A Closer Look to the Abstraction of the Universe

Mac the Opium of the Masses:
Mac is the Opium of the Masses; this new revelation appeared to me after the recent Air Mac-Epidemic was out. I had read Professor Tara Brabazon's criticisms on the usage of Google in writing term papers, what she calls "Google University." In the article a commentator left his/her thoughts by saying: “Maybe Google is the new religion.” And then by a completely-accidental-memory-loss I turned over the Karl Marx’s criticism on the philosophy of Right and transformed it into “Mac, the new Opium of the Masses.” You can read Professor Barbazon's discussions here.


Artful Bacteria; Figurative Within the Abstract:
I have a fever; I cough a lot and my body, especially my chest, aches. With all the misery I am not upset, since my self-diagnosis search led me to see a quality that I would have missed otherwise. I think I got pneumonia. I just looked at some chest X-rays and some microscopic images of Streptococcus Pneumoniae, the bacterium that is known to be the major cause of pneumonia. But lung infection is not the only disease that these artful bacteria cause. They have a résumé packed with diseases. The colored images of Streptococcus pneumoniae are especially touching. These images should be seen as part of figurative art since they present the body, the figure, and the real image of colonized living beings. Yet to our eyes it is an abstract form. These microscopic images detach themselves from their reality – a figure of unicellular organism – and turn into abstract forms in our art-educated minds.


A Post-it on my mind:
On any Middle East map, Gaza Strip is a tiny coastal piece of land. Perhaps this wide blade knife shape land is as abstract as any other place on any geographic map. But sometimes we need to look way too closer, as if through a microscope, in order to remind ourselves how lively and figurative these abstract forms on the map are in their actual existence.

Streptococcus Pneumoniae,
The microscopic image is from here

Streptococcus Pneumoniae,
The Microscopic image is from here.