… Continues.
Monday, November 28, 2022
Fly from Fly-Bottle…
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Sunday, January 10, 2021
From Fly-Bottle
Illustrations from posts now tagged Ved Mehta in this journal —
Epigraph to Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals ,
by Ved Mehta , remarks first published in The New Yorker in 1961 and 1962 —
See as well the Wallace Stevens phrase “The Ruler of Reality.”
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Friday, September 2, 2022
Sunday, November 7, 2021
Basement Philosophy
From the Los Angeles Review of Books today —
But did he ever find the church basement of Western philosophy?
See http://narthex.site.
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Friday, August 21, 2020
Ludwig Wittgenstein, P.I.
“What is your aim in philosophy?—To show the fly
the way out of the fly-bottle.”
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
“Philosophical Investigations”
Related philosophical investigations —
This morning’s post Gap Dance and a 2012 film . . .
“Three magazine employees head out on an assignment
to interview a guy who placed a classified advertisement
seeking a companion for time travel.” — IMDb
The finished film does not follow the script exactly. (The above
dialogue is rendered more in the spirit of Hunter Thompson.)
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Mehta Physics
Epigraph to Fly and the Fly-Bottle:
Encounters with British Intellectuals ,
by Ved Mehta , remarks first published
in The New Yorker in 1961 and 1962 —
See as well the Wallace Stevens phrase “The Ruler of Reality.”
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Lovasz Wins Kyoto Prize
From a June 18 press release—
KYOTO, Japan, Jun 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The non-profit Inamori Foundation (President: Dr. Kazuo Inamori) today announced that Dr. Laszlo Lovasz will receive its 26th annual Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, which for 2010 focuses on the field of Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Lovasz, 62, a citizen of both Hungary and the United States, will receive the award for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of both the academic and technological possibilities of the mathematical sciences.
Dr. Lovasz currently serves as both director of the Mathematical Institute at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest and as president of the International Mathematics Union. Among many positions held throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Lovasz also served as a senior research member at Microsoft Research Center and as a professor of computer science at Yale University.
Related material: Cube Space, 1984-2003.
See also “Kyoto Prize” in this journal—
The Kyoto Prize is “administered by the Inamori Foundation, whose president, Kazuo Inamori, is founder and chairman emeritus of Kyocera and KDDI Corporation, two Japanese telecommunications giants.”
— – Montreal Gazette, June 20, 2008
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Friday July 11, 2008
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The HSBC Logo Designer — Henry Steiner
Born in Austria and raised in New York, Steiner was educated at Yale under Paul Rand and attended the Sorbonne as a Fulbright Fellow. He is a past President of Alliance Graphique Internationale. Other professional affiliations include the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Chartered Society of Designers, Design Austria, and the New York Art Directors' Club. His Cross-Cultural Design: Communicating in the Global Marketplace was published by Thames and Hudson (1995). |
He is an internationally recognized corporate identity consultant. Based in Hong Kong, his work for clients such as HongkongBank, IBM and Unilever is a major influence in Pacific Rim design.
Related material
from the past —
from the past —
Charles Taylor,
"… the object sets up
See also Talking of Michelangelo.
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Related material
from today —
Escape from a
cartoon graveyard:
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Saturday June 21, 2008
for lifetime achievement
in arts and philosophy
this year goes to
Charles Taylor,
Montreal philosophy professor.
“The Kyoto Prize has been given in three domains since 1984:
advanced technology, basic sciences, and the arts and philosophy.
It is administered by the Inamori Foundation, whose president,
Kazuo Inamori, is founder and chairman emeritus of Kyocera and
KDDI Corporation, two Japanese telecommunications giants.”
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“The Kyocera brand symbol is composed of a corporate mark |
Related material —
Charles Taylor,
“Epiphanies of Modernism,”
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) —
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
See also Talking of Michelangelo.
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