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Cetology: how science inspired Moby-Dick
No full textPhilip Hoare tracks the scientific influences and insights that breach throughout Herman Melville's epic novel
Leviathan or the whale
No full textThe story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey – from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching.All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London’s Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales have a mythical quality – they seem to elide with dark fantasies of sea-serpents and antediluvian monsters that swim in our collective unconscious.In ‘Leviathan’, Philip Hoare seeks to locate and identify this obsession. What impelled Melville to write ‘Moby-Dick’? After his book in 1851, no one saw whales in quite the same way again.This book is an investigation into what we know little about – dark, shadowy creatures who swim below the depths, only to surface in a spray of spume. More than the story of the whale, it is also the story of our own obsessions
Telegram, circa 1928, London, to Sir Samuel Hoare, Whitehall
No full textAmelia Earhart telegraph to Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, thanking him for his message, ca. 192
I'll dream fast asleep
No full textThe artist’s book ‘Ellen Gallagher: Accidental Records’ includes new paintings and drawings that continue the artist’s exploration of the complex histories of the Black Atlantic and the afterlives of the Middle Passage. Widely associated with a resurgence in this diasporic critical space, Gallagher has developed her own genre of history painting which makes us question our geographies. The slowly layered surfaces of her work becomes a kind of reckoning, the way sailors mark their locations at sea, determined by return.Alongside views of Gallagher’s artworks and portraits of the artist working in her studio, texts will feature from Adrienne Edwards, curator at Performa and the Walker Art Center, and Philip Hoare, a writer whose books include ‘Leviathan or, the Whale’, ‘The Sea Inside’ and, most recently, ‘RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR’. Edwards will address themes of portraiture and performance while Hoare will consider Gallagher’s work in relation to the greater scope of marine and whaling history
The sea inside
No full textA startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for ‘Leviathan’.The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up in our everyday lives, we barely notice it.In ‘The Sea Inside’, Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds and beasts. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of almost monastic escape. From there he travels to the other side of the world – the Azores, Sri Lanka, New Zealand – in search of encounters with animals and people. Navigating between human and natural history, he asks what these stories mean for us now.Along the way we meet an amazing cast; from scientists to tattooed warriors; from ravens to whales and bizarre creatures that may, or may not, be extinct. Part memoir, part fantastical travelogue, ‘The Sea Inside’ takes us on an astounding journey of discovery
El mar interior
No full textEl mar nos rodea. Nos da vida, nos proporciona el aire que respiramos y la comida que ingerimos. Es el origen de nuestra existencia y el que transporta nuestro comercio. Representa el hogar y la migración, es cambio incesante y presencia constante. Ocupa dos terceras partes de nuestro planeta. Y a pesar de estar presente en nuestras vidas diarias, apenas le damos importancia. En El mar interior, Philip Hoare nos propone redescubrir el mar, sus islas, aves y bestias. Nos sitúa en la costa sur donde creció, un lugar de recuerdos familiares donde la soledad todavía perdura y el océano proporciona una vía de escape. Desde allí viaja al otro extremo del mundo, desde la isla de Wight a las Azores, desde Sri Lanka a Tasmania y Nueva Zelanda, en busca de encuentros con animales y personas –la contraposición de lo salvaje y lo civilizado, lo vivo y lo extinguido. Navegando entre la historia humana y natural, entre la ciencia y el mito, Hoare se cuestiona qué significan sus historias para nosotros ahora, en el siglo veintiuno, cuando el mar nunca ha sido importante para nuestro presente, pasado o futuro. Por el camino conoceremos a personajes espectaculares, desde científicos y artistas excéntricos hasta guerreros tatuados, pasando por cuervos, ballenas y bizarras criaturas que podrían, o no, haberse extinguido. En parte memoir, en parte guía de viajes fantástica, El mar interior nos acompaña en un asombroso viaje de descubrimiento, repleta de asombrosas historias sobre la fe y el miedo, la tierra y la destrucción, la mortalidad y la belleza. Pero sobre todo es una historia sobre la naturaleza y el mar que todos llevamos dentro
Derek Jarman's Modern Nature
No full textThe book is published to coincide with the exhibition, Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature, that draws on Derek Jarman’s extraordinary legacy as a radical artist, filmmaker, writer, gardener and activist. The exhibition specifically focuses on his lifelong passion for plants, the human body, the landscape and the greater environment, as evidenced in the living artwork that is Prospect Cottage and its shingle garden in Dungeness, Kent.
Edited by the exhibition’s curator Philip Hoare and designed by Daly & Lyon, the pocket-sized book features newly commissioned writing by Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, Tilda Swinton, Olivia Laing, Neil Tennant and Ali Smith, alongside archival photography by Howard Sooley and Liam Daniel, and selected stills from Derek Jarman’s films
Leviathan oder Der Wal
No full textMoby-Dick ist ein Buch, das durch seinen Wal legendär wurde - aber umgekehrt wird ebenfalls ein Schuh draus: Seit der Roman von Herman Melville 1851 veröffentlicht wurde, hat man Wale mit anderen Augen gesehen. Aus einem bereits legendären, mythischen Tier schuf Melville einen modernen Mythos. Philip Hoare, seit jeher fasziniert von Walen, versucht in Leviathan seiner Besessenheit auf den Grund zu gehen. Warum haben Wale eine so starke Anziehungskraft auf den Menschen? Warum spielen sie in unserer Fantasie immer wieder eine Rolle, verschmelzen darin mit dunklen Vorstellungen von Seeschlangen und anderen vorsintflutlichen Riesenwesen? Ist der Wal ein Symbol paradiesischer Unschuld in Zeiten der Artenbedrohung und des Klimawandels? Oder eher ein uraltes Sinnbild für das Böse schlechthin, ein bizarrer Fisch, der Jona verschluckt hat? Besuche im Londoner Natural History Museum während der Kindheit, die erste (und die zweite) Moby-Dick-Lektüre, zahlreiche Whale-Watching-Touren, eine Fahrt von Nordengland nach Cape Cod und zur Mitte des Atlantiks:Der Autor unternimmt nicht nur eine persönliche und biografische Reise, sondern auch eine (kultur-)historische; er erzählt seine eigene Geschichte einer Leidenschaft und liefert zugleich erhellende Antworten auf die Frage, was das Faszinosum Wal ausmacht
Verification Conditions are Code
No full textThis paper presents a new theoretical result concerning Hoare Logic. It is shown here that the verification conditions which support a Hoare Logic program derivation are themselves sufficient to construct a correct implementation of the given pre-, post- condition specification. This property is mainly of theoretical interest, though it is possible that it may have some practical use, for example if predicative programming methodology is adopted. The result is shown to hold for both the original, partial correctness, Hoare logic, and also a variant for total correctness derivations
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