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You are false images, Faces of radiant flame; Heart's warmth and tenderness And soul you cannot claim. -- Karl Marx, "Song to the Stars" (1836)^1 In the many drawings that Dutch astronomer, Marxist thinker, and council communist Antonie ("Anton") Pannekoek (1873-1960) made of the Milky Way over the course of his life, it is not immediately clear what we are looking at. The band of stars appears like a smudged backbone, sometimes in "true" colour (white stars on a black background), and sometimes inverted, with the stars as dark points and the "milk" of the Milky Way made inky. They are simultaneously vague and precise -- something between a charcoal rubbing and an X-ray. In fact, the drawings are not technically of the Milky Way at all, because according to Pannekoek, such a thing was not actually accessible as a purely objective entity. While it was widely understood in Pannekoek's time that even highly-skilled astronomers fall prey to observational bias during stargazing (a phenomenon known as "the personal equation"), Pannekoek went further, theorising that what we perceive as the Milky Way is actually a visual trick that emerges at the intersection of the stars and the people on earth who perceive them. During an article published in an 1897 issue of Popular Astronomy, Pannekoek discussed the well-known problem of the Milky Way's ocular inconsistency, wondering if "the character of the galactic phenomenon precludes its being fixed by delineation".^2 This was not just a failing of observational science; it reflected what the Milky Way actually was: a kind of optical illusion that changed its shape depending on the lived experiences of the observer, their historical period, and how these experiences informed the patterns that the mind constructed out of the fluid nature of reality. Pannekoek's drawings, then, are of the act of perception itself -- an approach informed by his political beliefs. Like Marx and Engels -- who drew on Feuerbach, Hegel, and Heraclitus -- Pannekoek understood material reality to be a "continuous and unbounded stream in perpetual motion".^3 He also believed that the human brain had a tendency to generate fixed, abstract patterns from this fluidity, patterns that are always socially and historically contingent. Any view, including that of the stars in the sky, was therefore always making and remaking itself in the mind of the observer according to their individual physiology, psychology, and the distinct material conditions of their place and period. Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. George Barbier, La Voie Lactee, 1921. Evening gown and cape by House of Worth -- Source. As technologies for image-making -- such as radio telescopy and gamma-ray instruments trained on the Milky Way -- become more advanced, mechanical objectivity does not necessarily become more trustworthy. "[T]he history of astronomy has been commonly narrated through the technologically determined progression of better and increased vision", writes Anya Ventura.^4 Yet because these technologies rely on a form of data gathering beyond the faculty of the human senses, there are always additional processes needed to transform their findings into something we can experience. These processes, often excluded from the public-facing narrative, are shot through with subjective decisions. The rich milky vistas of turquoise, rust, violet, and crimson that populate NASA's first Hubble telescope photos, for example, were artificially coloured, much to the disappointment of a public who felt they had been "tricked". The Hubble website responded that artificial colours allow viewers "to visualize what ordinarily could never be seen by the human eye". As Lorraine J. Daston and Peter Galison have argued, scientific imaging's objectivity rests on a construction of the naked eye as deeply unreliable.^5 Pannekoek's drawings, by contrast, produced during a period in which the mechanical eye was overtaking the traditional role of handwork in astronomical observation, represent an alternate current in astronomical image-making -- one that does not shy away from the inherently contested and personal nature of viewing space, but builds this contestation into its very method. This way of doing science does not deny its embeddedness in the material and historical conditions of living on earth. Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Pannekoek during his Berlin years, ca. 1908 -- Source. Born in the Netherlands in 1873, twenty-five years after the publication of The Communist Manifesto, Pannekoek studied mathematics and physics at Leiden University, publishing his first paper on the Milky Way while still a student. He became interested in socialism upon reading Edward Bellamy's utopian novel Equality (1897), after which he began to study the philosophies of Karl Marx and Joseph Dietzgen. His scientific and political careers proved difficult to reconcile, and he eventually left his job at the observatory after he was reprimanded for supporting a strike. Deciding to devote his life to revolutionary politics, he moved to Berlin and then Bremen, where he published widely, often with a pseudonym, and taught classes on historical materialism at schools founded by the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). He had an intercontinental reach: in the years before World War I, Pannekoek's name was familiar "to many American Socialists when Lenin and Trotsky were virtually unknown", notes Theodore Draper.^6 After World War II, disillusioned with the communist states, he became one of the main proponents of council communism, a current of thought that opposed state socialism, and instead advocated for a revolution led by the workers' councils. Despite receiving a favourable treatment in Lenin's The State and Revolution (1917), Pannekoek is perhaps best remembered politically for his 1938 Lenin als Philosoph (Lenin as Philosopher), which critiques the revolutionary's belief in "the reality of abstractions".^7 Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. A 1906 photograph taken to commemorate the launch of a school by the German Social Democratic Party, featuring Pannekoek (far left) -- Source. Pannekoek returned from Germany at the start of World War I and found himself once again at Leiden University where he gradually resumed teaching duties. After a change in the university's directorship, Pannekoek's name was eventually put forward for vice-director of the observatory, but his known communist activities meant that the Dutch government -- fearful of the tide of communist revolutions sweeping across Europe -- vetoed the appointment, "as though his propaganda activities might be a risk to the stars".^8 In 1921, Pannekoek established the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam, which bears his name today. Around the time he was first dismissed, Pannekoek had described the university's methods as tedious and outdated. Astronomy at the turn of the century was committed to its self-fashioning as a "precision science", and doubled down on its acknowledgement of the "personal equation" problem by building vigilance, monitoring, and bookkeeping into methods (William Ashworth describes this as "an accountant's view of the world").^9 Pannekoek, by contrast, argued that the Milky Way was produced at the intersection of physical reality, the observer's eye, and the way their mind interpreted this interplay. In A History of Astronomy (1951), Pannekoek asks: What really is the Milky Way? Exactly speaking, it is a phantom; but a phantom of so wonderful a wealth of structures and forms, of bright and dark shapes, that, seen on dark summer nights, it belongs to the most beautiful scenes which nature offers to man's eyes. It is true that its glimmer is so faint that it disappears where the eye tries to fix upon it--it is perceived only by the rods, not by the cones of the retina, hence is seen only by indirect vision; yet, when all other glare is absent, it gives an impression of brilliant beauty.^10 Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. A charcoal drawing by Wladyslaw T. Benda, depicting the earth with Milky Way and moon, watched by a veiled and robed figure, ca. 1918. Benda produced this image to accompany Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Future of Earth" -- Source. Because of the faintness of some stars that made up the sparkling band of the Milky Way, and the unpredictable way in which the human eye received their light, Pannekoek believed that the brain -- which tended towards abstraction -- found its own patterns in the interplay of light and dark, and that these patterns would be different depending on the distinct life experiences of the observer. Pannekoek devised a method to produce what he termed the "mean subjective image" of the Milky Way, which was comprised of multiple, layered perspectives. To achieve this, he collected accounts of the Milky Way perceived by several other observers, initially as written descriptions (believing that sketches were more likely to lose their accuracy in the act of drawing), and later also as extra-focal photographs, where the plate was intentionally placed outside of the focal plane so that light was distributed more fully, mimicking the way astronomical light is perceived by human eyes. Both the written accounts and extra-focal photographs were translated into "isophotic maps", which correspond to the intensity of light, similar to how topographical maps capture the height of terrain. A line was drawn around an area of equal luminous intensity. Each line was then ascribed a value. The mean subjective image was produced by finding the numerical average of each shaded line. Once the average had been calculated, the maps were made into drawings by Pannekoek himself. Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. A table from Pannekoek's Die nordliche Milchstrasse (1920), merging his own luminosity data with observations by three other observers -- Cornelis Easton, Otto Boeddicker, and Julius Schmidt -- which was used to create the "mean subjective" images -- Source. Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. An isophotic map (left) with its "mean subjective image" (right), from Pannekoek's Die nordliche Milchstrasse (1920). Both images depict the same region of the northern Milky Way, but the right image averages Pannekoek's observations with the recordings of several other astronomical observers -- Source. From today's perspective, there is something deeply alien about Pannekoek's inverse maps of the Milky Way. The shadow at once carefully contoured and vague, like the marks a crumpled bedsheet might leave on morning skin. They are naturalistic but not photorealistic, because the method of their production involves a distrust of the photographic eye's supposed objectivity. These images address themselves towards something that is inevitably elusive -- an "average" of various human and mechanical visions -- and yet they do so with intense care and rigour. Working at a time when all industries were increasingly mechanised, Pannekoek did not necessarily champion the replacement of written accounts with machine-based methods of perception, but instead sought some form of collective subjectivity by bringing together different "organic" and mechanical ways of seeing. If much of the history of post-Enlightenment techno-science can be explained as the quest to mechanise vision in order to increase its precision and accuracy, then Pannekoek was moving in the opposite direction, distorting the camera's gaze in order to bring it into closer proximity with human sight. Black stars agains a white backgroundScroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. One of Pannekoek's "negative" charcoal drawings of the Milky Way, from his Die sudliche Milchstrasse (1928) -- Source. While Pannekoek strived to separate his political and scientific careers, those who have studied his work closely -- including Omar Nasim and Chaokang Tai -- observe the ways in which his political beliefs bled into his scientific convictions and methods. Pannekoek's notion of the Milky Way was essentially Marxist in nature. In a pamphlet titled "Class Struggle and Nation" (1912), for example, he describes a version of historical materialism influenced by Dietzgen, which endows perception with profound importance. "The external world flows before the mind like an endless river, always changing; the mind registers its influences, it merges them, it adds them to what it had previously possessed and combines these elements."^11 Writing on a similar theme in 1944, Pannekoek described thoughts as "not independent entities" but instead "connections and interrelations" that were defined by a dynamical process of movement, and which were entangled with material conditions.^12 For Pannekoek, then, the "mean subjective image" of the Milky Way was less a static average than a process that captured the dynamic nature of thought as it related to observation over time. It was an instant or snapshot of the wider flux that constituted all reality. In Anthropogenesis, Pannekoek refers to the human ability to find patterns in terms of a "smoothed average", an automatic process of organisation by which sensations would influence conscious thought by "heaping up in the dark depths, gradually smoothing out and amalgamating".^13 This meant that the more one was trained in a specific discipline, the more the patterns they identified would correspond to what they had already learned. What Pannekoek was talking about could now be called "confirmation bias"; although in the context of a wider belief in the material origin of thoughts, Pannekoek was referring less to an unfortunate human fallibility, more to a fundamental aspect of the way we relate to the world. Scientific practice in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries was still largely funded by private wealth, and an undercurrent of Social Darwinism drew a link between bourgeois upbringing and innate scientific talent. Pannekoek staunchly opposed this notion in Marxism and Darwinism (1909), where he tries to demonstrate that, although Darwinism "served as a tool to the bourgeoisie in their struggle against the feudal class", in reality, Marxism and Darwinism "form one unit" (for Marx, Darwin's work introduced dialectical thinking into the natural sciences, troubling previous conceptions of the "natural order" as a fixed, stable chain).^14 As Tai argues, Pannekoek also rejected the commonly held nineteenth-century idea that scientists possessed "excellent vision" (an innate knack for observing things exactly as they existed in the real world).^15 Pannekoek's belief in the material foundations of ideas meant anyone could learn to practice science. If the tools to do so were owned by the proletariat rather than liberal scientific institutions, then science would no longer be dominated by the bourgeoisie. "In a capitalist society", Pannekoek wrote, "[science] is the privilege and the specialty of a separate class, the intellectual middle class", whereas "in a communist society all will partake of scientific knowledge".^16 The cover of Anton Pannekoek's Marxism and DarwinismScroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. The cover of Anton Pannekoek's Marxism and Darwinism (1912) -- Source. Pannekoek's disavowal of the idea of special scientific genius did not discount the value of acquired technical skill. Omar Nasim has explored the way Pannekoek's scientific practice centred on craftsmanship and handwork (what Nasim calls "a strong, operational presence of the hand"), highlighting how different forms of labour are involved in the production of scientific knowledge.^17 In this sense, too, Pannekoek brought down to earth the mystified discipline of astronomy (which, as Nasim writes, "does not have the luxury of having its objects near"), highlighting the material conditions that made astronomical ideas possible.^18 Though Pannekoek lived and worked two distinct lives that he was never fully able to reconcile, he is increasingly remembered now as a Marxist-astronomer. The resurgence of interest in Pannekoek's dual pursuit seems tied up with an increasing awareness of how science and systemic violence intersect, prompting the question of how we might do science differently. What might a science informed by socialist politics look like? And where are the Marxist scientists today? Modern astronomy is far from a politically benign pursuit. Its development in Europe is closely bound to the emergence of systems of global data collection, mapping, and standardisation that exploit material resources from across the globe while also positioning Europe as the intellectual centre of the world. As Alex Soojung-Kim Pang argues in Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions, astronomical research became a way for European countries to impose Western scientific norms and beliefs as objective truth.^19 It was common practice for European universities to build observatories in colonies in the Southern Hemisphere, which offered a different view of the night sky. Pannekoek himself benefitted particularly from colonial infrastructure in Java and Sumatra, at the time part of the Dutch East Indies. Nevertheless, the philosophy underpinning Pannekoek's work -- when examined critically today -- might be said to contribute to a current of scientific thinking that subtly undermines the forceful imposition of certain world-views over others that has largely been the legacy of colonial knowledge production. Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. An image taken during a "total solar eclipse" research trip to Sumatra, 1926, which Pannekoek joined (here he is seated in the second row, one person in from the left). The uniformed men in white are soldiers in the Netherlands Indies Colonial Army -- Source. A dialectical view of the night sky opens up a path beyond any absolute binary between truth and falsity, evoking a form of scientific rigour and precision that does not aim to present itself as complete or incontestable. Pannekoek's drawings therefore hark back to an earlier form of astronomy which, as Charlotte Bigg writes, embraced a "qualitative, literary and aesthetic approach rather than a quantitative, mathematical approach to phenomena".^20 By foregrounding interpretive variety, Pannekoek edges towards a more bottom-up and decentralised way of doing science; one that has the potential to complement anti-colonial and anti-capitalist methodologies. 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".^21 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. NotesShow Notes 1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works, vol. 1 (1835-1843) (New York: International Publishers, 1975), 608. 2. Anton Pannekoek, "On the Necessity of Further Researches on the Milky Way", Popular Astronomy 5.8 (December 1897): 397. 3. Anton Pannekoek, "The Position and Significance of J. Dietzgen's Philosophical Works", introduction to Joseph Dietzgen, The Positive Outcome of Philosophy, trans. Ernest Untermann (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1906), 33. Quoted in Chaokang Tai, "Left Radicalism and the Milky Way: Connecting the Scientific and Socialist Virtues of Anton Pannekoek", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 47.2 (2017): 247. 4. Anya Ventura, "'Pretty Pictures': The Use of False Color in Images of Deep Space", InVisible Culture 19 (October 29, 2013). 5. Lorraine J. Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Brooklyn: Zone Books, 2007), 115-183. 6. Theodore Draper, The Roots of American Communism (New York: Viking Press, 1957), 65-66. Quoted in Serge Bricianer, Pannekoek and the Workers' Councils, trans. Malachy Carroll (Saint Louis: Telos Press, 1978), 1 n.1. The slavicist H. Schurer went so far as to argue that the credit for formulating certain principles of Leninism belongs to Pannekoek. See his "Anton Pannekoek and the Origins of Leninism", The Slavonic and East European Review 41.97 (June 1963): 327-344. 7. See Alex de Jong's article in Jacobin for a fuller account of the evolution of Pannekoek's political ideas. 8. See Bricianer, Pannekoek and the Workers' Councils, 33. 9. William Ashworth, "The Calculating Eye: Baily, Herschel Babbage and the Business of Astronomy", The British Journal for the History of Science 27.4 (1994): 409. 10. A. Pannekoek, A History of Astronomy (New York: Interscience Publishers, 1961), 474. 11. Anton Pannekoek, "Class Struggle and Nation", trans. unknown (Reichenberg, 1912). 12. Anton Pannekoek, Anthropogenesis: A Study of the Origin of Man, trans. unknown (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company). 13. Pannekoek, Anthropogenesis. 14. Anton Pannekoek, Marxism and Darwinism, trans. Nathan Weiser (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1912). 15. Chaokang Tai, "The Milky Way as Optical Phenomenon", in Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society, eds. Chaokang Tai, Bart Van der Steern, and Jeroen van Dongen (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 234. 16. Anton Pannekoek, "The Intellectuals", trans. Micah Muer, International Council Correspondence 1.12 (October 1935). 17. Omar W. Nasim "The Labour of Handwork in Astronomy: Between Drawing and Photography in Anton Pannekoek", in Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society, 250. 18. Nasim, 256. 19. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002). 20. Charlotte Bigg, "Staging the Heavens: Astrophysics and Popular Astronomy in the Late Nineteenth Century", in The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture, eds. David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, and H. Otto Sibum (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 308. 21. Johann Hartle, "Cross-Fading the Milky Way", in Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society, 295. Public Domain Works * Die Nordliche Milchstrasse Anton Pannekoek1920 + NASA Astrophysics Data System (JPG pages) + NASA Astrophysics Data System (PDF) Texts * "Class Struggle and Nation" Anton Pannekoek1912 + Marxists Internet Archive Texts * Marxism and Darwinism Anton Pannekoek1913 + Internet Archive Texts * "On the Necessity of Further Researches on the Milky Way" Anton Pannekoek1897 + NASA Astrophysics Data System (JPG pages) + NASA Astrophysics Data System (PDF) Texts * "The Position and Significance of J. Dietzgen's Philosophical Works" Anton Pannekoek1902 + Marxists Internet Archive Texts * "The Destruction of Nature" Anton Pannekoek1909 + Marxists Internet Archive Texts Further Reading * Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Astronomy was a popular and important part of Victorian science, and British astronomers carried telescopes and spectroscopes to remote areas of India, the Great Plains of North America, and islands in the Caribbean and Pacific to watch the sun eclipsed by the moon. Examining the rich interplay between science, culture, and British imperial society in the late nineteenth century, this book shows how the organization and conduct of scientific fieldwork was structured by contemporary politics and culture, and how rapid and profound changes in the organization of science, advances in photography, and new printing technology remade the character of scientific observation. More Info and Buy undefined cover * A History of Astronomy By Anton Pannekoek The history of astronomy consists of the growth of man's concept of his world. The study of the cosmos became an essential part of the history of human culture, an adventure of the mind. In this well-balanced account of that adventure, the author is at pains to relate the development of astronomy to the social and cultural background in which it is nurtured. Thus, the effect of changes in political conditions, the influence of geography, and the growth of industry and of communications methods are clearly and incisively described. More Info and Buy undefined cover * Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society Edited by Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, and Jeroen van Dongen Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects essays on Pannekoek and his contemporaries at the crossroads of political history, the history of science and art history. More Info and Buy undefined cover Books link through to Amazon who will give us a small percentage of sale price (ca. 4.5%). Discover more recommended books in our dedicated PDR Recommends section of the site. The works of Anton Pannekoek are not yet in the public domain in countries which follow a copyright term of "life plus 70 years" (e.g. UK and most EU member states), and only those works published prior to 1926 are public domain in the US. Lauren Collee is a writer and doctoral researcher looking at the Dark Sky movement at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her essays and short fiction have been published in Real Life Mag, Another Gaze, Overland Journal, Uneven Earth, and more. 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