"Graphical addition of single-valued scalar fields." Dynamic meteorology and hydrography, 1910.

Every juridical system is in some way a crystallization of a specific set of values, because ethics is part of the materiality of every juridical foundation, but Empire—and in particular the Roman tradition of imperial right—is peculiar in that it pushes the coincidence and universality of the ethical and the juridical to the extreme: in Empire there is peace, in Empire there is the guarantee of justice for all peoples. The concept of Empire is presented as a global concert under the direction of a single conductor, a unitary power that maintains the social peace and produces its ethical truths. And in order to achieve these ends, the single power is given the necessary force to conduct, when necessary, ‘‘just wars’’ at the borders against the barbarians and internally against the rebellious.

Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Empire

Kimberley points
Post-colonial spearheads made by Western Australian Aboriginal people from glass bottles and ceramic telegraph-wire insulators instead of traditional stone. There are four different designs for different uses including hunting, ceremonies, and trade.

National Museum of Australia

Orpheus, 1953.
Leonora Carrington

The Kiss
Constantin Brâncuși
1907/08