Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Sunday, January 22, 2023

And the Rabbit's Name Was...

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Chinese New Year on 22 January 2023 marked the start of the Year of the Rabbit, reminding me of the Chinese legend of there being a rabbit o...
Friday, December 04, 2020

Everybody is a Star! - Disconaut Association of Autonomous Astronauts (numbers one and two)

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Once upon a time I was Neil Disconaut, with my partner Juleigh Disconaut we constituted the Disconaut node of the Association of Autonomous ...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Summer Solstice 1999: Autonomous Astronauts on Parliament Hill

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 June 1999 was arguably the high point of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts in its UK zone of operations. It was then that the AAA ...
Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Abu Simbel 2005 by Ellen Gallagher

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I caught the last day of Ellen Gallagher's AxME exhibition at Tate Modern on Sunday. Particularly taken with this Sun Ra homage: ...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Gerry Anderson Fashions

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The death this week of Gerry Anderson has sparked an outpouring of nostalgia from those brought up on his TV programmes in the 1960s and 197...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

The Star Trek Myth: towards a historical materialist critique

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The following text is still one of the best things I've read on Star Trek. It was originally published in a magazine called Melancholic ...
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Peace dreams shot down by war schemes - RIP Gil Scott-Heron

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Sad to hear of the death yesterday of Gil Scott-Heron. Among many other things, he was a consistent critic of the Space-Military-Industrial ...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Mission Accomplished but the Beat goes on

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Today is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's trip into space, the first human to leave the planet's atmosphere - and the first to...