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The controversial Doctor of Philosophy and YouTuber Antonín Dolák lies in the timelessness of his bare room on the top floor of an unnamed villa. Because of his work, he has been expelled from the University of Ostrava, as well as from lectures at DAMU and other institutions. He has offended everyone and has resigned from everything else; he no longer seeks the Truth with a capital T – artificial intelligence will surely do it for us. The final blow for him was the deletion of his channel, which had a ten-year history: from philosophical lectures to provocative anti-art and childish philosophical theater. To some fans he is a self-centered parasite while for others he is a kind of virtual fiction on the internet that they cannot imagine as part of the shared world. Is there anything left about Dolák that is lovable? Is there anything sacred to him? Crippling loneliness sets in.

Nicky Hamlyn’s celestial overtures The Transit of Venus I & II form a diptych document of this astronomical phenomenon, one shot in black in white in the United Kingdom, the other capturing a stunning Italian blush sunset.

Telescopic chronophotography of the 1882 transit of Venus as observed from Lick Observatory.

Venus Transit is a rare astronomical phenomenon, when Venus obscures the edge of the solar disk, and almost seems to touch the Sun. She meets Him to leave for a new life.

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human intervention, being used to serve as photographic evidence of the passage of Venus before the Sun, in 1874.

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.