This image is in memory of an interior decorator
who reportedly died on April 9, 2021.
It was suggested by a post from this journal on
that date. The musical note is from a later version
of the April 9 image .
Related material:
Schlummerlied by Cornelius Gurlitt (Opus 101, No. 6).
Vide . . .
From thinking-machines.online/ —
“Online lecture series on artificial intelligence, summer 2021. . . .
The series will be jointly hosted by
the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum,
as part of their traditional »Montagskolloquium«,
the STS group at the European New School of Digital Studies, EUV,
Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), TUM, and
the Philosophy of Computing group, ICFO, Warsaw University of Technology.”
From thinking-machines.online/dick/ —
“… it is urgent to unpack what is at stake….”
See as well the phrase “possible, necessary, and urgent”
in the April 10 post Bond.
And then there is Foreigner . . . .
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(For the “possible, necessary” part, see Modal Nietzsche.)
From AntiChristmas 2010 —
Above: Art Theorist Rosalind Krauss and The Ninefold Square
For Krauss:
Grid View List View
See other posts now tagged Yale Weekend.
That weekend, Sat. Nov. 23 — Sun. Nov. 24, 2013,
saw the death of Yale professor Sam See
in a New Haven Jail.
Related literary remarks:
Search "Merve Emre" + "Sam See."
* Vide Log24 references.
Not by Don DeLillo —
Those apt to be seduced by language, either secular or religious,
might note that the author of the Point Omega book above is also
the author of Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power —
Hemingway fans might note as well a website whose background
image memorializes the Catholic fallen of the Spanish Civil War:
A pyramid scheme† in memory of the late Bernie Madoff —
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The above passage from Whitehead’s 1906 book suggests
that the tetrahedral model may be older than Polster thinks.*
This is shown by . . .
† See also “Profzi Scheme.”
* For some related work of the above “D. Mesner,” see
Mesner, D. (1967). “Sets of Disjoint Lines in PG(3, q),”
Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 19, 273-280.
“What do we owe to those not yet born?” —
Perhaps an accurate view of history.
From the Sunday night post Euclid Alone,
the new site Beauty Bare —
(The first-post date of April 12 is apparently based on UTC time.)
From today’s previous post, A Model Echo —
The previous Log24 post, on mathematics, was titled
“Models: A Return to Utrecht.”
After writing that post I decided to check out another sort of
Utrecht model, and found a surprising echo:
“A Return to Utrecht: The Sylvia Kristel Archives.”
Recommended related reading: Kristel’s obituary in The Telegraph .
Recommended related music:
https://www.google.com/search?q=
%22show+us+the+way+to+the+next+little+girl%22+bowie .
References to a 1960 conference paper by Freudenthal in this journal
suggest another paper from the same conference …
See as well other posts now tagged . . .
For my own work on models, see
Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube.
A view of my HC page (the logged-in version) —
The new site Beauty Bare —
The first-post date of April 12 is apparently based on UTC time.
Apparently because of its usual visual representation,
the Fano plane has now been put in the Wikipedia category
“Dot patterns.”
Some dot patterns many will prefer: Braille Nude.
See the title in this journal. This review was suggested by
a phrase of Catherine Flynn:
The previous post, on a Joyce symposium in
Utrecht on June 15-20, 2014, suggests a review
of this journal in June 2014. From June 21
of that year —
"Without the possibility that
an origin can be lost, forgotten,
or alienated into what springs
forth from it, an origin could
not be an origin. The possibility
of inscription is thus a necessary
possibility, one that must always
be possible."
— Page 157 of The Tain of the Mirror:
Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection ,
by Rodolphe Gasché, Harvard U. Press, 1986
Related art suggested by the above modal logic —
(See also Gap Dance elsewhere in this journal.)
"… the Wake seemed to be everywhere
at the Utrecht Joyce Symposium."
"What I saw at the Symposium at Utrecht
were scholars working to close the gap
between the multifaceted complexity
of the text and the vastly greater complexity
of the readers experiencing it."
— "Along the Krommerun: The Twenty-Fourth International
James Joyce Symposium, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
15-20 June 2014," by Andrew Ferguson, University of Virginia.
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"Central to these structural and aesthetic innovations, however, is a mundane element: the wooden dowel. The dowel is a small peg of variable length; its ends lack distinct heads, allowing it work in any direction. The dowels remain hidden in the Red Blue Chair as they connect rail to rail and rail to plank, invisible yet essential to the chair's appearance and its defiance of convention and gravity. Critics have noted the chair's flouting of the rules of modern architectural semantics: Yves-Alain Bois writes of the elements that function simultaneously in two ways, as both supporting prop and supported cantilever, as subverting "the functionalist ethic of modernist architecture — the dictum that would have one meaning per sign". It is the dowel that allows the elements of the chair to attain so subtly this semantic complexity. The chair's innovations are not technological, but rather concern the arrangement and deployment of existing materials and elements. The dowel is a modest but highly adaptable means of joining: while the dovetail joint requires two equally sized components, the mortise and tenon involves a male and a female element, and the housed joint requires an extended zone of contact, the dowel neutrally connects all kinds of elements to one another, its single point allowing maximum freedom in the orientation of the connected elements." — Page 25 of "From Dowel to Tesseract," |
(With belated Easter greetings to Kate Beckinsale)
Beauty not so sleeping —
See also Cama Suitra and . . .
” Ironically, the bestselling ‘historian’ of time
seems stuck in the past, known throughout his life
to put up posters of Marilyn Monroe in his office,
visit ‘gentlemen’s clubs’ and claim that women were
‘a mystery.’ ” — Philip Ball, March 1, 2021
See related material on a Mystery Woman of Cuernavaca.
See as well the March of Hawking’s death in posts tagged Spring Awakening —
“… a wonderful model of a small church or chapel.”
— Andrew Cusack, March 20, 2018
For another wonderful model in Bavaria, see Straight Line Fever.
Recent posts on hotels and education suggest a review.
See “Child Buyer” in this journal.
From John Hersey’s The Child Buyer (1960):
“I was wondering about that this morning…
About forgetting. I’ve always had an idea that
each memory was a kind of picture,
an insubstantial picture. I’ve thought of it as
suddenly coming into your mind when you need it,
something you’ve seen, something you’ve heard,
then it may stay awhile, or else it flies out, then
maybe it comes back another time….
If all the pictures went out, if I forgot everything,
where would they go? Just out into the air? Into the sky?
Back home around my bed, where my dreams stay?”
“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns….”
— Wallace Stevens
— Postcard from eBay
From Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, Chapter I:
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Drilling down . . .
My own, more abstract, academic interests are indicated by
a post from this journal on January 20, 2020 —
Dyadic Harmonic Analysis: The Fourfold Square and Eightfold Cube.
Those poetically inclined may regard that post as an instance of the
“intersection of the timeless with time.”
For Timeless fans, a flashback to April 8, 2016 —
See as well the above Rittenhouse date — April 8, 2016 —
in posts tagged April 8-11 2016.
See as well this journal on the above Sundance photo date —
“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns . . . .”
— Wallace Stevens, quoted in posts tagged Portal1937
Update of 12:35 PM ET the same day —
. . . And then there’s Abigail Spencer . . . .
A line for von Braun in “Timeless” S1 E4 —
“But sometimes I hit London.”
A TV episode from 2016 —
The above “Lucy” actress in 2014 —
Compare and contrast with the homecoming
bedroom scene in De Palma’s “Body Double” (1984).
“Like a rose under the April snow . . . .” — Streisand
* See other posts tagged Langer Key.
This post was suggested by last night’s image of Nicola Cavanis
at the Louis Hotel in Munich by photographer Linus Meier.
Related material —
Today’s New York Times report of a March 28 death in Rome:
* See this journal on St. Peter’s Day, 2020.
Continued from Kickstarter (Sat., April 3, 2021).
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 “I get no kick from champagne . . .”
An example of Seduction by Language, this post was
suggested by the Joycean phrase cama suitra .
The previous post suggests a review of a passage quoted here
on Holy Cross Day 2018 . . .
in light of a post from March 2021 —
This post was suggested by a recent American Mathematical Society essay:
“My goal here is to make the results of one such collaboration,
by Branko Grünbaum (1929-2018) and Geoffrey Shephard (1927-2016)
in the area of discrete geometry more widely known.”
Grünbaum reportedly died on Sept. 14, 2018 — Holy Cross Day.
As for Shephard . . .
“… But it’s all right now
I learned my lesson well
You see, you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself… ”
Posts tagged Ministry of Culture.
These include . . .
(From “Raiders of the Lost Coordinates,” Feb. 17, 2021.)
Heng today states clearly the obvious problem with peer review —
“… because reviewers must have a certain level of authority
in the subject, their work is often in direct competition with
what’s presented in these potential publications.”
Thursday, August 21, 2014
NoxFiled under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 1:00 AM ( A sequel to Lux ) “By groping toward the light we are made to realize — Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Robin Williams and the Stages of Math i) shock & denial A related description of the process — “You know how sometimes someone tells you a theorem, — Tom Leinster yesterday at The n-Category Café |
“Why did no one tell me this before?” See The Crimson .
From the RSS feed of The Chronicle of Higher Education ‘s site
Arts & Letters Daily this evening —
“Despite the wide scope of his bibliography and reception,
Derrida was a specialist in a subfield of his own design,
more or less: the philosophy of writing, which upends
the privileging of speech over writing that has dominated
Western metaphysics since Plato. This ‘phonocentrism’
(which Derrida yarns into ‘logocentrism,’ and eventually,
‘phallocentrism’) starts from a false premise, that the
moment of utterance in Aristotle’s view is somehow more
rhetorically ‘present’ than the kairos of writing….”
— Andrew Marzoni, March 10, 2021:
“Outside the Text: Jacques Derrida resists
easy canonization in a new hagiography for the Left.”
https://thebaffler.com/latest/outside-the-text-marzoni
A related image from this journal
on that same date, March 10, 2021:
“Plato and Hegel always recognized the importance of the gap:
they invoke the gap (the opening, the separation, the division)
and they put it to work. The inescapable gaps that cannot be bridged,
that cannot be filled, play a central role in Derrida’s thought and in
our response to his death. The gaps in Derrida’s work resist the gap;
they swerve, deviate and wander (écarter ) – gaps move . When someone
or something takes pre-cedence (goes first, goes before, goes on ahead
and gives up its place ) a gap is opened. There (are) only gaps, the gaps
that Jacques Derrida has left behind him and in front of him: the
pre-cedence of gaps. This tracing of gaps (écarts ) is a preface to an
impossible mourning, a mourning that one must at once avoid and
affirm. It keeps returning to Derrida’s Dissemination (1972)….”
— Page vii of The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida ,
by Sean Gaston (Continuum Books, London/New York, 2006)
Later in the same book —
See also a search for Evolutionary Dynamics in this journal.
That search leads to an article co-authored by one H. Ohtsuki —
Ohtsuki, H., & Iwasa, Y. (2004).
“How should we define goodness? –
Reputation dynamics in indirect reciprocity.”
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 231(1), 107-120.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.06.005
Related material: Ohtsuki’s CV , which contains references
to Harvard, Nowak, Evolutionary Dynamics, and (notably)
two separate lists of citations given to establish the fact that
Ohtsuki has a fairly low Erdős number — namely, 4.
Related material: The Erdős number of Ariana Grande.
Another concept from The New York Times today: intertwining —
“The historical achievements and experiences of women and men
are like the intertwined warp and weft threads of a woven fabric.”
— Virginia Postrel in a NY Times opinion piece today.
From Postrel’s Web page —
* See (for instance) A Picture Show for Quanta Magazine.
See as well the Log24 posts from the date of Dickstein’s death.
These are now tagged “The Cornfield Hallows.”
“People tend to gravitate more towards a colorful villain
than a hero – after all, we just had an entire movie about
the Joker, and it won Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar.”
— “Sure, Jesse Eisenberg Would Ham It Up Again
As Lex Luthor, Why Not?,” posted on March 17th, 2020,
by Chris Evangelista at slashfilm.com.
Some images from Feb. 5, 2021, in a search for "ABC Art" —
A colored version using CSS —
See https://codepen.io/m759/pen/wvoGwzx .
“Somehow, a message had been lost on me. Groups act .
The elements of a group do not have to just sit there,
abstract and implacable; they can do things, they can
‘produce changes.’ In particular, groups arise
naturally as the symmetries of a set with structure.”
— Thomas W. Tucker, review of Lyndon’s Groups and Geometry
in The American Mathematical Monthly , Vol. 94, No. 4
(April 1987), pp. 392-394.
Context for the Cullinane diamond theorem in
the Smithsonian’s NASA Astrophysics Data System:
From the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory —
From a Log24 post of Friday, February 26, 2021 —
( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. ) |
This image may be regarded as memorializing a photographer
who died at 80 on Feb. 26 and who
“captured Warhol’s self-designed mythology in the making”
— Alex Vadukul in The New York Times today
“To conquer, three boxes* have to synchronize and join together into the Unity.”
―Wonder Woman in Zack Snyder’s Justice League
See also The Unity of Combinatorics and The Miracle Octad Generator.
* Cf. Aitchison’s Octads —
Continues from March 17.
See as well some remarks on Chinese perspective
in the Log24 post “Gate” of June 13, 2013.
“So, tell me about your most recent nightmare.”
— Dr. Raynor in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”
Update of 2:07 PM ET on March 20 —
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Changing Woman: “Kaleidoscope turning…
Shifting pattern — Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat |
The two most recent posts today on Kate Beckinsale’s Instagram:
“That’s pom, not porn, Magoo.”
“Like the beat, beat, beat
of the tom-tom….”
— Cole Porter, 1932
n. itinerant seller or giver of books,
especially religious literature.
” ‘Dreams are designed to help us maintain our self-identity,
our sense of who we are, as our life circumstances change,’
Dr. Cartwright wrote in ‘The Twenty-Four Hour Mind:
The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives’
(2010).” — Rosalind Cartwright, a.k.a. “Queen of Dreams”
Cartwright reportedly died on January 15.
A related Kentucky dream — “Goddess on a Mountain Top.”
Caption: "I notice the signatures are never abstract." —
Abstract Art
Abstract Signature
From Encyclopedia of Mathematics —
“… the true sense of
‘Let be be the finale of seem’
is
‘let being become the conclusion or denouement of appearing to be’….”
— Wallace Stevens, letter to Henry Church, June 1, 1939
Update of 6:21 PM ET:
Related remark from The New York Times today —
“In a 2000 interview with the newspaper Libération ,
Mr. Dupond set forth his credo as an artist:
‘To please, seduce, divert, enchant;
I feel that I have only ever lived for this.’”
“datePublished”:”2021-03-13T17:02:01.000Z”,
“headline”:”Patrick Dupond, French Ballet Virtuoso, Dies at 61″
“At the still point, there the dance is.”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
According to Lt. Col. Wayne M. McDonnell in June 1983 —
“… it is accurate to observe that when a person experiences
the out-of- body state he is, in fact, projecting that eternal spark
of consciousness and memory which constitutes the ultimate
source of his identity….”
— Section 27, “Consciousness in Perspective,” of
“Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process.”
A related quotation —
“In truth, the physical AllSpark is but a shell….”
— https://tfwiki.net/wiki/AllSpark
From the post Ghost in the Shell (Feb. 26, 2019) —
See also, from posts tagged Ogdoad Space —
“Like the Valentinian Ogdoad— a self-creating theogonic system
of eight Aeons in four begetting pairs— the projected eightfold work
had an esoteric, gnostic quality; much of Frye’s formal interest lay in
the ‘schematosis’ and fearful symmetries of his own presentations.”
— From p. 61 of James C. Nohrnberg’s “The Master of the Myth
of Literature: An Interpenetrative Ogdoad for Northrop Frye,”
Comparative Literature , Vol. 53 No. 1, pp. 58-82, Duke University
Press (quarterly, January 2001)
— as well as . . .
Related illustration from posts tagged with
the quilt term Yankee Puzzle —
See Trinity Cube in this journal and . . .
McDonnell’s illustration is from 9 June 1983.
See as well a less official note from later that June.
" LaTeX is widely used in academia[3][4]
for the communication and
publication of scientific documents
in many fields . . . ." — Wikipedia
Related academic remarks —
"The puzzle in general terms is one of structure ."
— J. Robert Oppenheimer, page 122,
Life Magazine , Oct. 10, 1949
The term "puzzle" may be misleading.
A more serious structure —
Click the above images for further details.
Stunt Writer
An image from this journal on June 29, 2019 —
Related material — The Legends Slot —
See as well . . .
Kingsman 2 Director Reveals
How They Shot The Glastonbury Scene.
(Title suggested by the beanie label "Alternate Future: NYC/10001")
A version of the Salinger story title "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" —
"… her mouth is red and large, with Disney overtones. But it is her eyes,
a pale green of surprising intensity, that hold me."
— Violet Henderson in Vogue , 30 August 2017
See also that date in this journal.
“The innermost kernel of the ego endures.” — Schopenhauer
Disco Pigs star Elaine Cassidy listens to Christopher Marlowe:
“The hallucinatory, Joycean night-town through which
Pig and Runt roam is effectively conjured . . . .”
“An dat liddle baba he look righ inta me, yeah.”
— Disco Pigs script
* As opposed to London Humor . . .
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”
Disco Pigs star Elaine Cassidy in a later entertainment:
From The New York Times today —
From Log24 yesterday, Echo Arc —
Related quote from Polonius — “To thine own self be true ….”
Actually, Dirac “bridged math and physics” much earlier —
“Spinors, which are a kind of square root of vectors, had been introduced
in algebra and also in physics as part of Paul Dirac’s theory of the electron.
A spin structure on a manifold allows such square roots to exist.”
— Quanta Magazine today, article by Daniel S. Freed
See The Eddington Song and . . .
Poetic paraphrase —
“How can we tell the singer from the song?”
“Art bears the same relationship to society
that the dream bears to mental life. . . .
Like art, the dream mediates between order
and chaos. So, it is half chaos. That is why
it is not comprehensible. It is a vision, not
a fully fledged articulated production.
Those who actualize those half-born visions
into artistic productions are those who begin
to transform what we do not understand into
what we can at least start to see.”
— A book published on March 2, 2021:
Beyond Order , by Jordan Peterson
The inarticulate, in this case, is Rosalind Krauss:
A “raid on the inarticulate” published in Notices of the
American Mathematical Society in the February 1979 issue —
From this journal on Nov. 9-12, 2004:
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Fade to Black “…that ineffable constellation of talents that makes the player of rank: a gift for conceiving abstract schematic possibilities; a sense of mathematical poetry in the light of which the infinite chaos of probability and permutation is crystallized under the pressure of intense concentration into geometric blossoms; the ruthless focus of force on the subtlest weakness of an opponent.” — Trevanian, Shibumi “‘Haven’t there been splendidly elegant colors in Japan since ancient times?’ ‘Even black has various subtle shades,’ Sosuke nodded.” — Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital  Ad Reinhardt An Ad Reinhardt painting described in the entry of
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, 1960-66. The viewer may need to tilt the screen to see that “The grid is a staircase to the Universal…. We could think about Ad Reinhardt, who, despite his repeated insistence that ‘Art is art,’ ended up by painting a series of… nine-square grids in which the motif that inescapably emerges is a Greek cross.  Greek Cross There is no painter in the West who can be unaware of the symbolic power of the cruciform shape and the Pandora’s box of spiritual reference that is opened once one uses it.” — “Grids,” by Rosalind Krauss, |
Related material from The New York Times today —
| That edge, where artists are always transforming chaos into order, can be a very rough and dangerous place. Living there, an artist constantly risks falling fully into the chaos, instead of transforming it. But artists have always lived there, on the border of human understanding. Art bears the same relationship to society that the dream bears to mental life. You are very creative when you are dreaming. That is why, when you remember a dream, you think, “Where in the world did that come from?” It is very strange and incomprehensible that something can happen in your head, and you have no idea how it got there or what it means. It is a miracle: nature’s voice manifesting itself in your psyche. And it happens every night. Like art, the dream mediates between order and chaos. So, it is half chaos. That is why it is not comprehensible. It is a vision, not a fully fledged articulated production. Those who actualize those half-born visions into artistic productions are those who begin to transform what we do not understand into what we can at least start to see. That is the role of the artist, occupying the vanguard. That is their biological niche. They are the initial civilizing agents.
— Peterson, Jordan B., Beyond Order (p. 215), |
See also . . .
* Title credit —
Click for a clearer version —
The phrase “Chaos Magic” in the conclusion of last week’s
WandaVision episode suggests . . .
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