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Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Tuesday January 9, 2007

Filed under: General — Tags: Modal Diamond Box — m759 @ 12:00 pm

For Balanchine's Birthday

(continued from
January 9, 2003)

George Balanchine

Encyclopædia Britannica Article

born January 22
[January 9, Old Style], 1904,
St. Petersburg, Russia
died April 30, 1983, New York,
New York, U.S.

George Balanchine.
©1983 Martha Swope

original name
Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze
most influential choreographer of classical ballet in the United States in the 20th century. His works, characterized by a cool neoclassicism, include The Nutcracker (1954) and Don Quixote (1965), both pieces choreographed for the New York City Ballet, of which he was a founder (1948), the artistic director, and the…

Balanchine, George… (75 of 1212 words)

"What on earth is
a concrete universal?"
— Robert M. Pirsig

Review:

From Wikipedia's
"Upper Ontology"
and
Epiphany 2007:

"There is no neutral ground
that can serve as
a means of translating between
specialized (lower) ontologies."

There is, however,
"the field of reason"–
the 3×3 grid:

Click on grid
for details.

As Rosalind Krauss
has noted, some artists
regard the grid as
"a staircase to
the Universal."

Other artists regard
Epiphany itself as an
approach to
the Universal:

"Epiphany signals the traversal
of the finite by the infinite,
of the particular by the universal,
of the mundane by the mystical,
of time by eternity."

— Richard Kearney, 2005,
in The New Arcadia Review

Kearney (right) with
Martin Scorsese (left)
and Gregory Peck
in 1997.

"… one of the things that worried me about traditional metaphysics, at least as I imbibed it in a very Scholastic manner at University College Dublin in the seventies, is that philosophy was realism and realism was truth. What disturbed me about that was that everything was already acquired; truth was always a systematic given and it was there to be learned from Creation onwards; it was spoken by Jesus Christ and then published by St. Thomas Aquinas: the system as perfect synthesis. Hence, my philosophy grew out of a hunger for the 'possible' and it was definitely a reaction to my own philosophical formation. Yet that wasn't my only reaction. I was also reacting to what I considered to be the deep pessimism, and even at times 'nihilism' of the postmodern turn."

— Richard Kearney, interview (pdf) in The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter, Vol. 14, 2005-2006

For more on "the possible," see Kearney's The God Who May Be, Diamonds Are Forever, and the conclusion of Mathematics and Narrative:

"We symbolize
logical necessity
with the box (

)
and logical possibility
with the diamond (

)."

— Keith Allen Korcz

"The possibilia that exist,
and out of which
the Universe arose,
are located in
a necessary being…."

— Michael Sudduth,
Notes on
God, Chance, and Necessity
by Keith Ward,
Regius Professor of Divinity,
Christ Church College, Oxford
(the home of Lewis Carroll)

Comments (4)

4 Comments

Old Style is good. The new age isn’t that new.

Comment by BlueCollarGoddess — Wednesday, January 10, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
Darling, where are you?

Comment by BlueCollarGoddess — Monday, January 15, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Still here, just haven’t had much to say lately.

Comment by m759 — Monday, January 15, 2007 @ 3:53 pm
… and that worries me a bit.

Comment by BlueCollarGoddess — Monday, January 15, 2007 @ 10:52 pm

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