited at the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai, China and was invited to participate in the 6th and 7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro in Alijo, Portugal. Aaron’s work can be found in the collections of The University of Colorado, Wichita State University, the Ino-cho Paper Museum in Kochi, Japan, The Yekaterinburg Museum of Art in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Ewing Gallery Collection. Aaron is a husband, a dog lover and a workaholic.
Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch, USA, Ibrahim Kalin, Special Adviser to the President of Turkey, Deputy Secretary-General, Presidency, Eduardo Martinez, President, The UPS Foundation, USA; Global Agenda Council on Humanitarian Response, Falah Mustafa, Minister of Foreign Relations, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq and Raul Rosende, Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Gaziantepe at the World Economic Forum - Special Meeting on Unlocking Resources for Regional Development 2014 / Benedikt von Loebell
Greater Ozarks Red Cross Director of Emergency Services Chris Harmon and MSSU President Dr. Bruce W. Speck sign a Memorandum of Understanding outlining framework for cooperation between the University and the Greater Ozarks Chapter of the American Red Cross to provide emergency preparedness and response services on a local, state, regional and national level, including providing training and granting the use of MSSU facilities during a disaster. (Photo by Marie Colby, Red Cross Volunteer)
Understanding the Essence of Flowers - Exploring Pollen 12-14th
June, 2013, Helsinki
Photo: Tommi Taipale
Reg: VN-A607
Aircraft: Airbus A321-271N
Airline: VietJetAir
Serial #: 8790
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Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
Neun Linzer Museen luden unter dem Motto „1 Ticket – 9 Museen – 4 Tage“ während der Semesterferien zu Führungen, Workshops und Sonderveranstaltungen ein. Im Ars Electronica Center gab es Workshops für Kinder aller Altersstufen, verschiedene Themenführungen durch die Ausstellungen und bildgewaltige Präsentationen im weltweit einzigartigen Deep Space 8K.
Foto: Ars Electronica / Birgit Cakir
Similar to the previous slides except for one thing - I took both halves of the picture myself with my camera (they were actually cast off images that I discarded while trying to take the images for the 73 bus pic below)
I made the pic in exatly the same way as I did every other half-card that I have ever made - I put the two on top of each other then cut, then stuck the two halves together.
If anything, this is a little more perfect as the edges fit together nicely, the buses are the same number (albeit going in different directions) and the road is in the same perpective.
But to me this isn't mailart. It's not art at all, it's just a really crap shot, joined to another really crap shot with some Scotch tape. A waste of perfectly good Scotch if you ask me.
But why? What makes one work a work of art and another a piece of crap?
In my opinion the answer lies in the concept of added value. By putting in the work in the case of the 73 bus, I took a pretty damn bland picture, taken at least 15 years ago (and still on sale in London Souvenir shops, despite the Routemaster Bus having been phased out on London streets) and made it more interesting. I've added value to the viewer.
To me that's what art is about. It's the addition of a value to an object, but the value itself is the subjective quantity. This particular piece was not worth much on it's own, and when cut in half and stuck together the overall effect is no more satisfying (to me) than it was in the first place. No artistic merit in my opinion, and at a push, tantamount to candalism
Getting an Understanding of existing digital innovations used by ASBEF for adoption in Project ANY. Here we are having a deep dive into ASBEF digital platform for data collection.
Photo Credits: Planned Parenthood Global - Africa Regional Office
IPSOS is using biometric belts that have been strapped onto consumers' chests in order to understand human reactions in their truest form. More simply, they are measuring the response to stimuli through the nervous system.
Biometrics is a branch of neuroscience that takes the measurement of emotions to a whole new level. It allows marketers to understand the additional dimensions of unconscious consumer responses in their day-to-day decision making, ultimately leading to stronger end results and a greater understanding of how brands and advertising are connecting with people in their everyday lives.