(For Harlan Kane)
See as well the Pearl Jam song in posts tagged Enigma Keys.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
The Artifact Mathematician
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Widening
"Damning revelations" — Marie Claire yesterday
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"Imagine a powerful man as a ship, like the Titanic. That ship is a huge enterprise. When it strikes an iceberg, there are a lot of people on board desperate to patch up holes — not because they believe in or even care about the ship, but because their own fates depend on the enterprise."
— Op-ed attributed to Amber Heard by The Washington Post , |
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Heart Heard
"Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:"
— Two lines from a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem
as quoted by Caleb Murdock at . . .
https://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=5356 .
From that same URL —
"And, Caleb, yes, 'sprung rhythm' has made it into dictionaries,
though even there, the association is with Hopkins."
For guess-ghosts —
"Spring is sprung, the grass is riz,
I wonder where the flowers is."
And for an able muse —
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Friday, April 29, 2022
The Diamond Theorem in Basque Country
Translated by Google as . . .
The Truchet Tiles and the Diamond Puzzle and
The Art of the Simple Truchet Tile.
About the author:
Raúl Ibáñez is a professor in the Department of Mathematics
at the UPV/EHU and collaborator with the Chair of Scientific Culture.
About his school:
The University of the Basque Country
(Basque: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, EHU ;
Spanish: Universidad del País Vasco, UPV ; UPV/EHU)
is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community.
— Wikipedia
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Metamorphosis: Seed to Flower in New Yorker Propaganda
Illustration by Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker April 28, 2022
Some related material from Harvard —
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Code Bleu
From The New York Times on May 5, 2011 —
"… What Paris says to me is love story, awash with painters,
shots of the Seine, Champagne. Thank God I have a
can’t-miss notion to sell you. I call it ‘Midnight in Paris.’ ”
“Romantic title,” I had to admit. “Is there a script?”
“Actually, there’s nothing on paper yet, but I can spitball
the main points,” he said, slipping on his tap shoes.
“Maybe some other time,” I said, mindful of Cubbage’s
unbroken string of theatrical Hiroshimas.
— Woody Allen
The above passage is in memory of a French film director
who, like the reporter in yesterday's post Primary Colors,
reportedly died on April 21, 2022.
See also Aitchison at Hiroshima and Easter for Aitchison.
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Thursday, April 28, 2022
The Usual Narratives … Dog Bites Man, Shit Hits Fan.
"It was a bright cold day in April . . ."
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The Tummelplatz
"Leslie Jamison has written an honest and important book….
All in all, vivid writing and required reading." ―Stephen King
Meanwhile, also on April 5, 2018… See posts tagged D8.
More recently, in a conspicuously un-dated new literary magazine …
See as well Freud on the Tummelplatz .
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Dealing with Cubism …
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Ennead (Pace Moon Knight)
Putting the graphic in lexicographic —
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022
The Nocciolo
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Monday, April 25, 2022
Annals of Mathematical History
Some related remarks —
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Vienna Fantasies
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Sunday, April 24, 2022
The Well and the Stone
From a post of October 25, 2002 —
"A work of art has an author and yet,
when it is perfect, it has something
which is essentially anonymous about it."
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
This flashback was suggested by a quotation
in today's previous post —
"Go back to the darkest roots of civilisation
and you will find them knotted round
some sacred stone or encircling
some sacred well."
— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy , Ch. 5 —
"The Flag of the World."
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Roots
"Go back to the darkest roots of civilisation
and you will find them knotted round
some sacred stone or encircling
some sacred well."
— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy , Ch. 5 —
"The Flag of the World."
See also . . .
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Structuralism: Three Betweens
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Glasperlenspiel, Solomon Marcus — m759 @ 10:10 PM Book review by Jadran Mimica in Oceania, Vol. 74, 2003: "In his classic essay of 1955 'The Structural Study of Myth' Levi-Strauss came up with a universal formula of mythopoeic dynamics [fx(a) : fy(b) :: fx(b) : fa-1(y)] that he called canonical 'for it can represent any mythic transformation'. This formulation received its consummation in the four massive Mythologiques volumes, the last of which crystallises the fundamental dialectics of mythopoeic thought: that there is 'one myth only' and the primal ground of this 'one' is 'nothing'. The elucidation of the generative matrix of the myth-work is thus completed as is the self-totalisation of both the thinker and his object." So there. At least one mathematician has claimed that the Levi-Strauss formula makes sense. (Jack Morava, arXiv pdf, 2003.) I prefer the earlier (1943) remarks of Hermann Hesse on transformations of myth: "…in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with a truly meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created." |
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Saturday, April 23, 2022
Kaleidoscopic Structuralism
The previous post suggests two quotes by Elizabeth Janeway
from her review of the second volume of The Human Predicament ,
an unfinished trilogy by Richard Hughes.
"The Human Predicament poses a universal question, and Hughes
is grappling with it really as a structuralist philosopher."
"Hughes's style is kaleidoscopic , the shaking of vivid moments together
until a pattern emerges."
— The New York Times Book Review , Sunday, August 19, 1973, page 2
For a less literary example of kaleidoscopic structuralism, see
a Log24 post from the first anniversary of Janeway's reported death.
Related vocabulary —
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Plato, Shakespeare, Et Cetera
See as well "Plato and Shakespeare" in this journal.
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Friday, April 22, 2022
“The History of the Concept of Structure”
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Derrida was the final speaker on the final day. He remained a silent observer for much of the symposium. He looked on as Lacan rose to his feet with obscure questions at the end of each lecture, and as Barthes gently asked for clarification on various moot points. Eventually, however, Derrida, unused to speaking to large audiences, took to the stage, quietly shuffled his notes, and began, ‘Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event”…’ He spoke for less than half an hour. But by the time he was finished the entire structuralist project was in doubt, if not dead. An event had occurred: the birth of deconstruction.
Salmon, Peter. An Event, Perhaps (pp. 2-3). |
Salmon today at Arts & Letters Daily —
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Pleasantly Discursive Day* in the East
* Vide "pleasantly discursive" in this journal.
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Dies Natalis
October 2, 2016, was, in the Catholic sense, the dies natalis
of a philosopher of science, Mary Hesse.
October 2 was also the day of birth, in the non-Catholic sense,
of philosopher-poet Wallace Stevens.
Cf. remarks in this journal on October 2, 2016.
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Thursday, April 21, 2022
Change Arises Continues
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Mad Men and Broadway
See as well Morse in Log24 posts on the Go chip.
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