waiting for the eclipse / lincoln's inn fields

beyond the north wind...
gelid
algid

carpaccio / augustine / anachronism

https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/people/faculty/nagel_PDFs/Toward_a_New_Model_lq.pdf

anthropometry

 

NEGENTROPY

Willard Gibbs’ 1873 available energy (free energy) graph, which shows a plane perpendicular to the axis of v (volume) and passing through point A, which represents the initial state of the body. MN is the section of the surface of dissipated energy. Qε and Qη are sections of the planes η = 0 and ε = 0, and therefore parallel to the axes of ε (internal energy) and η (entropy) respectively. AD and AE are the energy and entropy of the body in its initial state, AB and AC its available energy (Gibbs free energy) and its capacity for entropy (the amount by which the entropy of the body can be increased without changing the energy of the body or increasing its volume) respectively.

In a note to What is Life? Schrödinger explained his use of this phrase.

“

[...] if I had been catering for them [physicists] alone I should have let the discussion turn on free energy instead. It is the more familiar notion in this context. But this highly technical term seemed linguistically too near to energy for making the average reader alive to the contrast between the two things.

”

Indeed, negentropy has been used by biologists as the basis for purpose or direction in life, namely cooperative or moral instincts.

#archmf

"Waiting as working" is one of the strongest legacies cinema has as a political and social mechanism,
aut

Elsaesser: 5 types of energy-movement in cinema.

http://www.thomas-elsaesser.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=41&Itemid=72

hetoimasia

what time is it anyway?

the end

butades' daughter paints penelope into a corner

artefact/ the cactus tree motel

inter-être

Philip Armstrong's text on waiting for tear gas / Allan Sekula

In photographing the Seattle demonstrations my working idea was to move with the flow of protest, from dawn to 3 a.m. if need be, taking in the lulls, the waiting and the margin of events. The rule of thumb for this sort of anti-journalism: no flash, no telephoto lens, no gas mask, no auto-focus, no press pass and no pressure to grab at all costs the one defining image of dramatic violence.

Later, working at the light-table, and reading the increasingly stereotypical descriptions of the new face of protest, I realized all the more that a simple descriptive physiognomy was warranted. The alliance on the streets was indeed stranger, more varied and inspired than could be conveyed by the cute alliterative play with “teamsters” and “turtles.

I hoped to describe the attitudes of people waiting, unarmed, sometimes deliberately naked in the winter chill, for the gas and the rubber bullets and the concussion grenades. There were moments of civic solemnity, of urban anxiety, and of carnival.

Again, something very simple is missed by descriptions of this as a movement founded in cyberspace: the human body asserts itself in the city streets against the abstraction of global capital. There was a strong feminist dimension to this testimony, and there was also a dimension grounded in the experience of work. It was the men and women who work on the docks, after all, who shut down the flow of metal boxes from Asia, relying on individual knowledge that there is always another body on the other side of the sea doing the same work, that all this global trade is more than a matter of a mouse-click.

One fleeting hallucination could not be photographed. As the blast of stun grenades reverberated amidst the downtown skyscrapers, someone with a boom box thoughtfully provided a musical accompaniment: Jimi Hendrix’s mock-hysterical rendition of the American national anthem. At that moment, Hendrix returned to the streets of Seattle, slyly caricaturing the pumped-up sovereignty of the world’s only superpower.

Sekula, Allan. “[white globe to black].” Five Days that Shook the World. Ed. Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, and Allan Sekula. London: Verso, 2000.

waiting / suspended

other spaces

groups

A curia in early Roman times was a subdivision of the people, i.e. more or less a tribe, and with a metonymy it came to mean also the meeting place where the tribe discussed its affairs. Etymologically it is derived from the Old Latin term "co-viria," literally an "association of men."

Capri/ Café Hiddigeigei

„Ich verbringe hier regelmäßig am Nachmittag einige Stunden im Café“, schrieb Benjamin im Juni 1924 an seinen Freund Gershom Scholem und stellte fest: „Mit der Zeit lerne ich in dem Scheffel-Café Hiddigeigei (an dem außer dem Namen nichts unangenehm ist) einen um den anderen kennen.“

via Inselbesucher

don't fence me in

Maryon Wilson Park / between

'… the constant motion in the leaves rendering his landscapes confused and unmeaning… [T]he same objection necessarily applies to all moving objects, which can never be properly delineated without the aid of memory'. Only after it had fallen to the ground was a leaf available for impression, when it rejoined the world of inert things.

Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion p44 commenting on Daguerre's experiments.

waiting for a train

Liz Harrison's birdsong at Deptford Railway Station/ Deptford X

emergency button

turnstile

waiting suspended