Happy Birthday to Kate Beckinsale from Carl Jung.
Related philosophy —
“It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be a mere sequence….”
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Dirty Dancing Disco
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Sunday, February 21, 2016
Orson Card
The title is from the name of a character in a new novel.
The title is also the name of a noted author.
Related material from April 2, 2009 —
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"It seems, as one becomes older, — T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
"Note that at first, you can see the 'arrow of time.' — "The Ehrenfest Chains," by Kyle Siegrist, ex. 16 |
For a different Orson, click on "the direction of time."
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Monday, November 9, 2015
The Forever Now
The title is that of a recent Museum of Modern Art exhibition —
The Forever Now :
Contemporary Painting
in an Atemporal World
December 14, 2014 – April 5, 2015
Related art —
Click the above image for its occurrences in this journal.
Whether this image has, in art critic Peter Schjeldahl's words,
"symbolic force and function," the reader may decide.
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Sunday, December 14, 2014
Time, Space, Code
Some words and an image related to today's posts —
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Happy Birthday to …
Click the image below for some background.
The above image illustrates an equivalence* between sequential and simultaneous points of view.
The sequential point of view says "Do," the simultaneous point of view says "Be."
And then there is the Sinatra point of view—
"The fundamental unity of the Sequency and Simultaneity points of view became plain; the concept of interval served to connect the static and the dynamic aspect of the universe. How could he have stared at reality for ten years and not seen it? There would be no trouble at all in going on. Indeed he had already gone on. He was there."
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)
"It turned out so right… for strangers in the night."
* Based on a boustrophedonic folding.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Thursday April 2, 2009
In memory of
physics historian
Martin J. Klein,
(June 25, 1924-
March 28, 2009)
"… in physics itself, there was what appeared, briefly, to be an ending, which then very quickly gave way to a new beginning: The quest for the ultimate building-blocks of the universe had been taken down to the molecular level in nineteenth-century kinetic theory… and finally to the nuclear level in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. For a moment in the 1920s the quest appeared to have ended…. However… this paradise turned out to be, if not exactly a fool's paradise, then perhaps an Eden lost."
— No Truth Except in the Details: Essays in Honor of Martin J. Klein, introduction by A.J. Kox and Daniel Siegel, June 25, 1994
New York Times obituary dated April 1, 2009:
"Martin J. Klein, a historian of modern physics…. died Saturday, [March 28, 2009] in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 84 and lived in Chapel Hill."
Klein edited, among other things, Paul Ehrenfest: Collected Scientific Papers (publ. by North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1959).
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Related material:
"Almost every famous chess game
is a well-wrought urn
in Cleanth Brooks’ sense."
— John Holbo,
Now We See
Wherein Lies the Pleasure
"The entire sequence of moves in these… chapters reminds one– or should remind one– of a certain type of chess problem where the point is not merely the finding of a mate in so many moves, but what is termed 'retrograde analysis'…."
— Vladimir Nabokov, foreword to The Defense
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Thursday March 19, 2009
Two-Face
[Note: Janus is Roman, not Greek, and
the photo is from one “Fubar Obfusco”]
Click on image for details. From January 8:
[Note: Janus is Roman, not Greek, and
the photo is from one “Fubar Obfusco”]
Click on image for details. From January 8:
Religion and Narrative, continued:
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Context:
Notes on Mathematics and Narrative
(entries in chronological order,
March 13 through 19)
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Thursday January 8, 2009
A Public Square
In memory of
Richard John Neuhaus,
who died today at 72:
“It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be a mere sequence….”
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
See also The Folding.
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Saturday April 26, 2008
Mere Philosophy
In Memory of
Edmund Husserl
“Mereology (from the Greek μερος, ‘part’)
is the theory of parthood relations:
of the relations of part to whole and the
relations of part to part within a whole.
Its roots can be traced back to
the early days of philosophy….”
is the theory of parthood relations:
of the relations of part to whole and the
relations of part to part within a whole.
Its roots can be traced back to
the early days of philosophy….”
— Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Beauty is the proper conformity
of the parts to one another
and to the whole.”
— Classic definition quoted
by Werner Heisenberg
(Log24, May 18-20, 2005)
“It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be a mere sequence….”
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
See also Time Fold
and Theme and Variations.
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