the milky way -ways of seeing. following a tweet from carolyn kennett – l’m reposting this. ‘https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/marxist-astronomy-the-milky-way-according-to-anton-pannekoek. ‘It was their quality as aesthetic objects that first captured my interest in Pannekoek’s sketches, and I’d guess that this is also what has helped these sketches to endure. The aesthetic realm, for Pannekoek, was a manifestation of the way in which the human mind is able to build order out of the disorder of the cosmos. As Johan Hartle writes: “This idea of a profound isomorphism between cosmic order, nature, human society, and even the individual subject. . . held the promise of a society based on a self-regulating system of material forces”. The Milky Way images, then, are not images of the sky so much as cosmic mirrors for the human subject, revealing the interplay between the individual and the collective, between thought and matter, and the deep correspondence between art, science, and politics. ‘ Lauren Colleeis a writer and doctoral researcher looking at the Dark Sky movement at Goldsmiths, University of London. #marxistastronomy, #marxism, #astronomyphotography, #astronomydrawing, #dialecticalthinking, #dialecticalmaterialism, #dialecticalmethod, #ipannekoek, @laurencolleeis, @carolynkennett