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It\u2019s easy to think, then, that we should devote ourselves to our most promising solutions.\r\nIt\u2019s easy, but it\u2019s wrong.\r\nThe great paradox of scientific research is that pure exploration \u2013 research into deep questions motivated by pure curiosity, without concern for applications \u2013 is ultimately what transforms our lives in tangible, practical ways.\r\nIn this talk, I will speak not just as a physicist interested in puzzles of quantum entanglement and five-dimensional black holes, but also as someone who has spent the past 25 years helping to establish and grow an institute dedicated to fundamental research. I will make the case for blue-sky research and share my optimism about our collective future.\r\n\r\nBio\r\nRobert Myers (PhD, Princeton University, 1986) is the BMO Financial Group Isaac\r\nNewton Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario,\r\nCanada. He joined Perimeter as a founding faculty in 2001, was the Interim Director\r\nfrom 2007 to 2008, served as Faculty Chair from 2011 to 2018, and as the Director in\r\n2019 to 2024. Prior to coming to Perimeter, he was a Professor of Physics at McGill\r\nUniversity.\r\nMyers has broad interests in theoretical physics, with contributions ranging from\r\nquantum field theory to black holes and cosmology. Several of his discoveries, such as\r\nthe \u201cMyers effect\u201d and \u201clinear dilaton cosmology\u201d have been influential in seeding new\r\nlines of research. His current research focuses on the interplay of quantum\r\nentanglement and spacetime geometry, and on applying new perspectives and tools\r\nfrom quantum information science to the study of quantum gravity.\r\nAmong his many honours, Myers has been awarded the Herzberg Medal by the\r\nCanadian Association of Physicists (1999), the CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and\r\nMathematical Physics by the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and the Centre\r\nde Recherches Math\u00e9matiques (2005), the Vogt Medal by the CAP and TRIUMF\r\n(2012), the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Waterloo (2018), and the\r\nCAP Medal for Lifetime Achievements in Physics (2024). In 2006, he was elected a\r\nFellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he was named a Fellow of the Canadian\r\nAssociation of Physicists in 2024.\r\n\r\nHe has served on numerous advisory boards, including the Banff International\r\nResearch Station (2001-05), the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (2012-16), the\r\nWilliam I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (2015-20), and the Max Planck Institute for\r\nGravitational Physics (2018-present). 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In this talk, she turns to art that lingers in the wound not in order to address\/heal the injury but to graze against it, even to risk re-opening it in the interembodied space of the theatre. Such art is not after healing or repair: it risks, rather, an exposure to traumatic intensities that cannot be captured through anamnesis, intensities that have a fugitive relationship to being grasped or understood, and which, importantly, exert a sadistic force on the artist and the audience. That such sadism is also tender is not a contradiction, but the very condition of a kind of sadism we might think of as aesthetic. 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