The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, founded in 1856, was a veterinary and agricultural science university in Copenhagen, Denmark, until its merger with the University of Copenhagen in 2007. Surrounding the buildings, designed by Gottlieb Bindesbøll, are its unique gardens, which house a diverse collection of over 6,000 plants and flowers. Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer… Continue reading ‘Flora Excursoria Hafniensis’
Viktor Shklovsky: On Flax from ‘On Freedom of Art’, The Third Factory, 1926
Flax, if it had a voice, would be screaming while processed. It’s grabbed by the head and pulled out of the ground. Roots and all. It’s sown thickly for self-suppression, so that it grows stunted and does not branch out. Flax needs oppression. It’s pulled around. It’s spread-eagled on the fields, and elsewhere soaked in… Continue reading Viktor Shklovsky: On Flax from ‘On Freedom of Art’, The Third Factory, 1926
The Meaning of “The Time Is Out of Joint” in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
This started out as a photo of the coastline of Sweden seen from Hellerup, Denmark, in a somewhat dystopian light punctuated by the distant silhouette of the Barsebäck nuclear power plant. Initially, the photo was titled ‘Last Day of March,’ after someone near by said, ‘This looks like the end of everything.’ While reading Jacques… Continue reading The Meaning of “The Time Is Out of Joint” in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Light / The Artificiality of Art / Degas’ Obsession
The oldest light we can observe, the cosmic microwave background radiation, is nearly 14 billion years old. One of the defining traits of light is that it cannot truly be owned, at least not yet. In a sense, trees can archive light temporarily through photosynthesis and transform it into chemical energy. A line can be… Continue reading Light / The Artificiality of Art / Degas’ Obsession
Glossary of a Triptych: Glossematics and Heteroglossia
Table of contents Sun: A Triptych for the Solar Eclipse Grammar and Semantics Core Structure: Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs Structure of the 2011 Grid From 12 to 432 to the Perfect 72 The Fourth Adverb Closed the Gap Singular Versus Plural Verbs in the 2011 Version 2011 Vocabulary The 2026 Vocabulary The Deictic Cell Anchoring Using… Continue reading Glossary of a Triptych: Glossematics and Heteroglossia
Garden of the Royal Danish Library in Light Snowfall
Light snowfall over the Garden of the Royal Danish Library (also known as The Royal Library Gardens), which was designed in 1920 by architects Jens Peder Andersen and Thorvald Jørgensen. The Garden of the Royal Danish Library, one of the oldest university library gardens in Europe, known as Det Kongelige Biblioteks Have in Danish, or… Continue reading Garden of the Royal Danish Library in Light Snowfall
‘Objects for an Ideal Home’
The ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’ series is inspired by a 1999 music album, in the electronica genre, as it was labeled in the mid-90s, by that name. ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’ was produced and released by the Danish musician Opiate (Thomas Knak) on the record label April Records. In 2009, a 20th anniversary… Continue reading ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’
