Resisters

Research Questions: What aesthetic approaches may I adopt in my cinematic practice against the background of the looming climate catastrophe and economic crisis of global capitalism? How may I bring the past into the present without recourse to extensive exposition and archive footage? How might I move spectators to act in response to what they see and hear on screen

Subject, memory and place: Jill Daniels in conversation with Matthias Kispert

Jill Daniels' essay films Not Reconciled and Breathing Still were recently screened at a HyphenConversations event at the University of Westminster. Not Reconciled, located in Belchite in northern Spain,explores the trauma of the Spanish Civil War. The project emerged from her PhD research at the Universityof East London. In Breathing Still, Daniels’ voiced flaneuse addresses the memory of Rosa Luxemburg asshe roams Berlin’s streets and the city’s memorials while contemplating the rise of nationalisms past andpresent

Dwoskin and Me: Halting the Flow of Time

In this article I discuss the three experimental autobiographical films that Stephen Dwoskin made between 1994 and 2003; Trying to kiss the moon (1994), Friends (apart) (2002) and Francis in Memorium (2003). I first met Dwoskin at the Royal College of Art film school in London where I was a student in the 1970s and he was a part-time tutor. We were both Jewish with very different personal histories and experiences, but after I left the RCA he became a close personal friend. As a disabled American ex-patriat man he spent most of his adult life looking at the world through a camera lens, filming his friends and lovers, building an archive of footage that form part of these films, supplemented by the extensive home-movie footage filmed by his father, Henry, a carpenter. My analysis of his films is therefore coloured by my own personal recollections of him

[Review of] St. Clair Drake. Black Folk Here and There , vol. I

St. Clair Drake, the recently deceased anthropologist, has written an elaborate summary essay on the black experience as it relates to the continent of Africa. In his latter years at Stanford University, Drake was head of the University\u27s Black Studies program. It appears obvious that Drake\u27s consciousness was raised during this particular time span. The research and writing of this book is far different from his seminal work with Clayton (Black Metropolis, 1945). In his emeritus years, Drake decided to seek the high ground of an historical anthropological-philosopher and address certain issues that W.E.B. DuBois considered paramount to the study of black people throughout the diaspora

Data Management Study, Volume 5. Appendix H - Contractor Data Package Logistics and Support /LS/ Final Report

Contractor data package for Voyager logistics and support in transportation, communications, supply, and maintenanc

Data management study, volume 5. Appendix F - Contractor data package test /TE/ and mission operations /MP/ Final report

Test and mission operations contractor data package for Voyager spacecraf

Propagating Waves in a Monolayer of Gas-Fluidized Rods

We report on an observation of propagating compression waves in a quasi-two-dimensional monolayer of apolar granular rods fluidized by an upflow of air. The collective wave speed is an order of magnitude faster than the speed of the particles. This gives rise to anomalously large number fluctuations dN ~ $N^{0.72 \pm 0.04}$, which are greater than ordinary number fluctuations of N^{1/2}. We characterize the waves by calculating the spatiotemporal power spectrum of the density. The position of observed peaks, as a function of frequency w and wavevector k, yields a linear dispersion relationship in the long-time, long-wavelength limit and a wavespeed c = w/k. Repeating this analysis for systems at different densities and air speeds, we observe a linear increase in the wavespeed with increasing packing fraction with no dependence on the airflow. Although air-fluidized rods self-propel individually or in dilute collections, the parallel and perpendicular root-mean-square speeds of the rods indicate that they no longer self-propel when propagating waves are present. Based on this mutual exclusivity, we map out the phase behavior for the existence of waves vs self-propulsion as a function of density and fluidizing airflow