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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Molloy/Malloy: An Even Break

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Molloy  Malloy :

https://genius.com/Dave-malloy-v-fugue-state-lyrics —

See also Ogdoad / Octet.

Duncan Quicksilver

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:58 pm

Duncan reportedly died on June 29.  See Log24 on that date.

Waiting for Ogdoad

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See also Ogdoad and 2×4.

Depth Psychology Meets Inscape Geometry

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:00 am

An illustration from the previous post may be interpreted
as an attempt to unbokeh  an inscape

The 15 lines above are Euclidean  lines based on pairs within a six-set. 
For examples of Galois  lines so based, see Six-Set Geometry:

Monday, July 1, 2019

Inside the Exploded Cube

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Metaphysical conceit | literature | Britannica.com

https://www.britannica.com/art/metaphysical-conceit

The metaphysical conceit, associated with the Metaphysical poets of the 17th century, is a more intricate and intellectual device. It usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem.…

This post's title refers to a metaphysical conceit 
in the previous post, Desperately Seeking Clarity.

Related material —

The source of the above mystical octahedron —

'Becoming Whole,' by Leslie Stein

      See also Jung's Imago Dei  in this journal.

Desperately Seeking Clarity

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Continued)

"Let us consider the crux of Hopkins' sensibility…"

Marshall McLuhan, 1944

Seeking claritas :

From a "cube tales" post of June 21

The number "six" in the second tale above counts faces  of the cube,
as shown in a post of June 23

 .

". . . Then the universe exploded into existence . . . ."

“The Ontological Secret”

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The phrase "ontological secret" is from 1927 —

" Beauty is thus 'a flashing of intelligence…
on a matter intelligibly arranged' or, as Maritain
adds in the 1927 edition of Art and Scholasticism ,
it is 'the ontological secret that [things] bear within
them[selves], their spiritual being, their operating
mystery.' "

— John G. Trapani, Jr., "'Radiance': The Metaphysical Foundations
of Maritain's Aesthetics," pp. 11-19 in Beauty, Art, and the Polis ,
ed. by Alice Ramos, publ. by American Maritain Association, 2000.

This 1927 phrase may be the source of McLuhan's 1944
"ontological secret" —

From a search in this  journal for "Object of Beauty" —

“She never looked up while her mind rotated the facts,
trying to see them from all sides, trying to piece them
together into theory. All she could think was that she
was flunking an IQ test.”

— Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Creepy Peepers

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In memory of Susan Bernard , who reportedly died on June 21, 2019* 

Image from the 2016 post A Paris Review . . .

* See as well this  journal on June 21,
  "Cube Tales for Solstice Day."

Euclid Peeping

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Ex Fano* Continues

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Yesterday's post The Benson Epiphany suggests a review of another
retired UC Davis mathematics professor who also died in May
John Robert Chuchel —

UC Davis mathematics students may consult the following page:

A check of this  journal on the date of Chuchel's reported death
yields posts now tagged Hallows for UC Davis.

* See Ex Fano Apollinis  (June 24).

Saturday, June 29, 2019

That’s “Merry” … And Quite Contrary

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"John Horton Conway is a cross between
Archimedes, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dalí." 

The Guardian  paraphrasing Siobhan Roberts, 
                    

John Horton Conway and his Leech lattice doodle
in The Guardian . Photo: Hollandse Hoogte/Eyevine.

. . . .

"In junior school, one of Conway’s teachers had nicknamed him 'Mary'.
He was a delicate, effeminate creature. Being Mary made his life
absolute hell until he moved on to secondary school, at Liverpool’s
Holt High School for Boys. Soon after term began, the headmaster
called each boy into his office and asked what he planned to do with
his life. John said he wanted to read mathematics at Cambridge.
Instead of 'Mary' he became known as 'The Prof'. These nicknames
confirmed Conway as a terribly introverted adolescent, painfully aware
of his own suffering."  — Siobhan Roberts, loc. cit.

From the previous post

See as well this  journal on the above Guardian  date —

 

The Benson Epiphany

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Friday, June 28, 2019

A Velvet Buzzsaw*

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Logo of the Santa Fe Institute

* See posts tagged The Malkovich Pictures.

Plato and the Illiterate Guardian

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"Leibniz … could also be called the first digerati."
The Guardian , May 10, 2013

"Digerati" is a term modeled after "literati"  —

Example —


See also this  journal on the above
Guardian  date 10 May 2013.

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Prayers and Thoughts, Hearts and Minds

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:09 pm

See also Hard Candy.

Bloomsday Story

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:51 pm

See as well Bloomsday in this  journal.

The Storm Enchantment

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"And Windy has stormy eyes"

Group Actions on the 4x4x4 Cube

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For affine  group actions, see Ex Fano Appollinis  (June 24)
and Solomon's Cube.

For one approach to Mathieu  group actions on a 24-cube subset
of the 4x4x4 cube, see . . .

For a different sort of Mathieu cube, see Aitchison.

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Intellectual Obsession: The Frankfurt School

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Coo-Coo-Ca-Choo*

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"Goin' to the candidates' debate" — Paul Simon

* Gesundheit .

Loop

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Illustration from a post of June 21, 2010 —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100621-VisualizingDetail.gif

Welcome

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:44 pm

Make that Gorham .

Plan 9 from Stephen King

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Midrash by T. S. Eliot —

See Apple Tree Children.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Art Installation

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Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —

Not so useless —

The caption in fine print below says
"Download Blender and install it.
I won't show you how to do that 
because I don't want to insult your
intelligence…."

Maeve’s Line

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Rhetorical Question, Rhetorical Answer

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Q —

"What kind of person
bokehs an inscape?" 


A —

Robert Gorham Davis:

McLuhan's " 'mosaic' mode of presentation
rules out discriminations, qualifications,
close reasoning, the structuring of
articulated wholes."

Robert Gorham Davis on Marshall McLuhan.

See also Articulation  in this  journal.

Medium and Message

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Analogy

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Monday, June 24, 2019

Ex Fano Apollinis

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Da Capo*

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The Small quotation is from a page describing his transcription
for string quartet of Bach's Goldberg Variations:

https://manontroppomusic.wordpress.com/goldberg-variations/.

* See too other Log24 occurrences of "da capo." 

Loop de Loop

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:48 am

From a New Yorker  theatre review posted at 5 AM ET today —

“A Strange Loop” takes its title from a concept pioneered by
Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive-science professor who
wrote the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
and, later, the more focussed study “I Am a Strange Loop”;
both were premised upon the impossibly complex, hopelessly
circular means by which each of us composes a self, an “I.”

See as well "Strange Loop" and "Loop de Loop" in this  journal.

A Tale

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In memory of John Clarkeson, Harvard ’64, who “read broadly and inquisitively,
and was always on the lookout for a good tale….” Clarkeson reportedly died
on May 28, 2019.

Some Harvard-related material from that date:  The Hogwash Papers.

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Verbum Sat

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Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —

Related art —

Escher, 'Verbum,' detail

Click image for further details.

Discovery

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:25 am

See also Boorstin in this journal.

In Hoc Signo

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For Zankel Hall

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:23 am

See also other posts now tagged For Zankel Hall.
(Note the phrase "geometric complexities" in those posts.)

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Variations

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Friday, June 21, 2019

Cube Tales for Solstice Day

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:45 pm

See also "Six-Set" in this journal
and "Cube Geometry Continues."

 
 

Cubehenge

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Thursday, June 20, 2019

The Lively Hallows

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Structure of the eightfold cube

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Slouching

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:50 pm

The phrase "various other activities" in the previous post, and a poem
by Yeats, suggest an image that appeared here in miniature on June 7:

See as well some related artistic images from January 4, 2007.

June 10 Death

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:35 pm

See also posts now tagged The Loosening Center (June 8 – June 11).

 

Diagram

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This post was suggested by the July 2006 posts now tagged Crazy Diamond.

The Panhandle Project

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"When they all finally reach their destination —
a deserted field in the Florida Panhandle…." 

" When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney movie 
Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world that exists in an
alternative dimension
, Nichols sighed. 'I was a little bummed, I guess,'
he said of when he first learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast.
Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in,
sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The 7/11 Manifesto

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:07 pm

See 7/11, 2006.

Related material — Dabblers in the Collective Unconscious.

The Crooning

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For fans of the story theory of truth  

 A "tale as old as time . . ."
 — Song lyric,  Beauty and the Beast

Nicholas Hoult as X-Men "Beast" Hank McCoy

See also the previous post, "Equals Tolkien?"

Related material The real  McCoy

Equals Tolkien?

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Paris Review

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"The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay." — Song lyric

Stewart also starred in "Equals" (2016). From a synopsis —

"Stewart plays Nia, a writer who works at a company that extols
the virtues of space exploration in a post-apocalyptic society.
She falls in love with the film's main character, Silas (Nicholas Hoult),
an illustrator . . . ."

Space art in The Paris Review

For a different sort of space exploration, see Eightfold 1984.

June Moon Croon

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Monday, June 17, 2019

The Callahan Turtle

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By Stephen King

IMAGE- Herbert John Ryser, 'Combinatorial Mathematics' (1963), page 1

Salvation by Grace

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High Society

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From the date in the above Google search result —

 See as well Jeremy Gray in this  journal.

Sunday, June 16, 2019

Master Plan from Outer Space

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IMAGE- The large Desargues configuration and Desargues's theorem in light of Galois geometry

Eliot’s Perpetual Motion Structure*

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From a date described by Peter Woit in his post
Not So Spooky Action at a Distance” (June 11) —

See also The Lost Well.

 * “As a Chinese jar….” — Four Quartets

Saturday, June 15, 2019

Actionable Daydream

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:26 pm

— Kastalia Medrano, "The Art of Space Art," Sept. 14, 2017

Ghost in the Shell

Director’s Cut

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Nature Hike

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Rex Reed yesterday

"Tilda Swinton is Zelda, the undertaker who worships a gold statue
of Buddha and collects samurai swords. She seems to know
what’s going on, but she’s too busy acting weird to tell." 

Al Gore on May 29

“We have to restore the role of reason and logic and rational debate,”
Gore said. “Every night on the news is like a nature hike through the
Book of Revelation.” — Harvard Gazette  reporting Class Day 2019

Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —

Dr. Strange at beyondtheopposites.com on 2016/12/02

Thursday, June 13, 2019

The Reality Blocks

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The new Log24 tag "Eightfold Metaphysics" used in the previous post
suggests a review of posts that were tagged "The Reality Blocks" on May 24.

Then there is, of course, the May 24 death of Murray Gell-Mann, who
hijacked from Buddhism the phrase "eightfold way."

See Gell-Mann in this journal and May 24, 2003.

Seeing the Seing

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The phrase "experimental metaphysics" appeared in Peter Woit's weblog on June 11.
Google reveals that . . .

" 'experimental metaphysics' is a term coined by Abner Shimony …."

Shimony reportedly died on August 8, 2015.  Also on that date —

Update of April 6, 2022 (Click to enlarge) —

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

The Osterman Haiku

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:32 pm

Click on the book cover below for posts tagged "Haiku."

IMAGE- 'Point Omega' by DeLillo

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Carousel

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:25 pm

"This was a real nice clam house."
— Adapted from lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein

Relish

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"Center loosens, forms again elsewhere." — Roger Zelazny

See also an image in memory of the Coppertone artist
from a post of May 18, 2006

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix06A/060517-StarAndDiamond.bmp” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

“My God, it’s
full of stars!”

Monday, June 10, 2019

Revelations of a Transcendental Subject

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(Namely, Plato's ghost)

Background: "Transcendental subject" is Kant's term for, more or less, the self.

Rosalind Krauss in 1978 —

"To get inside the systems of this work,
whether LeWitt's or Judd's or Morris's,
is precisely to enter
a world without a center,
a world of substitutions and transpositions 
nowhere legitimated by the revelations
of a transcendental subject. This is the strength
of this work, its seriousness, and its claim to modernity." 

More from Krauss —

A book by an author with somewhat wider "cultural experience" —

See also "Plato's Diamond" in this journal.

Saturday, June 8, 2019

Nowhere Legitimated

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Art Object, continued and continued

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:21 pm

Notes on a remark by Chuanming Zong

See as well posts mentioning "An Object of Beauty."

Update of 12 AM June 11 — A screenshot of this post 
is now available at  http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/hqk7-nx97 .

Friday, June 7, 2019

Language Association

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:16 am

See also William Boyd in this  journal.

Photo Opportunity

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A post for those who, like Paul Simon,
fear and loathe cartoon graveyards 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/obituaries/
rudolf-von-ribbentrop-dead.html

Thursday, June 6, 2019

The News from Storyville

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:53 pm

Update of 11:16 PM ET —

Projective Partitions

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:00 pm

See also a note of Dec. 4, 1986.

Strange Dots

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(Continued)

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Time Cube

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The opening lines of Eliot's Four Quartets

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."

Perhaps.

Those who prefer geometry to rhetoric may also prefer
to Eliot's lines the immortal opening of the Transformers  saga —

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

One version of the Cube —

The Tigerman Kaballah

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 4:00 am

See also Life of Pi   in this  journal.

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Zen and the Art

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Or:  Burning Bright

A post in memory of Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman,
who reportedly died at 88 on Monday.

Temple Bell

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Art suggested by a search in this journal for Bennington, by the Kurt Vonnegut
novel Timequake , and by the works of Eric Temple Bell.

Inside Out

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For fans of Space Fleet  and of "reclusive but gifted" programmers

“Hello the Camp”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:20 am

The title is a quotation from the 2015 film "Mojave."

Monday, June 3, 2019

No Serious Difficulty

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:13 pm

See as well a Log24 search for "FInite Relativity."

University Square

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For Radu Surdulescu, who . . .

"participated in the 1956 reclamatory movements 
of the students in Bucharest
He was among the
organizers of the demonstration to be held in
the University Square on November 5, 1956."

Wikipedia (Google translation from Romanian)

See also squares and Surdulescu in "From Tate to Plato"
(Log24, November 19, 2004).

Those who prefer fiction  may consult William Boyd and
Terry Gilliam.

Art Wars for Spaceheads

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From a post of May 23

From the annals of Space Fleet

See as well the previous post.

Jar Story

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(Continued)

  “. . . Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.”

— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

From Writing Chinese Characters:

“It is practical to think of a character centered
within an imaginary square grid . . . .
The grid can be subdivided, usually to
9 or 16 squares. . . .

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix04B/041119-ZhongGuo.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

These “Chinese jars” (as opposed to their contents)
are as follows:

Grids, 3x3 and 4x4 .

See as well Eliot’s 1922 remarks on “extinction of personality”
and the phrase “ego-extinction” in Weyl’s Philosophy of Mathematics

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Coordinatizing the Deathly Hallows

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:59 pm

See as well, in this journal, Deathly HallowsRelativity Problem, and Space Cross.

A related quote "This is not mathematics; this is theology."

Interpenetration

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A remark on coordinatization linked to by John Baez today —

This suggests a more historical perspective:

See as well a search for Interpenetration in this  journal.

The Art of Lying

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:13 pm

(Continued … See “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?” by Mario Vargas Llosa, 
New York Times  essay of October 7, 1984.)

"A non-fiction writer must have the freedom
to imagine the facts they [sic ] use."

Sure they must.

Working Backward

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

The title is from a search in this journal  
http://www.m759.net/wordpress/?s=1982+Janine .

"And all the clocks were striking thirteen."

Opening Statement

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Click to enlarge.

Bustin’ Out All Over

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In memory of June Havoc . . .

"In 1960, Havoc was honored with two stars
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one at
6618 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions
to the motion picture industry, and the other at
6413 Hollywood Boulevard for television."

"Bustin' Out All Over"

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Cuboctahedron Labeling Update

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See this evening's update to the May 31 post
"Working Sketch of Aitchison’s Mathieu Cuboctahedron" —

". . . And then of course  there is the obvious  labeling derived from
the  permutahedron —"

What’s in a Name

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Speaking of Dreams…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:06 pm

"Points all her own" — Bob Seger

Crystals for Dabblers

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The title was suggested by the "Crystal Cult" installations
of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche and by a post of May 30 —

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Dabbling

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Jeff Nichols, director of Midnight Special  (2016) —

"When asked about the film's similarities to
the 2015 Disney movie Tomorrowland , which
also posits a futuristic world that exists in an
alternative dimension, Nichols sighed.
'I was a little bummed, I guess,' he said of
when he first learned about the project. . . . 
'Our die was cast. Sometimes this kind of 
collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in,
sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

See also Jung's four-diamond figure and the previous post.

Writers of fiction are, of course, also dabblers in the collective unconscious.
For instance . . .

A 1971 British paperback edition of The Dreaming Jewels,  
a story by Theodore Sturgeon (first version published in 1950):

The above book cover, together with the Death Valley location
Zabriskie Point, suggests . . .

Those less enchanted by the collective unconscious may prefer a
different weblog's remarks on the same date as the above Borax post . . .

Friday, May 31, 2019

Bulk Apperception

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(Continued)

De Niro’s Gallerist

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A phrase from Wikipedia

"De Niro's gallerist, Virginia Zabriskie."

Zabriskie reportedly died on May 7.

In memoriam — Jar Story.

Working Sketch of Aitchison’s Mathieu Cuboctahedron

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:33 am

Cuboctahedron with its 24 edges labeled by the 24 permutations of a 4-set. By Cullinane on 5/31/19.

The above sketch indicates one way to apply the elements of S4
to the Aitchison cuboctahedron . It is a rough sketch illustrating a
correspondence between four edge-hexagons and four label-sets.
The labeling is not as neat as that of a permutahedron  by S4
shown below, but can perhaps be improved.

Permutahedron labeled by S4 .

 

Update of 9 PM EDT June 1, 2019 —

. . . And then of course  there is the obvious  labeling derived from 
the above permutahedron —

 
 

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Dabbling

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:02 pm

Jeff Nichols, director of Midnight Special  (2016) —

"When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney
movie Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world
that exists in an alternative dimension, Nichols sighed.
'I was a little bummed, I guess,' he said of when he first
learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast.
Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that
we're all dabbling in, sometimes you're not the first one
out of the gate.' "

See also Jung's four-diamond figure and the previous post.

Stiff

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"The stiffest material around is diamond.
The strength and lightness of a material
depends on the number and strength of
the bonds that hold its atoms together,
and on the lightness of the atoms.
The element that best fits both criteria
is carbon, which is lightweight and forms
stronger bonds than any other atom.
The carbon-carbon bond is especially
strong; each carbon atom can bond to
four neighboring atoms. In diamond,
then, a dense network of strong bonds
creates a strong, light, and stiff material.
Indeed, just as we named the Stone Age,
the Bronze Age, and the Steel Age after
the materials that humans could make,
we might call the new technological epoch
we are entering the Diamond Age."
[Link added.]

— "It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World,"
by Ralph C. Merkle, 
MIT Technology Review , Feb./Mar. 1997

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Hogwash for Brattlefilm

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:54 pm

Related material — Khurana in this journal and
in The Harvard Crimson .

“Simplification in Its Purest Form”

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For students of the Hogwash School of Witchcraft and Wizardry —

"Elementary particles are the most fundamental
building blocks of nature, and their study
would seem to be an expression of simplification
in its purest form." 

— Sean Carroll in The New York Times  today 
in an opinion piece titled "The Physicist Who
Made Sense of the Universe"

Related remarks:  See a Log24 search for "Simpli".

The Khurana Embarrassment

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:36 pm

(A title for Harlan Kane)

Quaternion at Candlebrow

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From a Groundhog Day post in 2009 —

The Candlebrow Conference
in Pynchon's Against the Day:

The conferees had gathered here from all around the world…. Their spirits all one way or another invested in, invested by, the siegecraft of Time and its mysteries.

"Fact is, our system of so-called linear time is based on a circular or, if you like, periodic phenomenon– the earth's own spin. Everything spins, up to and including, probably, the whole universe. So we can look to the prairie, the darkening sky, the birthing of a funnel-cloud to see in its vortex the fundamental structure of everything–"

Quaternion in finite geometry
Quaternion  by  S. H. Cullinane

"Um, Professor–"….

… Those in attendance, some at quite high speed, had begun to disperse, the briefest of glances at the sky sufficing to explain why. As if the professor had lectured it into being, there now swung from the swollen and light-pulsing clouds to the west a classic prairie "twister"….

… In the storm cellar, over semiliquid coffee and farmhouse crullers left from the last twister, they got back to the topic of periodic functions….

"Eternal Return, just to begin with. If we may construct such functions in the abstract, then so must it be possible to construct more secular, more physical expressions."

"Build a time machine."

"Not the way I would have put it, but if you like, fine."

Vectorists and Quaternionists in attendance reminded everybody of the function they had recently worked up….

"We thus enter the whirlwind. It becomes the very essence of a refashioned life, providing the axes to which everything will be referred. Time no long 'passes,' with a linear velocity, but 'returns,' with an angular one…. We are returned to ourselves eternally, or, if you like, timelessly."

"Born again!" exclaimed a Christer in the gathering, as if suddenly enlightened.

Above, the devastation had begun.

"As if the professor had lectured it into being . . . ."

See other posts now tagged McLuhan Time.

Monday, May 27, 2019

But Seriously . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:32 pm

McLuhan on Analogy.

I prefer the simple "four dots" figure
of the double colon:

For those who prefer stranger analogies . . .

Actors from "The Eiger Sanction" —

Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —

Dr. Strange at beyondtheopposites.com on 2016/12/02

See as well this  journal on the above Strange date, 2016/12/02,
in posts tagged Lumber Room.

Misery Emissary: A Thurston Memorial

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The Broom Bridge Eight

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:12 pm

"In this way the eight quaternions came into being."

— Legend adapted from Richard Wilhelm.

See as well The Bond with Reality (20th of May, 2019).

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Nine-Dot Patterns

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 pm

Some nine-dot patterns of greater interest:

IMAGE- Actions of the unit quaternions in finite geometry, on a ninefold square and on an eightfold cube

Sunday Shul: Connecting the Dots

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"It's very easy to say, 'Well, Jeff couldn't quite connect these dots,'"
director Jeff Nichols told BuzzFeed News. "Well, I wasn't actually
looking at the dots you were looking at."

— Posted on March 21, 2016, at 1:11 p.m,
Adam B. Vary, BuzzFeed News Reporter

"Magical arrays of numbers have been the talismans of mathematicians and mystics since the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. And in the 16th century, Rabbi Isaac ben Solomon Luria devised a cosmological world view that seems to have prefigured superstring theory, at least superficially. Rabbi Luria was a sage of the Jewish cabalist movement — a school of mystics that drew inspiration from the arcane oral tradition of the Torah.

According to Rabbi Luria's cosmology, the soul and inner life of the hidden God were expressed by 10 primordial numbers [sic ], known as the sefirot. [Link added.]"

— "Things Are Stranger Than We Can Imagine,"
by Malcolm W. BrowneNew York Times Book Review ,
Sunday, March 20, 1994

Burning Bright

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Gell-Mann's 'eightfold way' as 'a mosaic of simple triangular building blocks' — George Johnson, 1999

Compare and contrast with . . .

The Brightburn Logo:

Related material from the May 12 post

"The Collective Unconscious
in a Cartoon Graveyard
" —

"When they all finally reach their destination —
a deserted field in the Florida Panhandle…." 

" When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney movie Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world that exists in an alternative dimension, Nichols sighed. 'I was a little bummed, I guess,' he said of when he first learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast. Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in, sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Brand On Breyer

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Or:  One Quark for Muster Mark​

"In this way the eight trigrams came into being." — Richard Wilhelm

Detail:

Midrash:

Friday, May 24, 2019

Mystery at Santa Fe

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A mysterious Google Search result from this evening —

A check of Marshall's announcement reveals an apparent
contradiction to the reported May 24 date of death. Although the
announcement says  that Gell-Mann died on May 24, the announcement
itself is timestamped midnight (00:00) at the beginning  of May 24 
according to Greenwich Mean Time, i.e., at 6 pm May 23 in Santa Fe —


This may or may not help to illustrate the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.

Hidden Eightfold Patterns

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Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

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Stevens and the Hoary Sages

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See also other posts now tagged The Reality Blocks.

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Unix Time

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"Mirror,  Mirror . . ."

The Unix timestamp above is from the HarperCollins piece below.

Fire on the Water

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Related literary remarks from The Crimson Abyss 
(a Log24 post of March 29, 2017) —

Prospero's Children  was first published by HarperCollins,
London, in 1999. A statement by the publisher provides
an instance of the famous "much-needed gap." —

"This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero’s Children 
steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe
  and Clive Barker’s Weaveworld , and
is destined to become a modern classic."

Related imagery from The Crimson Abyss —

See as well posts of June 6, 2004, and May 22, 2004.

May the Fourth for Spaceheads

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An image posted here two years earlier, on May the Fourth, 2017 —

From Betty and Veronica Double Digest #229

           You are not alone.

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

The Toronto Plot*

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* A title for Harlan Kane, suggested by obituaries
from The New York Times  (this afternoon) and from
CBC News (on May 14, below) . . .

. . . as well as by illustrations shown here on May 13 and by
a screenwriter quoted here on May 12 —

“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”

— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times

Another quote that seems relevant —

I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
 — Paul Simon

Cube Geometry Continues.

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An illustration from the April 20, 2016, post

Symmetric Generation of a Simple Group

IMAGE- Bester,'The Stars My Destination' (with cover slightly changed)


"The geometry of unit cubes is a meeting point
 of several different subjects in mathematics."
 — Chuanming ZongBulletin of the American
Mathematical Society 
, January 2005

Iain Aitchison on symmetric generation of M24

Inside the White Cube

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(Continued)

Monday, May 20, 2019

The Bond with Reality

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"The bond with reality is cut."

— Hans Freudenthal, 1962

Indeed it is.

Sunday, May 19, 2019

The Building Blocks of Geometry

From "On the life and scientific work of Gino Fano
by Alberto Collino, Alberto Conte, and Alessandro Verra,
ICCM Notices , July 2014, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 43-57 —

" Indeed, about the Italian debate on foundations of Geometry, it is not rare to read comments in the same spirit of the following one, due to Jeremy Gray13. He is essentially reporting Hans Freudenthal’s point of view:

' When the distinguished mathematician and historian of mathematics Hans Freudenthal analysed Hilbert’s  Grundlagen he argued that the link between reality and geometry appears to be severed for the first time in Hilbert’s work. However, he discovered that Hilbert had been preceded by the Italian mathematician Gino Fano in 1892. . . .' "

13 J. Gray, "The Foundations of Projective Geometry in Italy," Chapter 24 (pp. 269–279) in his book Worlds Out of Nothing , Springer (2010).


Restoring the severed link —

Structure of the eightfold cube

See also Espacement  and The Thing and I.
 

Related material —

 
 

Rural Relativity

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Poem

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"The technical aspects
Were carefully planned,
And the social aspect
Just happened."

Robert Fano

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