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Friday, May 26, 2023

Capilla Abierta : An Exercise in Bulk Apperception

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:36 am

The previous post suggests a review . . .

'Saddle Chapel' at Cuernavaca

The above remarks on topology  are, of course, about as well-informed
as the remarks of Barry Mazur on locales .

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Apperception for Newton

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:50 am

"So we beat on, boats against the current…"
The Great Gatsby

Thandie Newton in "Reminiscence" (2021) —

The above Screen Rant article is from August 20, 2021.

From that same date —

Saturday, January 22, 2022

“Adapting our powers of apperception”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:38 am

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:

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Only Connect :  Bulk Apperception* Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:49 am

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

Annals of Bulk Apperception: Dark Tide

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:58 pm

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Apperception

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:00 pm

From BUtterfield 8 (1960) —

Elizabeth Taylor in 'BUtterfield 8' (1960)

From the 7/20/2017 post "Divided Attention" —

Another phrase for divided  attention is "bulk apperception."

Friday, May 31, 2019

Bulk Apperception

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:38 pm

(Continued)

Friday, June 2, 2017

Bulk Apperception Continued

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:19 pm

Also on April 26, 2017 —

Thursday, March 16, 2017

“Bulk Apperception”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:01 pm

"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, July 11, 2022

Glamour Meets Grammar

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:42 pm

Monday, April 18, 2022

For the Church of Perfect Coordinates*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:22 pm

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.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

New-Age Trinity

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:21 pm

"Taken together, vibemood, and energy  formed
something like a loose philosophical system.
They presented the world as a swirl of forces
that eluded capture in rational thought, but that
could nevertheless be acutely sensed and even
influenced with the right kind of effort."

— Mitch Therieau in The Drift , Jan. 19, 2022 —

https://www.thedriftmag.com/vibe-mood-energy/ .

See as well Pacific Rimming and Black Sparrow.

Related cinematic lore:

Cailee Spaeny and The Drift in "Pacific Rim: Uprising," as well as . . .

Related tune:   "Gimme the Beat Boys."

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Update of 4:16 PM ET Friday, Jan. 21, 2021 —

From https://dash.harvard.edu/
bitstream/handle/1/39988028/
GRIETZER-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf

Ambient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, System

A dissertation presented by Peli Grietzer
to The Department of Comparative Literature
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
the subject of Comparative Literature,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
November 2017 —

[Edited to emphasize key notions] 

"On the picture that I am suggesting, there exists a reciprocity  between

the structure of our sensibility or sensible cognition (system),

the structure of our affective life or social experience (mood),

and the structure of our social-material performance or production (style/vibe)

— a reciprocity whose approximate equilibrium or ‘metastable state’ binds
the
cognitive, affective, and material aspects of life into a coherent lifeworld
or ‘totality.’ One way to tell the story of this reciprocity is as follows. The system
of our sensibility—our faculty of sensuous cognition that discloses objects, properties,
and patterns—recapitulates the structure of the social-material world. We continuously
calibrate our sensibility by attuning it to our social-material world’s dominant patterns
and forms, adapting our powers of apperception to the task of navigating our
social-material world." (Pp. 145-146.)

Compare and contrast the following trinities:

Related tune — Meat Loaf at the Ryman"Two out of three ain't bad."

Friday, January 7, 2022

How Deep the Rabbit Hole

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:20 pm

See as well "Bulk Apperception ."

Friday, August 20, 2021

Diamond Brackets*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:57 am

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.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Maeve’s Line

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:30 pm

Sunday, December 23, 2018

See!

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:40 pm

An exercise in bulk apperception.

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

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Mira and the Intruders* Present …

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:11 pm

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

IMAGE- Cathy Hull, detail from cover of Hillman's 'The Dream and the Underworld'

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

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:28 am

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, December 26, 2017

Stoned: A Reading for St. Stephen’s Day

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:22 am

See also Log24 posts now tagged Apperception.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Midnight Special

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 am

Primitive roots modulo 17

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:54 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:12 pm

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

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:27 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:21 pm

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
 :

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