Poet Laureate of Virginia

Punctuating Physics with Poetry: A Meditation on Optics and Dynamical Systems

Auto-icon

What drives mankind to pursue auto-iconography, sometimes to absurd lengths, such as the departed Michael Jackson who developed a plastic caricature of himself, a perfect and yet strangely alien face, framed by a few wispy, well-oiled curls? Is it the pursuit of eternality in the eyes of the beholders that so motivates the auto-iconographer? This…

Mattie Quesenberry Smith, Ph.D.

01/11/2015

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auto-icon, Calculus, Communication in Social Systems, Cooperation in Social Systems, hedonistic calculus, Iteration, Jeremy Bentham, Michael Jackson, Multiverse in Communication, Online Archival Systems, Panopticon, Shannon Information, Ubiquity, Utilitarianism
Under Pressure

A single Mason jar filled with green, undeveloped cherry tomatoes I picked before the first frost and pickled with dill sprigs steals my imagination as I look up at the kitchen soffit where it sits. For days, I have been caught in emergent expectations for what might be contained there—a storehouse of…

Mattie Quesenberry Smith, Ph.D.

01/07/2015

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atmospheric pressure, cherry tomatoes, emergent complexity, home canned foods, moons, planets, spheres, writing