Someone set up us the bomb!
Absolutely amazing photos taken by Harold Edgerton microseconds after the atomic bomb testing in Nevada [via]:
(this is seven miles away)
In the Words of Robert Oppenheimer:
(this is seven miles away)In the Words of Robert Oppenheimer:
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that one way or another."On a lighter note, this is a link for those who missed the post title reference (read: not nerds)
posted by shrf at 12:09 AM
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Are you accusing the duly deputized Sheriff of being an atomic bomb?
Perhaps the bomb is that unnamable kernel of the Real, which returns when ... shit.
Big ol fuckin bomb, no doubt about that (as Cornel West would say).
No, really, Cornel West is always saying "no doubt about that." Really.
Looking back, I can say that I was a bit disappointed by Cornel West's talk. I feel like the guy is not just Janus-faced, he's positively Man-E-Faces. I've read articles where he's discussing post-marxist political strategies and anti-foundationalist metaphysics with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau. Should we have expected more perhaps, during his Wash U talk? It felt like a stock civil rights speech, which while delivered passionately seemed like a pulled punch. The guy's got a lot to say.
How interesting...
I don't think that he was trying to be patronizing. I honestly feel that there was general sentiment in the speech he gave, even if it was relatively pre-prepared. I'd like to believe that in any case. It would have been nice to see more from the standpoint of tickling our intellect fetish, but it ultimately falls on a question of audience and purpose (black history month, motley collgege student audience of varying degrees of political committment, &c.). or does it fall on those things? Because Cornell can speak at a level we'd find intellectually stimulating (if not interesting at any other level) should he? Is this the way to excite draw people in to a lecture?
I might have said more on this, but the Keyboards in the Artsci lab frustrate all attempts at typing.
(This might branch into a discussion of talking to the appropriate audience. Scantron, can I get the appropriate citations from Aristotle, Plato, and Demosthenes? I'd like your translations too)
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