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Interdisciplinary research on J.M.W. Turner “Rain, Steam, Speed: The Great Western Railway” by J.M.W. Turner, circa 1844 currently at National Railway Museum, UK “Rain, Steam, Speed” by J.M.W. Turner Luminosities of the Nervous Sublime: J.M.W. Turner and Neuroscientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal Luminosities of the Nervous Sublime, JRC With many support from Will GompertzDeborah Loeb Brice,…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15th May, 2026,Rome: A Literary and Visual Dialogue: La storia di Lala Presented with Live Readings and Immersive Illustrations at La Caverna di Platone, Rome In the heart of Rome, literary and visual storytelling converge for a special presentation of La storia di Lala, the evocative new work by Sergio Scapagnini, hosted by La Caverna di Platone on May 20. The evening…

“Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer…” — W. B. Yeats (The Second Coming) WB Yeats, Noble Laureate Poet In the illuminated whorls of the Book of Kells, Celtic knots trace a visual philosophy: no origin, no terminus, only continuity. These interlacings—Dara, Shield, and Trinity forms—anticipate a modern mathematical sensibility found in topological spaces…

Shakti Manifold: The Curved Geometry of Consciousness Towards Ecological Coherence in a Living Self-Referential Cosmos Dora Maar, Picasso, 1937 “Dreaming in Many Dimensions: Picasso and the Future of Perception” could well begin with Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Dora Maar—a face that appears fractured, yet is better understood as manifold. In works like Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, distortion is…

International Film Director Gautam Ghosh, Sergio Scapagnini and Marco Leonardi on the set of the film Parikrama, directed by Ghosh based on Sergio Scapagnini’s book The Story of Lala There are lives that unfold according to plan—and others that seem to shift along invisible fault lines, guided less by ambition than by awakening. The life of Sergio Scapagnini belongs to the latter. His journey…

Artwork Title/”As long as there are children…” /Ink, charcoal Artwork, 2025, JRC (Inspired by the Dance of Photons) “As long as there are children, as long as wonder fills the sky, I believe in the future of humankind.As long as there is music and poetry, the Mona Lisa and old monasteries, young artists and fledgling scientists—all the other expressions of human creativity—I believe in…

“Find Your Beauty in the Relationship Between Things” “Think not of things, but the relations between them,” Georges Braque once said. The line could easily stand as an epigraph to the life and work of Sir Michael Victor Berry, FRS, Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at the University of Bristol—one of the rare scientists whose intellectual compass is tuned to the connective tissue…

Half a century after its release, Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here (1975) continues to move beyond the category of rock album into the realm of philosophical inquiry. It is at once an elegy, an aesthetic experiment, and an ontological meditation—tracing the path from psychological fragmentation through scientific reflection to metaphysical unity. Of course, ‘Shine on you crazy diamond’ is…

“Between two breaths, the universe pauses and remembers itself.”— Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra“The real mystery is not that we are part of the universe, but that the universe is within us.”— Carl Jung (adapted) Essays on Zen Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki While listening to Bob Dylan’s “I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours ” from Talkin’ World War III Blues from “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album,…

The Circus of Time, Joy Roy Choudhury On Destroying Market Perceptions, Joy Roy Choudhury Maha-Kali, Multiverses, and the Market of Mind: On Destroying Perception In the modern tapestry of perennial aesthetic wisdom, Maha Kali stands not merely as a seminal deity but as the embodiment of a radical epistemological Derridean act: the destruction of perception itself. She is the cosmic dancer of…

Accelerated Dynamics of Time Compression:  Layering of Eras p 1, JRC The layering of eras (yugas /kalpas) in a manifold time-compression design consciousness happens not by random choice or controlled accident but by soul-destiny which starts defining the matrix after a period of intense seeking. It is a path to evolutionary progress where the tenets of causal time or temporality are not…

The Story of Lala by Sergio Scapagnini which inspired Goutam Ghose’s Film Parikrama “Compassion is the basis of morality.” – Arthur Schopenhauer On a damp Kolkata evening, the German philosopher’s maxim feels less like an abstract dictum and more like a description of what is happening in front of you. The rain has just lifted, leaving puddles in the cracked pavement near Sealdah station.…

A symphonic dialogue of music and logic, between the lyrical ‘suchness” and the logic of “no-mind”, between the notes of music and philosophical afterthoughts. The lyrical voice is my experience of reading Romain Rolland (counterpoin ) the aphoristic voice is my double-reading of Wittgenstein’s scaffolding (Tractatus), and Fermi’s silence (a cosmic undertone of Fermi’s Paradox ) to create a…

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd Album Cover, 1967                   Echoes in the Void – A dialogue between two friends on Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, (Released on 4th August 1967 by EMI Columbia, recorded at the EMI Studios in London’s Abbey Road,) . Pink Floyd’s first studio album was recoded in the room next to The Beatles, where they were recording…

To understand “beyond linear time” one has to understand  “liner time” or Chronos. As the topic involves both poetry, the metaphysics of spirituality and physics (natural sciences, measurements from observation) – an interdisciplinary intersection between Dante,  whom TS Eliot regarded as one of the great thinkers of Europe, and Eliot’s’ own poetry from Four Quartets and modern quantum concepts…

Entangling Aesthetics: Italian Artist, Serena Scapagnini’s Evocative Visual Art at the Yale Quantum Institute and its Resonance with the Writings of Italo Calvino – Joy Roy Choudhury, Art Critique, Visual Artist, and Researcher on Consciousness Entangling Aesthetics: Italo Calvino and Scapagnini Superposition, Serena Scapagnini – Quantum Science Art Installations Yale University June 24th –…

Jim Morrison, American Poet Abstract: This article explores the uncanny and illuminating parallels between the poetic vision of Jim Morrison and the logical radicalism of Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Through a post-modern lens, it argues that Morrison’s lyrics and poetry do not merely flirt with the irrational—they articulate a systematic rebellion against closure, completeness, and…