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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Now at Harvard: The Link Chase

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:29 pm

From https://dash.harvard.edu/ a straightforward search now leads to . . .

Clicking on the above "Square Model" link leads to a summary page
with a "citable link" to itself . . . 

https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37373777 :

— and then, clicking on the summary page's 
"View/Open The square model of PG(3,2). (329.1Kb)," 
you will see a two-page PDF . . .

— and finally, scrolling down on that PDF, you will come to . . . 

.

Or you can just Google Cullinane square model .

A Critic’s Part

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:28 pm

Defense Against the Dark Arts

https://monoskop.org/images/2/28/Dyer-Witheford_Nick_Cyber-Marx_Cycles_and_Circuits_of_Struggle_in_High_Technology_Capitalism.pdf

Catchup for Blockheads . . . Da Capo

Three Representations

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:05 pm

'Cube Bricks, 1984,' by Steven H. Cullinane

Cube Bricks, 1984

See also Impenetrability .

Metadata

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:10 am

See also the orange "tongues of flame" in the previous post.

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Area 15 Revisited: The In-Folding

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:41 pm

"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."

— T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942)

For seekers of a "crazy Christmas knot" —

The commercial logo below may be viewed as
three in-folded Y-shaped orange forked tongues.

See also this journal on the above opening date — July 23, 2021:

'The Power Of The Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts,' by Rudolf Arnheim

Cover illustration:

Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.

Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

"What happens in Canaan, stays in Canaan."

Mere Synchronology

The date — January 9, 2010 — of the Guardian  book review
in the previous post was noted here by a top 40 music list
from that same date in an earlier year.

Update of 4:07 AM ET the same morning:

Fans of Cormac McCarthy's recent adventures in unreality
might enjoy interpreting the time — 3:25 AM ET — of this post
as the date  3/25, and comparing the logos, both revisited
and new, in a Log24 post from 3/25 . . .

Helen Mirren with plastic Gankyil .

. . . with the logo of a venue whose motto is

"Reality is not enough."

Monday, November 28, 2022

“At Home with the Hammersteins”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:30 pm

The title is a phrase from a 2010 Guardian  book review.
The book under review was by one Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
who reportedly died at 93 on Nov. 24 in Munich.

Also on Nov. 24 —

Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum.

Groups, Spaces, and Ripoffs

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:21 pm

"Rubik's Cube, and the simpler [2x2x2] Super Cube, represent
one form of mathematical and physical reality."

— Solomon W. Golomb, "Rubik's Cube and Quarks:
Twists on the eight corner cells of Rubik's Cube
provide a model for many aspects of quark behavior
,"
American Scientist , Vol. 70, No. 3 (May-June 1982), pp. 257-259 

From the last (Nov. 14, 2022) of the Log24 posts now tagged Groups and Spaces

From the first (June 21, 2010) of the Log24 posts now tagged Groups and Spaces

Cyber Monday for fans of “The Peripheral”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:10 pm

The Whiteboard Embedding

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:42 am

See Whiteboard in this journal.

Fly from Fly-Bottle…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:00 am

Continues.

 

L’écart, l’entre and so forth

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am

See as well . . .

"But let us return to the concepts of the divide  [écart ]
and interspace  [l'entre ], which figure prominently in my work…."

Saturday, November 26, 2022

Metaphorical Possibilities

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 8:20 pm

"I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a Wisława Szymborska poem or 
Tom Stoppard play that explores the metaphorical possibilities
in the Borromean rings."
Evelyn Lamb in Scientific American , September 30, 2016.

Other mathematical structures also have metaphorical possibilities.

Perhaps not encantado  enough.

See Szymborska in this journal in the context of St. Bridget's Day.

Da Capo: The Iceman Goeth

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:46 am

The name "Hickey" in last night's post suggested the phrase
"pipe dream" and a search for the opening date of
"The Iceman Cometh" — which was October 9, 1946.

That date, it happens, was the birth date of a video game
executive whose passing was noted here . . .

Friday, November 25, 2022

Story Dice

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:51 pm

Story dice and 'The Robe'

Hard Candy on Good Friday 2006

“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:33 pm

"Both Hal and the students were great interlocutors
with lots of ideas and differing perspectives."

Leah Dickerman, MoMA, May 10, 2010, at
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/05/10/
class-snapshot-origins-abstraction
 

Later . . .

See as well Desargues + Galois.

Thursday, November 24, 2022

The Drum Machine

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 2:18 pm

"A struggling music producer sells his soul to a 1970s drum machine."

— Summary of a short film by Kevin Ignatius, "Hook Man."

The music producer pawns his current drum device 
and acquires a demonic 1970s machine.


Artistic symbolism —

The 16-pad device at left may be viewed by enthusiasts of ekphrasis
as a Galois tesseract, and the machine at right as the voice of
Hal Foster, an art theorist who graduated from Princeton in 1977.

For an example of Foster's prose style, see
the current London Review of Books.

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Crary Art: A Long Dark Trail*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:26 pm

* "The  Long Dark Trail" is the title of a recent film
directed by a later resident of 505 Market Street.

Prescott Street: “Second-Rate Venue?” Discuss.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:51 pm

In memory of an economist who reportedly died on Nov. 6 —

See also a Log24 post from Prescott's reported death date,
and a search in this journal for Prescott Street.

Truthiness

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:01 pm

Ho vs. Ho!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:53 am

A literary note for Ho, from this journal on October 27, 2008

A day earlier — October 26, 2008 — was the date of a very
informative, but deeply tasteless, introduction to . . .

That introduction need not be quoted here.

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

“Jaeger (Jäger)”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:10 pm

" The term jaeger  is German for 'hunter.' "

— Thomas Tull, producer, at 0:42 / 4:10 in
Pacific Rim – "Jaegers: Mech Warriors" Featurette

Related language notes —

"Drift" in Pacific Rim  and "Haptic Drift" in The Peripheral .

See also … 

"The story begins with the the doctor asking Trexler
  if he has any bizarre thoughts." 
 — Description of a classic E. B. White story,
"The Second Tree from the Corner."

and a particular  second tree from a particular  corner:

For “Triangle of Sadness” Fans

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:56 pm

From a Charlbi Dean film —

See as well Season 1 of the HBO series "White Lotus" —

  "I'm just playing the hand I was dealt."

Christmas Creep

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:59 pm

The above title is that of a Wikipedia article.

For the plural  of the title, see . . .

Picture Story

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:50 am

"Apart from its great antiquity the picture-story mode of presentation
favored by the unconscious has the appeal of its simple utility.
A picture can be recalled in its entirety whereas an essay cannot."

— Cormac McCarthy, essay on language and the unconscious
April 17, 2017,  quoted in a post of November 9, 2022.

See also Soifer in this journal and . . .

Related philosophical remarks —

Related entertainment —

Monday, November 21, 2022

Deep Pool

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:01 pm

"Nietzsche in Basel studied the deep pool
Of these discolorations, mastering

The moving and the moving of their forms
In the much-mottled motion of blank time."

— Wallace Stevens, "Description Without Place"

Also in Basel, a mathematics professor contemplated the Lo Shu

Lo Shu tortoise

 

Calvinist Anomalies

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:11 pm

Last night's 1:40 AM ET Windows lockscreen was Chateau d'If,
a fortress featured in the 1846 novel The Count of Monte Cristo :

Wikipedia on the fortress

"The isolated location and dangerous offshore currents
of the Château d'If made it an ideal escape-proof prison,
very much like the island of Alcatraz in California 
in more recent times. Its use as a dumping ground for
political and religious detainees soon made it one of the
most feared and notorious jails in France. Over 3,500 
Huguenots (French Calvinists/identifying Christians)
were sent to Château d'If, as was Gaston Crémieux,
a leader of the Paris Commune, who was shot there in 1871."

Speaking of Calvinists . . . See Marilynne Robinson on anomalies.

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Crotch Watch

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:00 pm

From a post of Dec. 17, 2018 —

Art Notes

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:45 pm

Coherence

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:59 am

Is coherence in the eye of the beholder? Discuss.

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