Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
Click Here to Read: Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order: By chewing on the problems posed by “extremal” black holes, physicists have exposed a surprising and universal connection between energy and entropy by Natalie Wolchover on the Quanta website on May 28, 2020. Extremal Kerr-Newman black hole Image: Yukterez (Simon Tyran, Vienna)….
Read more...How Red Vienna Revolutionized Sigmund Freud
Click Here to Read: How Red Vienna Revolutionized Sigmund Freud by Phillip Henry on the Jacobin website on on May 28, 2020.
MITPP Online Courses
Click Here for a list of Summer Institute Online Mini-Courses and Workshops. All offerings are approved for contact hours/CEUs.
Read more...Shavuot
Click Here to Read: Holiday Edition: Shavuot on the Tablet website on May 27, 2020. Western Wall, Jerusalem, Shavuot. Image: Daniel Majewski. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Speech, Signifier, Letter with Alain Vanier Online with Après-Coup
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Speech, Signifier, Letter Alain Vanier Saturday, May 30, 2020 10:00 am – 1:00 pm To register, click here. We will study the difference between signifier and letter without overlooking the sign, a notion Lacan rethought at various points of his teaching. Particular attention will be paid to their relation to the act of speech and the subject…
Read more...The Philip Roth Archive
Click Here to Read: The Philip Roth Archive: A fan’s obsessive rummage through the letters and papers of the writer who died two years ago today reveals a playful, funny, brilliant man by Jesse Tisch on the Table website on May 22, 2020.
Read more...YIVO’s “Old Friend and Teacher”: Simon Dubnow and his Relationship to the Yiddish
Click Here to Read: YIVO’s “Old Friend and Teacher”: Simon Dubnow and his Relationship to the Yiddish by Cecile E. Kuznitz from the Scientific Institute Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook XV 2016. Note: The file starts with the Yearbook front matter.
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Read more...Spike Lee and the Battlefield of American History
Click Here to Read: Spike Lee and the Battlefield of American History with his new film, the peerless American filmmaker — self-isolating and eflective in New York — unsettles past and present conflicts by By Reggie Ugwu in the New York Times on May 2…
Read more...Twin Films: Bohemian Rhapsody and Blinded by the Light
Click Here to Read: Twin Films: Bohemian Rhapsody and Blinded by the Light by Herbert H. Stein in the PANY Bulletin in the Spring 2020 Issue.
Read more...Freaky ‘Active’ Object in Jupiter’s Orbit Is First of Its Kind Seen by Astronomers
Click Here to Read: Freaky ‘Active’ Object in Jupiter’s Orbit Is First of Its Kind Seen by Astronomers by George Dvorsky on the Gizmodo website on May 22, 2020. Jupiter. Image: NASA/JPL. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
