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‘Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know’ follows researchers with the Event Horizon Telescope and other physicists working to understand black holes.

This event has passed. Free Virtual Exhibit Opening and Moderated Panel Discussion: Freud’s Drawings and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis February 17 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm In this panel discussion, marking the opening of the online exhibition The Interpretation of Drawings: Freud and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis, noted Freud scholars explore the role of Freud’s drawings and art collection in the development of his psychoanalytic theories, and provide new insights into the man and mind behind some of the most influential and debated therapeutic techniques ever developed. MODE...

Authors: Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison

The machine they built is hungry. As far back as 2016, Facebook’s engineers could brag that their creation ‘ingests trillions of data points every day’ and produces ‘more than 6 million predictions per second’. Undoubtedly Facebook’s prediction engines are even more potent now, making relentless conjectures about your brand loyalties, your cravings, the arc of your desires. The company’s core market is what the social psychologist Shoshana Zuboff describes as ‘prediction products’: guesses about the future, assembled from ever-deeper forays into our lives and minds, and sold...

2015--Andrea Recalde, Hobart, New York 2015--Charlie Blanchard, San Francisco, California Back 2010--Angelique Pierre, Port-au-Prince, Haiti As a means of arriving at a more critical and focused view of the dense capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti I sought to define a tangible image of the social and spatial conditions around the infrastructural systems linking the city through water distribution, the program of the latrine, and, subsequently, that of the market. Upon arriving in Port-au-Prince the greatest challenge was to read the internal logic of the city, as there were see...