Gary Hall
Gary Hall

@garyhall@hcommons.social

New media philosopher and experimental writer, editor and publisher. Professor Emeritus of Media @ Coventry University. Co-founder and co-director, Open Humanities Press.

Books include: Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal; Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artifical Creative Intelligence; A Stubborn Fury; Pirate Philosophy; The Uberfication of the University; Digitize This Book!; Culture in Bits.

Liked this piece of book art at the Quantum Entangled exhibition at the Science Gallery in #london. It highlights the #artistic and poetic language underpinning the #science in Dynamics of Dark Energy by Edmund Copeland et al.

london.sciencegallery.com/quan

But the exhibition as a whole was disappointing. Although not inaccessible, it’s quite vague, making it's hard to see how anyone who doesn’t already have a grounding in #quantum physics would come away much the wiser.

Like many exhibitions at the gallery, it felt contextless. Despite the instructional #videos and interactive installations – often seemingly aimed at the intelligent teenager as the ideal visitor – it's difficult to discern from this what is actually so significant or exciting about quantum physics to anyone outside anglo-saxon philosophy of science.

Far, far better to read The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton. Can’t recommend that book highly enough.

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