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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Science Traces on Mars

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM

The trace...

NASA/JPL

Alain Badiou:

When I say that the subject is a relation between an event and the world we have to understand that as an indirect relation between something of the event and something of the world. The relation, finally, is between a trace and the body. I call trace 'what subsists in the world when the event disappears.' It's something of the event, but not the event as such; it is the trace, a mark, a symptom. And on the other side, the support of the subject—the reality of the subject in the world—I call 'a new body.' So we can say that the subject is always a new relation between a trace and a body. It is the construction in a world, of a new body, and jurisdiction—the commitment of a trace; and the process of the relationship between the trace and the body is, properly, the new subject.

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Seeing all these mundane photographs from Mars feels like seeing photographs from a desert in Mongolia, or from Antarctica. In other words, Mars now feels to me like it's just another distant place I've never been in, almost like an extension of Planet Earth. That quantum gap that existed between the planets now is gone. The Solar System is just like America, or Earth. It's just a larger place that includes us. There's no mystical difference now between us and Mars, any more than there is between my home and the top of a mountain.

Posted by floater on August 30, 2012 at 10:33 AM

Faded photographs,
Covered now with lines and creases,
Tickets torn in half,
Memories and bits and pieces,

Traces [on Marrrrssss...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyxpQO0YY…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on August 30, 2012 at 10:37 AM

@1 if you want to see some Tartars and beautiful scenery, you should go see Flying Swords of Dragon Gate when it comes out in IMAX 3D for one week only.

They literally had a team of people doing some of the locales.

Excellent movie, and they almost went to Mars when the giant dragon tornado hit.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 30, 2012 at 11:11 AM

@3 Meh. I don't know if I'm drawn enough to exotic locales spend the effort and money to see it on IMAX. I'm okay with the occasional photograph on the web.

Posted by floater on August 30, 2012 at 11:25 AM