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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Math Rights

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 pm

"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."

The New York Times  today

"He wrote"

See pages 120-122 in . . .

Friday, April 23, 2021

Canonicity

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:26 pm

From a Log24 search for Canonicity

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Raiders of the Lost Coordinates

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:06 pm

Variations on the title theme —

Novus Ordo Seclorum — Harold Bloom and the Tetrahedral Model of PG(3,2)

Friday, November 27, 2020

The Sun-Ra Code

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:24 pm

Friday, October 23, 2020

News from Saint Luke’s Day

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:58 am

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

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Obscure Superlative

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:13 am

From a midrash by Bloom

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Portrait with Holocron

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:08 pm

Novus Ordo Seclorum — Harold Bloom and the Tetrahedral Model of PG(3,2)

Sith Holocron in 'Star Wars Rebels'

For a Jedi  holocron of sorts, see this  journal on the above YouTube date

Saturday, December 7, 2019

Canonicity* Illustrated: The Offensive Tet

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:56 pm

* “Canonicity” is a reference to the previous post.
See as well Tetrahedron vs. Square and Algebra for Schoolgirls.

Monday, July 16, 2018

God and Man at Yale

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:32 am

From a search in this journal for Bloom Sublime

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Colorful Tales

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

“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.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Sunday Dinner Crumbs

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 2:00 pm

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.”

Monday, November 28, 2016

Higgs Boson of the Sublime

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:29 pm

Click here to enlarge.

Update of 4:00 PM —

See also this  journal on Sunday morning and
Bill Murray's  "Razor's Edge."

Interpenetration

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:00 pm

Or:  A Candle for Sunrise  

(Continued)

Commentary —

“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”

— Richard Evan Schwartz

Sunday, November 27, 2016

A Machine That Will Fit

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:00 am

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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