Das Museum für zeitgenössische Natur

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2020) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Coccia
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Art And Society

Im letzten Jahrhundert hat sich das Museum von einer Institution, die sich auf die Vergangenheit und ihre Bewahrung konzentriert, zu einem Instrument der Wahrsagerei über die Zukunft von Kunst und Gesellschaft gewandelt. Der Aufsatz schlägt vor, ebenso die Museen für Naturgeschichte zu transformieren und für das Konzept einer Zeitgenossenschaft der Natur mit den entsprechenden Untersuchungsinstrumenten zu öffnen, sodass sie sich zu neuen Museen für zeitgenössische Natur entwickeln können. During the last century, art museums evolved from institutions focussing on the past and its preservation to instruments of soothsaying about the future of art and society. This article suggests transforming museums for natural history in the same way, introducing them to the concept of a contemporaneity of nature via proper investigative tools in order to help outdated museums transforming into modern institutions, showcasing contemporary nature.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Water and the processes driven by water are often essential in defining how we identify different regions, as well as issues across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Water in Kentucky: Natural History, Communities, and Conservation is about the past, present, and some aspects of the future of water in the commonwealth. The volume’s overall objective is to explore the variety of ways water shaped and continues to shape life in Kentucky through telling both the biophysical and the historical and con temporary stories of water’s impact. By reading this book, you should gain an improved understanding of the role water had and continues to play in each of our daily lives....

Collaboration with the Past, Collaboration for the Future: Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula’s Makarr-garma Exhibition

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Rebecca Conway
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
Research Fellowship ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

AbstractThe Yolŋu elder and academic Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula curated the exhibition, Makarr-garma: Aboriginal Collections from a Yolŋu Perspective (Makarr-garma), staged at the University of Sydney’s Macleay Museum from 29 November 2009 to 15 May 2010. This article describes this exhibition’s development and curatorial rationale. A product of his 2007 Australian Research Council (ARC) Indigenous Research Fellowship at the University, Makarr-garma reflected Gumbula’s Yolŋu philosophies as applied to collections in the Gallery, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector. Employing artworks, cultural objects, historic photographs, natural history specimens and his own manikay (songs), he framed this show as a garma (open) ceremonial performance that spanned an archetypal Yolŋu day. The exhibition was immersive and “culturally resonant” (Gilchrist, Indigenising), and provides intellectual and practical insights for the GLAM sector’s representation and management of Indigenous collections.

Bodies, Books, Histories

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Susanna Elm
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pliny The Elder ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

In his City of God, Augustine intermittently discussed extra-ordinary bodies, such as persons with one eye in the centre of their forehead or only one cubit tall called pygmies. Taking his cues from Pliny the Elder and Solinus, who include such bodies to discuss the marvellous in natural history, Augustine, this chapter argues, used such bodies to discuss what history means: what do such bodies tell those who know how to read them about history, the present, and the future, especially on those occasions when the one history Augustine considers universal, Scripture, is silent? Bodies carry great heuristic weight in Augustine’s oeuvre and these extra-ordinary bodies are no exception. Indeed, the way that Augustine thinks about such bodies, those of the past, the present and the future, illuminates how he seeks to ‘create’ new bodies for a new Christian Rome.

On the assembly and structural modulation of lens fiber junctions

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
E.L. Benedetti ◽  
I. Dunia ◽  
Do Ngoc Lien ◽  
O. Vallon ◽  
D. Louvard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Intercellular Junctions ◽  
Eye Lens ◽  
Membrane Domains ◽  
Functional Polymorphism ◽  
Lens Fiber ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structural Modulation ◽  
Biochemical Difference

In the eye lens emerging molecular and structural patterns apparently cohabit with the remnants of the past. The lens in a rather puzzling fashion sums up its own natural history and even transient steps of the differentiation are memorized. A prototype of this situation is well outlined by the study of the lenticular intercellular junctions. These membrane domains exhibit structural, biochemical and perhaps functional polymorphism reflecting throughout life the multiple steps of the differentiation of the epithelium into fibers and of the ageing process of the lenticular cells.The most striking biochemical difference between the membrane derived from the epithelium and from the fibers respectively, concerns the presence of the 26,000 molecular weight polypeptide (MP26) in the latter membranes.

Integrative Action: The Past for Physiology, the Future for Psychology

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-231
Author(s):  
MARCEL KINSBOURNE
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
The Future
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