"The Algebra Project was born.
The project was a five-step philosophy of teaching
that can be applied to any concept, he wrote,
including physical experience, pictorial representation,
people talk (explain it in your own words), feature talk
(put it into proper English) and symbolic representation."
"He wrote" —
See pages 120-122 in . . .
Variations on the title theme —
Midrash for the late Harold Bloom,
author of The Daemon Knows —
It is perhaps not irrelevant that the phrase "on Saturday" in the
Los Angeles Times of Sunday, October 18, 2020, refers to the
preceding day — October 17, 2020. See too that date here.
Related material —
— November 2020
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
For fans of mathematics and narrative —
Some may fancy Bloom as a dybbuk (cf, "A Serious Man") turning
the page in the article above to the next page, 1590 —
* “Canonicity” is a reference to the previous post.
See as well Tetrahedron vs. Square and Algebra for Schoolgirls.
“Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature of modern science
is the emergence of abstract symbolic structures as the hard core
of objectivity behind— as Eddington puts it— the colorful tale of
the subjective storyteller mind.”
— Hermann Weyl, Philosophy of Mathematics and
Natural Science , Princeton, 1949, p. 237
Harvard University Press on the late Angus Fletcher, author of
The Topological Imagination and Colors of the Mind —
From the Harvard webpage for Colors of the Mind —
Angus Fletcher is one of our finest theorists of the arts,
the heir to I. A. Richards, Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye.
This… book… aims to open another field of study:
how thought— the act, the experience of thinking—
is represented in literature.
. . . .
Fletcher’s resources are large, and his step is sure.
The reader samples his piercing vision of Milton’s
Satan, the original Thinker,
leaving the pain of thinking
as his legacy for mankind.
A 1992 review by Vinay Dharwadker of Colors of the Mind —
See also the above word "dianoia" in The Echo in Plato's Cave.
Some context …
This post was suggested by a memorial piece today in
the Los Angeles Review of Books —
A Florilegium for Angus Fletcher
By Kenneth Gross, Lindsay Waters, V. N. Alexander,
Paul Auster, Harold Bloom, Stanley Fish, K. J. Knoespel,
Mitchell Meltzer, Victoria Nelson, Joan Richardson,
Dorian Sagan, Susan Stewart, Eric Wilson, Michael Wood
Fletcher reportedly died on November 28, 2016.
"I learned from Fletcher how to apprehend
the daemonic element in poetic imagination."
— Harold Bloom in today's Los Angeles florilegium
For more on Bloom and the daemonic, see a Log24 post,
"Interpenetration," from the date of Fletcher's death.
Some backstory: Dharwadker in this journal.
From posts now tagged “Memory-History-Geometry” —
“… even the dogs under the table
eat the children’s crumbs.” — Mark 7:28
From a 2015 post …
“… Kansas and Harvard officially met
as Kansas wrestled the unsuspecting Harvard
to the ground in a headlock.”
— Harvard Heart of Gold , by Dustin Aguilar,
quoted here on April 24, 2015
For the dogs under the table, a note from that same date —
See as well Tom Wolfe on manifestos
and “the creative spirit.”
Click here to enlarge.
Update of 4:00 PM —
See also this journal on Sunday morning and
Bill Murray's "Razor's Edge."
Or: A Candle for Sunrise
Commentary —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”
Or: Notes for the Metaphysical Club
Northrop Frye on Wallace Stevens:
"He… stands in contrast to the the dualistic
approach of Eliot, who so often speaks of poetry
as though it were an emotional and sensational
soul looking for a 'correlative' skeleton of
thought to be provided by a philosopher, a
Cartesian ghost trying to find a machine that
will fit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson on "vacant and vain" knowledge:
"The new position of the advancing man has all
the powers of the old, yet has them all new. It
carries in its bosom all the energies of the past,
yet is itself an exhalation of the morning. I cast
away in this new moment all my once hoarded
knowledge, as vacant and vain."
Harold Bloom on Emerson:
"Emerson may not have invented the American
Sublime, yet he took eternal possession of it."
Wallace Stevens on the American Sublime:
"And the sublime comes down
To the spirit itself,
The spirit and space,
The empty spirit
In vacant space."
A founding member of the Metaphysical Club:
See also the eightfold cube.
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