See posts now tagged The Bracketing.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Annals of Bulk Apperception:
The Bracketing
The Bracketing
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Annals of Bulk Apperception:
Alice in Dramarama
Alice in Dramarama
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Annals of Bulk Apperception:
Playful and Penetrating
Playful and Penetrating
Friday, May 26, 2023
Capilla Abierta : An Exercise in Bulk Apperception
The previous post suggests a review . . .
The above remarks on topology are, of course, about as well-informed
as the remarks of Barry Mazur on locales .
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Only Connect : Bulk Apperception* Continues.
The above Vanity Fair article was republished on the Web by VF
on September 3, 2013. See also this journal on that date.
Related religious remarks —
* “Bulk apperception” is a phrase from Westworld. See Log24 notes.
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Friday, May 31, 2019
Friday, June 2, 2017
Thursday, March 16, 2017
“Bulk Apperception”
"By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us."
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Random House, 1973, page 118
"Dear boys — We’re going to have some fun, aren’t we?"
— Maeve in "Westworld," Season 1, Episode 6,
after her "bulk apperception" has been upgraded
to the maximum.
"Bulk apperception" is defined in the script as "basically,
overall intelligence." The phrase is apparently unique to "Westworld."
These two words do, however, nearly occur together in
at least one book — Andrew Feffer's The Chicago Pragmatists
and American Progressivism :

Monday, April 18, 2022
For the Church of Perfect Coordinates*
https://blacklistdeclassified.net/2022/04/15/
%f0%9f%94%b4-script-916-helen-maghi/ —
Red: If I may offer some counsel –
“Do not go where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.”
In the spirit of that, I bring an unusual case….
This post is in honor of Thandiwe Newton,
who left a Westworld trail —
Vide Bulk Apperception.
* Cf. a post from Day 3 of 2022.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
“Adapting our powers of apperception”
The title phrase is from the Friday update at the end of
Thursday's "New-Age Trinity" post.
It comes from a November 2017 doctoral thesis at Harvard.
Related philosophical insights —
"Bulk apperception" in this journal, inspired by Maeve of Westworld:
Friday, January 7, 2022
Friday, August 20, 2021
Diamond Brackets*
For more on the phrase "diamond brackets," see the post
Artistic Style of July 24, 2018.
This was the dies natalis (in the Catholic sense) of philosophy
professor Garth L. Kemerling.
From Kemerling's internet "Philosophy Pages" —
"First, it must be possible in principle to arrange and organize
the chaos of our many individual sensory images by tracing
the connections that hold among them. This Kant called
the synthetic unity of the sensory manifold.
Second, it must be possible in principle for a single subject
to perform this organization by discovering the connections
among perceived images. This is satisfied by what Kant called
the transcendental unity of apperception."
Related Log24 phrases —
"Intake Manifold" and "Bulk Apperception."
* See also Bracketing (phenomenology) in Wikipedia.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Mira and the Intruders* Present …
Epiphany 2012: An Exercise
in Bulk Apperception
This post was suggested by . . .
a New Orleans song as played by Bix Beiderbecke,
by a trailer for a new Zemeckis film that appeared at YouTube
on the way to the New Orleans song, and by
the longing for Bix by Mira Sorvino in "Intruders."
The YouTube Bix date, Jan. 6, 2012, suggested a trip back
to that date via a Zemeckis Cube (see "Ready Player One.")
From Log24 on Epiphany 2012 —
A version of the Zemeckis Cube —
From the Zemeckis trailer —
* See a Log24 search for Mira + Intruders.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Raiders of the Lost Images
On the recent film "Justice League" —
From DC Extended Universe Wiki, "Mother Box" —
"However, during World War I, the British rediscovered
mankind's lost Mother Box. They conducted numerous studies
but were unable to date it due to its age. The Box was then
shelved in an archive, up until the night Superman died,
where it was then sent to Doctor Silas Stone, who
recognized it as a perpetual energy matrix. . . ." [Link added.]
The cube shape of the lost Mother Box, also known as the
Change Engine, is shared by the Stone in a novel by Charles Williams,
Many Dimensions . See the Solomon's Cube webpage.
See too the matrix of Claude Lévi-Strauss in posts tagged
Verwandlungslehre .
Some literary background:
Who speaks in primordial images speaks to us
as with a thousand trumpets, he grips and overpowers,
and at the same time he elevates that which he treats
out of the individual and transitory into the sphere of
the eternal. — C. G. JUNG
"In the conscious use of primordial images—
the archetypes of thought—
one modern novelist stands out as adept and
grand master: Charles Williams.
In The Place of the Lion he incarnates Plato’s
celestial archetypes with hair-raising plausibility.
In Many Dimensions he brings a flock of ordinary
mortals face to face with the stone bearing
the Tetragrammaton, the Divine Name, the sign of Four.
Whether we understand every line of a Williams novel
or not, we feel something deep inside us quicken
as Williams tells the tale.
Here, in The Greater Trumps , he has turned to
one of the prime mysteries of earth . . . ."
— William Lindsay Gresham, Preface (1950) to
Charles Williams's The Greater Trumps (1932)
For fans of what the recent series Westworld called "bulk apperception" —
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Midnight Special
From a Log24 search for "Midnight Special."
Update of 12:45 AM the same night —
"I appreciate simple, iconic and timeless forms —
things that can adapt or serve multiple purposes
and avoid being easily labelled. At the same time,
I love parts and fragments that reveal how things
move or work. Mostly, anything that tells its
own story and isn’t generalized or clad in some
sort of ornamental icing."
— Charlottesville, VA, architect Fred Wolf, who seems
to have been associated with the business name
"Gauss LLC " in Charlottesville.
And I appreciate bulk apperception.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Divided Attention
The previous post alluded to the phrase "undivided attention."
An example of divided attention —
The "Orphan Black" scene (at right above) is from a post, "Art's Space,"
of Saturday, July 15, 2017. The themes of the Orphan Black series —
in the context of Silicon Valley, not of Orphan Black — were discussed
in the Los Angeles Review of Books on Monday, July 17, 2017. Other
Silicon Valley themes appear in the recent film "The Circle" (at left above).
Another phrase for divided attention is "bulk apperception."
Friday, June 23, 2017
Annals of Art and Design
The life of Mr. Breder is not unrelated to that of Carl Andre.
See also, in this journal, Bulk Apperception.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Reopening the Tesseract
Dialogue from the film "Interstellar" —
Cooper: Did it work?
TARS: I think it might have.
Cooper: How do you know?
TARS: Because the bulk beings
are closing the tesseract.
Related material — "Bulk apperception"
in this journal, and …
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
About
From a post of March 16, 2017 —
"Bulk apperception" is defined in the Westworld script
as "basically, overall intelligence." The phrase is apparently
unique to Westworld.
These two words do, however, nearly occur together
in at least one book — Andrew Feffer's The Chicago
Pragmatists and American Progressivism :



























